{"id":6589,"date":"2016-08-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/ministry-partner-update-icomb-august-2016\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T18:39:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T18:39:35","slug":"ministry-partner-update-icomb-august-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/stories\/ministry-partner-update-icomb-august-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry partner update: ICOMB &#8211; August 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The International Community of Mennonite Brethren (ICOMB) is made up of 21 national churches in 19 countries with approximately 450,000 members. ICOMB exists to facilitate relationships and ministries to enhance the witness and discipleship of its member national churches \u2013 connecting, strengthening and expanding.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meeting with C\u00e9sar Garc\u00eda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After the Panama Summit, I met Cesar for the third annual meeting between Mennonite World Conference (MWC) and ICOMB. We discuss matters of mutual interest and concern. We consider MWC to be our \u201cumbrella\u201d global family. We always collaborate so that we don\u2019t relate to MB national bodies in different ways, especially if there are problems.<\/p>\n<p>ICOMB is the Mennonite Brethren community \u2013 the global \u201cdenomination.\u201d It is the end result of mission. Service to others and proclamation of the gospel are the means to establish local churches that will eventually result in a Mennonite Brethren national church \u2013 an indigenous body serving and proclaiming within their own cultural context. As the expression of the Mennonite Brethren global family, altogether we form the MB denomination as an \u201cinternational community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2013David Wiebe<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Community of Mennonite Brethren (ICOMB) is made up of 21 national churches in 19 countries with approximately 450,000 members. ICOMB exists to facilitate relationships and ministries to enhance the witness and discipleship of its member national churches \u2013 connecting, strengthening and expanding. 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