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Preserve church documents, say church historians
Posted: Tháng 8 13, 2019 | Mục phân loại: News
“The global church works best when all her parts are engaged in sharing their stories,” said Patrick Obonde, director of missions at the Anabaptist Leadership Education Centre in Kenya. On 17–19 June 2019, historians, pastors and archivists did just... Xem thêm
MWC books: one church's peace project
Posted: Tháng 7 22, 2019 | Mục phân loại: News
“Why would you help us? Who are you Mennonites?” A family from Colombia asked this of their friends at Grantham Mennonite Brethren (MB) Church in St. Catharines, Ont., Canada. With bureaucratic assistance from Mennonite Central Committee and... Xem thêm
MWC makes space, shares hope
Posted: Tháng 5 22, 2019 | Mục phân loại: News
“Do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord,” said Mennonite World Conference (MWC) President J. Nelson Kraybill. At the Executive Committee meetings, eight pastors and leaders from Asociación Iglesias Cristianas Menonitas de Costa Rica shared... Xem thêm
Growing forgiveness
Posted: Tháng 5 17, 2019 | Mục phân loại: News
It took about 490 years for government officials in Bern, Switzerland, to ask for forgiveness for persecution of Anabaptists in the region. It took less than two to get a response from Swiss Mennonites. Delegates from every congregation in Konferenz... Xem thêm
“Every second, God is here, helping me”
Posted: Tháng 4 23, 2019 | Mục phân loại: News
“A chapter of my story was written while with YAMEN,” says Diana Martínez. The young church leader from Colombia served as an educational assistant at Casa Hogar Belén, a children’s home in Managua, Nicaragua, 2017–2018 through YAMEN. YAMEN (Young... Xem thêm
Challenge and hope on the road
Posted: Tháng 4 15, 2019 | Mục phân loại: News
“We enthusiastically celebrate that we are a Christo-centric borderless faith community, because as part of Mennonite World Conference, we fraternally unite with 107 Anabaptist and Mennonite [national churches and one international association]... Xem thêm
Mennonite Church West Africa celebrates credentialed pastors
Posted: Tháng 4 2, 2019 | Mục phân loại: News
During its 2018 annual conference, Mennonite Church West Africa (MCWA) celebrated its first-ever credentialed leaders: Adriano MBackeh, Sangpierre Mendy, Daniel Djin-ale, and Gibby Mane. More than 200 joyous attendees – the most ever for this type... Xem thêm
General secretary relocates
Posted: Tháng 3 19, 2019 | Mục phân loại: News
General secretary César García and executive assistant Sandra Báez Rojas of Mennonite World Conference (MWC) have relocated to Canada in February 2019 to work out of the Kitchener, Ontario, office. MWC is an international communion of Anabaptist... Xem thêm
MWC celebrates legacy of two leaders
Posted: Tháng 3 4, 2019 | Mục phân loại: News
Mennonite World Conference lost two leaders currently serving in official roles. Pascal Kulungu, member of the newly formed Global Anabaptist Peace Network steering committee, died 16 January 2019 after a short illness. Manjula Roul, member of the... Xem thêm
Peace by piece: a ministry of sewing
Posted: Tháng 2 20, 2019 | Mục phân loại: News
“The church must do its job, offering people charity and spiritual teaching, so that a person may be transformed,” says Safari Mutabesha Bahati. Mennonite Association for Peace and Development (MAPD) in Malawi, a member of the global Anabaptist... Xem thêm
Agents of hope: Andean Anabaptist solidarity
Posted: Tháng 2 20, 2019 | Mục phân loại: News
For the first time in more than a decade, Anabaptist church leaders from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela gathered together, 9–12 November 2018, in La Cumbre, Valle, Colombia. They studied the Bible, sang in community, and listened to each... Xem thêm
Aid to displaced people makes a difference
Posted: Tháng 2 1, 2019 | Mục phân loại: News
Strengthened by emergency food, 700 families displaced by violence in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) are preparing to plant crops and to raise pigs to support themselves. In partnership with Mennonite Central... Xem thêm
MWC’s Top 10
Posted: Tháng 1 16, 2019 | Mục phân loại: News
As we looked back at 2018, we gathered Mennonite World Conference's most popular news stories based on website views. In case you missed them the first time, here are the most visited stories from the global Anabaptist family in 2018. 1. Benni... Xem thêm
Migrant solidarity in the Honduran church
Posted: Tháng 1 16, 2019 | Mục phân loại: News
Migration is shifting populations around the globe. Motives are diverse, from meeting basic needs, to fleeing violence and seeking opportunities. People balance the hope of a better life for their children against the challenges of dangerous passage... Xem thêm
GMT responds to Kerala flooding
Posted: Tháng 12 17, 2018 | Mục phân loại: News
Mr Kannan kutty, 45, has terminal cancer. His wife is a labourer. She and one of his sons work any job they can find to earn money. Their other son is a student. Already struggling to have enough funds for cancer treatments and living costs, the... Xem thêm
Who’s new?
Posted: Tháng 12 17, 2018 | Mục phân loại: News
The people of Mennonite World Conference are always working to create space for relationship among the members around the world. Meet the newest faces on the team. National co-coordinators for Indonesia 2021 work with the MWC Chief International... Xem thêm
The Holy Spirit transforms women at MTAL retreat
Posted: Tháng 12 14, 2018 | Mục phân loại: News
“With the help of God’s Spirit, the retreat has been the means to open and free our hearts of knots and situations that prevent us from fully being women in every sense of the word,” says Gladis Velásqez Maldonado. Velásqez Maldonado is part of an... Xem thêm
Biennial Thai Anabaptist Gathering
Posted: Tháng 12 10, 2018 | Mục phân loại: News
Anabaptist groups and individuals gathered together 8–12 October 2018 at Sammuk Christian Academy, Chonburi, Thailand, for the fourth Thailand Anabaptist Gathering (TAG). The Thai Mennonite Brethren leaders and MB Mission missionaries planned and... Xem thêm
A growing church: a look at reported church members in 2018
Posted: Tháng 11 20, 2018 | Mục phân loại: News
“Uganda is ripe for evangelism and the church is growing,” says bishop Simon Okoth, national coordinator of Uganda Mennonite Church. The new Mennonite World Conference (MWC) member church (accepted by the Executive Committee in 2017) grew from 310... Xem thêm
Standing in solidarity with Indigenous people in Canada
Posted: Tháng 11 1, 2018 | Mục phân loại: News
“Our global value of peacemaking is expressed in the Declaration of Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples,” says Mennonite World Conference general secretary César García. “How a church in South Korea or Colombia lives that out is not something we can... Xem thêm
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