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Angola church supports women
Posted: July 25, 2024 | Category: News
“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress” (James 1:27). Igreja Evangelica Menonita Em Angola (IEMA) has taken this to heart with a lending project to promote small business... more/más/suite
In Memoriam: Bijoy Kumar Roul (1950-2024)
Posted: July 24, 2024 | Category: News
Dr. Bijoy Kumar Roul, founder and chair of the Brethren in Christ (BIC) Church, Cuttack, Odisha, India, died 12 July 2024. He represented BIC Odisha on Mennonite World Conference’s General Council since the church became a member in 2003. “I had... more/más/suite
Life-extending gifts to Myanmar
Posted: July 11, 2024 | Category: News
Even civil war doesn’t stop the global family from supporting one another. For the Indonesia 2022 Assembly, Amos Chin from Bible Missionary Church, Mennonite (BMC), came to participate in the MWC General Council. A military coup followed by civil... more/más/suite
Music opens window to Anabaptist worship across cultures
Posted: June 24, 2024 | Category: News
Five vocal ensembles display God’s love in the diversity of culture through music in 10 concerts at 500 anniversary event in Zurich “Dalam Yesus…” For many Assembly participants, the multilingual, multicultural music of plenary worship sessions is... more/más/suite
GAMEO takes multilingual focus
Posted: June 22, 2024 | Category: News
The management board of the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (GAMEO) * held their annual meeting both in person in Goshen and Elkhart, Indiana, USA, and by Zoom on 24 May 2024. This meeting brought together board members from the... more/más/suite
One body with many faces
Posted: June 21, 2024 | Category: News
“One body with different parts and different functions: Even though we exist in different locations and cultures, we share the same convictions central to our belief and practices,” says George Broughton, reflecting on Mennonite World Conference. He... more/más/suite
Global gathering mourns, repents and reconciles
Posted: June 19, 2024 | Category: News
The rain came with a cool breeze, driving humid heat out the open church windows. So began “That the World May Know” (John 17:23), the fourth Global Gathering of the Global Christian Forum (GCF) in Accra, Ghana. The gathering 16-19 April 2024 marked... more/más/suite
Young adults will be Empowered by Love
Posted: June 17, 2024 | Category: News
Global gathering of young people for quincentenary Global Youth Summit (GYS) : a time for worshipping together, reflecting on faith across cultures, learning about the local culture, and growing understanding through relevant workshops – and love... more/más/suite
Theologians and laypeople study the Bible together
Posted: May 24, 2024 | Category: News
“The more a congregation gathers all kinds of readers to study and interpret Scripture together, the more equipped its members will be to identify their common values and mission,” says Malinda Berry. She is developing “Anabaptist Thriving... more/más/suite
Renewal: Awakening to a global family of faith
Posted: May 23, 2024 | Category: News
“Transformation in the Bible is always communal, not individual,” said César García at Renewal 2024 * in Curitiba, Brazil. It requires dialogue in the community, where diversity of position enables us to correct mistakes of the past to deepen our... more/más/suite
Executive Committee approves theological education and creation care grants
Posted: May 22, 2024 | Category: News
Continues shaping networks, adding membership and supporting learning and action in member churches Funding for theological education and carbon tax small grants was passed at the annual meeting of Mennonite World Conference's Executive Committee... more/más/suite
A pastoral letter for Anabaptist-Mennonites in Kenya
Posted: May 6, 2024 | Category: News
Beloved sisters and brothers: Our brothers and sisters in Kenya Mennonite Church have asked for prayer that the continuous rain in Kisumu County would subside. Weeks of heavier than usual rains for the season have wreaked havoc in many parts of East... more/más/suite
MKC promises memorable and inspirational Assembly
Posted: April 25, 2024 | Category: News
The MWC Assembly in Ethiopia in 2028 takes its first steps toward celebration with the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) and appointment of a national advisory council. From 11-17 January 2024, MWC leaders Liesa Unger (Chief... more/más/suite
In Memoriam: Reverend Bleise Nzamba (1957-2024)
Posted: April 11, 2024 | Category: News
Reverend Bleise Nzamba, legal represntative of Igreja da Comunidade Menonita em Angola (ICMA), died 30 March 2024. He served Mennonite World Conference on the General Council in Indonesia 2022 and Kenya 2018. Reverend Bleise Nzamba studied at Nyanga... more/más/suite
Power of prayer cannot be underestimated
Posted: March 28, 2024 | Category: News
“Those who are involved in humanitarian projects and pastoral care are familiar with loneliness, anhedonia, weakness, despondency, cynicism... But all this was washed away with water and wiped off with towels,” Denis Gorenkov, a Baptist pastor in... more/más/suite
Mennonite World Conference commemorates birth of Anabaptism in 2025
Posted: March 27, 2024 | Category: News
On 29 May 2025, Mennonite World Conference (MWC) will welcome guests from around the world to The Courage to Love: Anabaptism@500. The day-long celebration commemorates the birth of the Anabaptist movement in Zurich, Switzerland. Following workshops... more/más/suite
MWC mourns with our brothers and sisters in Myanmar
Posted: March 1, 2024 | Category: News
Our Mennonite World Conference siblings from Myanmar have asked for the prayers of our global communion. They write: Our country's civil war has been ongoing for more than three years. The death toll is rising every day. More than half of the... more/más/suite
Zurich 2025 builds bridge to reconciliation
Posted: February 29, 2024 | Category: News
“We have walked a long way as Anabaptist-Mennonites; today we are learning to be bridge builders,” says Jürg Bräker, general secretary of Konferenz der Mennoniten der Schweiz/Conférence mennonite suisse. “The Courage to Love” is a public,... more/más/suite
Gathering of world communions focuses on God’s work
Posted: December 18, 2023 | Category: News
The Conference of Secretaries of Christian World Communions met at the Ecumenical Institute of the World Council of Churches at Bossey, Switzerland, from 30 October-3 November 2023. To foster mutual understanding and familiarize participants with... more/más/suite
In Memoriam: John A. Lapp (1933-2023)
Posted: December 10, 2023 | Category: News
Mennonite World Conference mourns the loss of John A. Lapp, who died on Tuesday, 7 December 2023, at 90 years of age. John A. Lapp was coordinator and co-editor of MWC’s Global Mennonite History Series. From 1997 to 2012, he and C. Arnold Snyder... more/más/suite
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