Courier: “A messenger … entrusted with the task of bearing messages.” That’s how MWC General Secretary Paul N. Kraybill introduced MWC’s new magazine in its first issue in 1986.
“The 1984 Mennonite World Conference Assembly at Strasbourg echoed a cry heard often before and since. We don’t know enough about each other. We are a worldwide community, but our knowledge is local and limited. In spite of our presses, publishers and publications, there is no international messenger!” he wrote.
And so: “Mennonite World Conference is pleased to introduce Courier, a new publication.
“Courier is designed specifically to be a messenger carrying messages to and from every part of the Mennonite world community.
“We welcome responses, comments, suggestions, criticisms and contributions – to the end that this will truly be a ‘courier’ bearing messages to and from every part of the world.”
Between then and 2026, the magazine has seen changes and will continue to! But our aim continues to be a place for the global family to get know each other.
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And we continue to want to hear from you:
How is Courier teaching, inspiring and helping you to understand the Anabaptist family?
What insights and moving stories from your reading have stayed with you long after you set the magazine down?
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And we invite you join us in conversation. Members of our global family have rich experience and deep wisdom to speak across barriers of geography and culture. We are working on some opportunity to learn together in a webinar format. Watch for upcoming announcements about a webinar.
As we see disunity and disagreement around us, including in the church, may we open our hearts to receive the grace to embrace diversity.