{"id":6632,"date":"2017-03-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/ministry-partner-update-icomb-march-2017\/"},"modified":"2024-12-06T02:43:25","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T02:43:25","slug":"ministry-partner-update-icomb-march-2017-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/stories\/ministry-partner-update-icomb-march-2017-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry partner update: ICOMB &#8211; March 2017"},"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>More than 200 Mennonite Brethren church leaders from 35 countries gathered 7\u201311 March 2017 with a call to renewing mission and inspiring a movement of prayer. The global MB family sought God\u2019s direction for greater mission calling. ICOMB was a result of a 1988 mission consultation in Curitiba, Brazil. Now, it was the one to call the global MB church to this historic meeting from which each ICOMB member left with a renewed sense of God\u2019s calling, with three or four specific mission initiatives (global and local) and with a commitment to build a prayer movement in their national church.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014David Wiebe, executive director, ICOMB<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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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