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A transformative year: YAMEN participants meet God and people
Posted: January 10, 2018 | Category: News
Bogotá, Colombia – “The gospel connects us all no matter where we are,” says Laurey Segura. She lived out this realization as a teacher and youth worker with the help of Young Anabaptist Mennonite Exchange Network (YAMEN), a joint Mennonite Central... more/más/suite
First Mennonite Brethren serves in DRC government
Posted: November 15, 2017 | Category: News
Hillsboro, Kan., USA – Maleghi Lumeya has recently been appointed Ministre des affaires foncières (minister of land [property]) of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Lumeya, who has served as a national congressman, is the first Mennonite Brethren to... more/más/suite
MWC – new pictures, people and publication
Posted: November 15, 2017 | Category: News
Mennonite World Conference weaves a web of connections within the Anabaptist Mennonite family around the world through website, emails, social media, publishing and relations with other organizations. Here are some new connecting points. MWC’s... more/más/suite
Global encyclopedia commits to global content
Posted: November 7, 2017 | Category: News
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada – John D. Roth, Mennonite World Conference Faith and Life Commission secretary, was appointed general editor of the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (GAMEO – www.gameo.org ). The GAMEO board voted... more/más/suite
MWC facilitates interdependent response to Peru flooding
Posted: October 24, 2017 | Category: News
Bogotá, Colombia – Maria Justa Ipanaque (34) never imagined that she would ride in a helicopter. The small-scale farmer who lives with her husband Ezequiel Ramos Sánchez (40) and five children in Chato Chico, Piura, Peru, became trapped in her house... more/más/suite
Anabaptists respond to violence and displacement in DR Congo
Posted: October 24, 2017 | Category: News
Akron, Pennsylvania, USA – A collaborative Anabaptist response will soon reach some of the 1.4 million people displaced by armed conflict in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) with food, household items and shelter... more/más/suite
MWC – new on the web: Building bridges with Peace Sunday
Posted: September 1, 2017 | Category: News
Mennonite World Conference weaves a web of connections within the Anabaptist Mennonite family around the world through website, emails, social media, publishing and relations with other organizations. Several new connecting points are emerging over... more/más/suite
Spanish speaking YAMENers face unique challenges in Latin American placements
Posted: September 1, 2017 | Category: News
Serving in an area of the world relatively close to your home country where the dominant language is the same as your own might seem relatively easy. But Young Anabaptist Mennonite Exchange Network (YAMEN) participants who hail from Latin American... more/más/suite
Angolan Mennonites welcome refugees
Posted: September 1, 2017 | Category: News
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada – “The situation is very serious,” says Francisca Ibanda, Mennonite World Conference regional representative for Central/West Africa. The UN expects more than 50,000 people from DR Congo to become refugees in Angola in... more/más/suite
MWC has beauty to be shared
Posted: July 22, 2017 | Category: News
Bogota, Colombia – “MWC is a global family through which we experience our participation in the body of Christ,” says general secretary César García. Social media is one place we participate with each other across geographical boundaries. “We are a... more/más/suite
New bishops in Tanzania plan for revival
Posted: July 22, 2017 | Category: News
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada – The church in Tanzania underwent revival in the 1940s–1980s and the leaders of Kanisa la Mennonite Tanzania (KMT) are ready to welcome it again. The newly elected bishops have cast a vision to expand the Mennonite church... more/más/suite
“God is with us”: Peruvian MBs help neighbours amid loss
Posted: June 29, 2017 | Category: News
Bogotá, Colombia – It seems a providential convergence that Mennonite World Conference’s Andean regional representative Pablo Stucky had planned to visit Peru in early April. His previously scheduled meetings with church leaders came shortly after... more/más/suite
Called to justice: Mennonite churches respond to migration crisis in Mexico
Posted: June 29, 2017 | Category: News
Bogota, Colombia – “The Bible invites us to remember that the people of Israel were also strangers; they were captives and were deported,” says Carlos Martínez, Conferencia de Iglesias Evangélicas Anabautistas Menonitas de México. “The [early]... more/más/suite
MWC provides care after the storm
Posted: June 29, 2017 | Category: News
Bogotá, Colombia – A 15th birthday celebration at their church, Casa de Oración, drew Ignacio and Liliana’s family out of their house in Manta, Ecuador, earlier than usual on 16 April, 2016, just before an earthquake struck. The 7.8 Richter scale... more/más/suite
New name? MWC considers identity and brand
Posted: June 29, 2017 | Category: News
Bogota, Colombia – When someone mispronounces or misspells your name, does it seem as though they aren’t quite addressing you? We choose names carefully – perhaps to honour someone or express a hoped-for characteristic; they form part of our sense... more/más/suite
Health network issues global call
Posted: May 31, 2017 | Category: News
Bogotá, Colombia – Mennonite and Brethren health care leaders from around the world are developing a network to foster collaboration and support among related organizations. The leaders of the emerging Global Anabaptist Health Network (GAHN), a... more/más/suite
The perfect placement: A Kenyan Mennonite in the MCC UN Office
Posted: May 31, 2017 | Category: News
New York, USA – Right outside the window from my desk at the MCC UN Office on the 10th floor of the Church Center for the United Nations, I can see the UN entrance and the Kenyan flag, which unexpectedly brews the feeling of patriotism; I am... more/más/suite
The heart at work: Commissions meet
Posted: May 31, 2017 | Category: News
Bogotá, Colombia – MWC’s Renewal 2027 event in Augsburg, Germany, was bookended by meetings of its decision-making bodies and working groups, including a face-to-face gathering of the four Mennonite World Conference (MWC) Commissions: Deacons,... more/más/suite
MWC Executive Committee deliberates, welcomes and celebrates
Posted: May 16, 2017 | Category: News
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... more/más/suite
Joyous hope and faith
Posted: May 16, 2017 | Category: News
Mennonite Churches in Eastern Africa “In the traditional African religious experience, the expression of faith was never understood in universal terms,” writes Alemu Checole, assisted by Samuel Asefa, in Anabaptist Songs in African Hearts, in the... more/más/suite
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