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Meet your Executive Committee
An Executive Committee is elected from the General Council and meets annually. Two members from each continental region are elected from the General Council; a president and vice-president are also elected by the General Council. A president-elect begins a term three years before the handover of responsibilities. The treasurer and general secretary are also members…
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MWC and Tanzania church mourn loss of bishop
Mennonite World Conference mourns alongside its member church, Kanisa la Mennonite Tanzania, following the death of Bishop Steven Mang’ana Watson on 4 March 2021, due to pneumonia. He had served our global family by representing Africa on the MWC Executive Committee since 2015. Steven Mang’ana Watson joined the leadership of the Kanisa la Mennonite Tanzania…
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MWC Executive Committee deliberates, welcomes and celebrates
Bogotá Colombia – As Mennonite World Conference (MWC) kicked off Renewal 2027 (a 10-year event commemorating Anabaptism’s birth through the Reformation), the Executive Committee welcomed a record number of new members at their meeting in Germany. Before and after “Transformed by the Word: Reading Scripture in Anabaptist Perspectives” (Renewal 2027) in Augsburg, Germany, 12 February…
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Assembly planning and growth challenges engage MWC Executive Committee
Akron, Pennsylvania, USA – They toured the site of the next global assembly and imagined the global faith family worshipping and relating in that space. They explored ways to increase funding of Mennonite World Conference as a growing global movement. These were several of the tasks that engaged members of the MWC Executive Committee during…
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MWC and trees – 2007
MWC Executive plants four trees For the past 10 years, Mennonite World Conference has planted a tree in the community in which its Executive Committee meets. This year they planted four. One was in the Chaco at the Instituto Bíblico Indígena in Yalve Sanga, where musicians sang and played prior to the planting. Another was…
