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Spanish speaking YAMENers face unique challenges in Latin American placements
Posted: september 1, 2017 | Categorie: 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... Lees meer
Angolan Mennonites welcome refugees
Posted: september 1, 2017 | Categorie: 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... Lees meer
MWC – new on the web: Building bridges with Peace Sunday
Posted: september 1, 2017 | Categorie: 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... Lees meer
Eun Hunki: Choosing to follow the way of Jesus
Posted: september 1, 2017 | Categorie: Testimonies
His life was not easy, but he never failed to carry the spirit of Jesus that the Mennonites taught him through his vocational school years in 1950–60s. After graduation, he studied dairy farming and finally moved to Hokkaido, Japan, to live with his... Lees meer
Ministry partner update: IBICA – August 2017
Posted: augustus 10, 2017 | Categorie: Testimonies
The International Brethren in Christ Association (IBICA) is the common network for all national conferences of the Brethren in Christ church with the aim to facilitate communication, build trust and cooperation within our global community, and to... Lees meer
Ministry partner update: ICOMB – August 2017
Posted: augustus 10, 2017 | Categorie: Testimonies
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... Lees meer
Elsbeth and Balthasar Hubmaier
Posted: juli 22, 2017 | Categorie: Testimonies
What was it like for a Christian who defends the state’s use of force to have the force used against him? Or for a wife, after her husband’s imprisonment and torture, to watch as he is burned at the stake? Or, three days later, for her to be tied to... Lees meer
MWC has beauty to be shared
Posted: juli 22, 2017 | Categorie: 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... Lees meer
New bishops in Tanzania plan for revival
Posted: juli 22, 2017 | Categorie: 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... Lees meer
When mental illness arrives in the pews
Posted: juli 14, 2017 | Categorie: Testimonies
Ben’s parents were mystified and deeply concerned. They had received a call that their 22-year-old son was being taken for a psychiatric exam at the hospital. He had been a regular kid who was bright, creative, fun-loving and caring. Now he was... Lees meer
Churches as healing communities
Posted: juli 13, 2017 | Categorie: Testimonies
How should the church think about mental health? Our mental state is connected to body and spirit, and, like them, can be in a state of unhealthiness. In this perspectives section, leaders and health practitioners from Anabaptist-related... Lees meer
Churches and psychiatry: “it’s complicated”
Posted: juli 13, 2017 | Categorie: Testimonies
How should the church think about mental health ? Our mental state is connected to body and spirit, and, like them, can be in a state of unhealthiness. In this perspectives section, leaders and health practitioners from Anabaptist-related... Lees meer
Stress management for mental health
Posted: juli 13, 2017 | Categorie: Testimonies
How should the church think about mental health? Our mental state is connected to body and spirit, and, like them, can be in a state of unhealthiness. In this perspectives section, leaders and health practitioners from Anabaptist-related... Lees meer
Health of a whole person
Posted: juli 13, 2017 | Categorie: Testimonies
How should the church think about mental health? Our mental state is connected to body and spirit, and, like them, can be in a state of unhealthiness. In this perspectives section, leaders and health practitioners from Anabaptist-related... Lees meer
Life from a graveyard
Posted: juli 13, 2017 | Categorie: Testimonies
Intermingled Anabaptist expressions bloom in hard soil of Thailand “Thailand: The graveyard of mission.” This descriptor has echoed in the ears of Thailand-bound missionaries for decades; thankfully, God has a different story. That different story... Lees meer
Ministry partner update: ICOMB – July 2017
Posted: juli 6, 2017 | Categorie: Testimonies
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... Lees meer
“God is with us”: Peruvian MBs help neighbours amid loss
Posted: juni 29, 2017 | Categorie: 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... Lees meer
A miracle in Haiti
Posted: juni 29, 2017 | Categorie: Testimonies
As Hurricane Matthew bore down on Haiti in October 2016, labour pains were bearing down on Seurette, wife of pastor Jean Mario Marelin. Without the assistance of a midwife, she safely delivered her baby despite the damage the house was taking on... Lees meer
Called to justice: Mennonite churches respond to migration crisis in Mexico
Posted: juni 29, 2017 | Categorie: 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]... Lees meer
MWC provides care after the storm
Posted: juni 29, 2017 | Categorie: 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... Lees meer
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