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The four Commissions and growing number of networks are comprised of experts and church leaders from our member churches on all continents. Face-to-face meetings are regularly supplemented by online communication.<\/p>\n<p>C\u00e9sar Garc\u00eda is the first general secretary from the Global South. Upon Garc\u00eda\u2019s appointment in 2012, the second secretariat office moved from Strasbourg, France, (opened 1990) to Bogot\u00e1, Colombia. MWC\u2019s first salaried secretary, Paul N. Kraybill, was appointed in 1973. The Kitchener office was established in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Given the demands on the general secretary to connect with Anabaptist churches around the world and to represent global Anabaptists among other Christian world communions, following a discernment process MWC leaders began in 2014, the MWC officers determined that a location closer to frequent flight paths and a larger portion of the constituency was more practical.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe acknowledge that wherever the general secretary is located, there are advantages and disadvantages,\u201d says MWC president J. Nelson Kraybill. \u201cWith this move, there is a loss of the symbolism of our general secretary coming from and living in the Global South. On balance, however, the greater ease of global travel from a North American hub makes the job more sustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bogot\u00e1 office, in collaboration with Mennonite Central Committee, will remain in place for the Chief Administrative Officer Anna Sorgius, administrative assistant Nelson Martinez and Andean region regional representative Pablo Stucky. Chief Communications Officer Kristina Toews also moved to Canada in February to work out of a home office in Abbotsford, B.C.<\/p>\n<p>Living close to the metropolitan centre Toronto with its busy international airport will improve the general secretary\u2019s availability to the whole communion.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Mennonite World Conference release <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General secretary C\u00e9sar Garc\u00eda and executive assistant Sandra B\u00e1ez Rojas of Mennonite World Conference (MWC) have relocated to Canada in February 2019 to work out of the Kitchener, Ontario, office. 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