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Begin with prayer
“It was wonderful to begin this year praying together,” said Willi Hugo Perez after January’s online prayer hour. “May God encourage and strengthen the spirit of unity and peace in our beloved Anabaptist Mennonite family throughout the world.” Around 80 people gathered on Zoom at 14:00 UTC on 16 January 2026 to pray together at Mennonite World Conference’s bimonthly event. The
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Tracking down the Anabaptist family
At the beginning of 2026, Mennonite World Conference has 110 member churches (and one international association, IBICA) from 61 countries in more than 10 000 local congregations, speaking more than 45 languages.
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A circle of partnership
Over the course of its 100-year history Mennonite World Conference has gone through many changes. As a living organization it continues to grow and change. “Organizational structures need to be flexible and adapt to changes if they want to be effective in their mission,” says César García, general secretary. “It has become clear that the staff structure we established in 2012
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We need a new generation of stories
New global Anabaptist history series deepens understanding of God’s work in the world In 1922, when Rebecca Sengu was about 14 years old, she defied her parents and enrolled herself in the Mennonite girls’ school at the Nyanga mission station in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). She mustered the courage because she had heard
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Bearing witness to a living faith
With zeal and devotion, early Anabaptists lived out their faith in bold and risky ways that broke with the established church. This year, as Mennonite World Conference marked 500 years of the Anabaptist movement, we lived out our faith through reconciliation with churches that had once been opposed. Hospitality At the end of a long
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What have you been watching?
What did our global Anabaptist family watch in 2025? Mennonite World Conference’s (MWC) YouTube channel reveals four categories of videos that were most watched by Anabaptists around the world. Is one of these categories your favourite too? Anabaptist@500 commemoration service Naturally, at the top of the list is the Anabaptist@500 commemoration service and highlights. Available with interpretation in French, Spanish and German, the four videos
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The spirit of the yellow card
“One of the time-tested treasures of Mennonite World Conference (MWC) is its commitment to decision making by consensus,” says Janet Plenert. As vice president from 2009-2015 and regional representatives coordinator since 2024, she has experience with the practice. Consensus is a method of arriving at decisions unanimously or by carefully recording dissenting voices before moving ahead. “Consensus does not
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A blessing, not a burden
“Attending an Assembly is a wonderful experience. There’s an opportunity to see another part of the world, and to meet so many people. We learn new ways of working together; we adjust for things we hadn’t planned for; and most importantly, we build relationships,” says César García, MWC general secretary. When the leaders of Meserete Kristos
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A tapestry of faith, adventure and love
Kathryn Good’s life of service lives on beyond her death through the bequest she arranged. A bequest is an opportunity to provide an end-of-life gift as part of estate or will plans. It allows the giver to support an organization they believe in even after they are gone. Kathryn Good selected MWC to benefit in
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COP 30 blogs by a Dutch Mennonite
Updates from COP 29 – United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) This year, Marijke van Duin was once again an observer at the annual United Nations Climate Summit as a delegate of the World Council of Churches. This 30th climate summit, COP 30, was held in Belém, Brazil, in the Amazon rainforest. Marijke
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Committed to serving people
How do you stay in relationship in a diverse global communion comprised of 110 national member churches scattered across 61 countries, with vastly different economic circumstances and political and cultural contexts, speaking more than 30 different languages? “Mennonite World Conference is an organic community and not a bureaucratic institution. As a global church, we are
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Assembly 18 postponed
The Mennonite World Conference Assembly in Ethiopia is postponed to a different date and country. Due to an internal crisis of unity, Meserete Kristos Church (MKC) has sorrowfully withdrawn their invitation to host the MWC Assembly. Their need to focus on internal unity makes it difficult to dedicate the attention needed to prepare for global
