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Reflections on Kintsukuroi
Posted: 八月 5, 2024 | 分類: Testimonies
Brokenness into glory Clay in God’s hands Brokenness into glory Kintsukuroi , a traditional Japanese technique, involves repairing ceramics with lacquer and gold, embracing damage as part of an object’s history instead of concealing or discarding it... 閱讀全文
Peace Sunday 2024 – Activities
Posted: 六月 26, 2024 | 分類: Discussions
2 Corinthians 4:7 describes the gospel as a “treasure” in “clay jars.” These humble vessels bring to mind the Japanese tradition of kintsukuroi that creates (or recreates) pottery from broken pieces. Damaged vessels are put back together, often with... 閱讀全文
The mosaic of Scripture and of the church
Posted: 六月 26, 2024 | 分類: Testimonies
Peace Sunday 2024 Teaching resource Reading Scripture has always been at the heart of the church’s life, but from early on, different ways of reading and understanding have led to conflict and division. What is Scripture? Already in the early... 閱讀全文
Interconnected family celebrates peace
Posted: 十月 21, 2023 | 分類: Testimonies
Peace (English) – Paix (French) – Amani (Swahili) – Mirembe (Luganda): children at a Uganda Mennonite church wrote “Peace” in multiple languages. (See photo below.) Each year, the Peace Commission prepares a worship resource for Peace Sunday... 閱讀全文
Third peace conference brings faith and peace together
Posted: 七月 20, 2023 | 分類: News
“There’s something in the water among Mennonite theologians and peace building scholars and practitioners…around the decolonial project that people are drinking from now that is interesting and quite good,” says Andrew Suderman. The Eastern... 閱讀全文
Time to correct the page
Posted: 八月 29, 2022 | 分類: From Our Leaders
“Indigenous solidarity hits the heart of what we do in the Philippines with Coffee for Peace,” says Joji Pantoja, chair of the Peace Commission (2015-2022). The Peace Commission drafted a Statement of Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples that was... 閱讀全文
Jesus’ message of resilience and liberation
Posted: 八月 26, 2022 | 分類: Testimonies
Reading: Matthew 5:3-20 In June 1981, our family moved to Cochabamba, Bolivia, where my parents were to teach in a Baptist seminary that wanted more Anabaptist input. We arrived at a particularly raucous point in Bolivian history. In July 1980, Luis... 閱讀全文
Finding new ways to respond
Posted: 八月 8, 2022 | 分類: Testimonies
Resilience in the face of the pandemic When we look back at what happened in the last two years all throughout the world, one could just offer a sigh. We were never prepared for this. Being locked down for several months in the Philippines forced us... 閱讀全文
Peace with broken pieces
Posted: 七月 28, 2022 | 分類: Testimonies
The power of resilience A Peace Sunday 2022 testimony “The vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter’s hand, and he reworked it into another vessel, as seemed good to him” (Jeremiah 18:4). This theme has been discussed a lot recently,... 閱讀全文
Peace amid the storms of life
Posted: 十二月 20, 2021 | 分類: Testimonies
“As followers of Jesus, we follow his example and work to bring peace in the midst of chaos." Member churches around the world celebrated Peace Sunday 2021 using Mennonite World Conference’s Peace Sunday worship resource: “Finding hope and healing... 閱讀全文
A broader fellowship
Posted: 三月 23, 2021 | 分類: From Our Leaders
Like the chambers of a heart, the four MWC commissions serve the global community of Anabaptist-related churches, in the areas of Deacons, Faith and Life, Peace, Mission. Commissions prepare materials for consideration by the General Council, give... 閱讀全文
An incessant demand
Posted: 九月 6, 2020 | 分類: Testimonies
Like many Mennonites, I hold close the 16th-century stories of Anabaptist suffering. Like many I’m haunted all the more by the dangerous memory of the Cruciform One – ”Take up the cross, and follow me.”閱讀全文
Standing in Solidarity with the Wayana in the French Guyana
Posted: 九月 5, 2020 | 分類: Testimonies
Lina lives in French Guyana, in a remote, rainforest community called Taluene on the Upper Maroni river. The food in Lina’s community is contaminated by gold mining. Like Indigenous Peoples around the globe, Linia’s people do not have title to their... 閱讀全文
"Peace in my heart"
Posted: 八月 12, 2020 | 分類: Testimonies
Esuno Kokoro uchini (The heart of Jesus is reflected in my heart). Esuno Heiwa uchini (I have the peace of Jesus in my heart). Mitsuru Ishido wrote this song to encourage Nasu Keiko, a fellow Mennonite church member who was sewing masks to donate to... 閱讀全文
Solidarity and our interconnectedness
Posted: 七月 3, 2020 | 分類: From Our Leaders
As I write these words, our world is embroiled in several struggles. First, we have been clutched by a global pandemic which has disrupted any sense of normalcy we may have assumed. Our second struggle is with overt expressions of deeply rooted... 閱讀全文
Amnesty for Sangmin Lee
Posted: 三月 11, 2020 | 分類: News
It was Tuesday, 31 December, the last day of the year 2019, when Sangmin Lee called me with excitement to report news of his amnesty. Early in 2014, Lee was sentenced to 18 months in prison for refusing, on the basis of his faith, to complete his... 閱讀全文
“A peace that passes all understanding”
Posted: 九月 13, 2019 | 分類: Testimonies
Sermon notes for Peace Sunday Background to the Letter The Writer This is a profound letter written by Paul. Rarely do we take the time to think about the conditions under which this letter was written in Philippi, but it is important to analyze the... 閱讀全文
Lessons from the crossfire: Remaining faithful to God’s peace
Posted: 八月 2, 2019 | 分類: Testimonies
Colombia is in the early stages of a peace process signed in late 2016 between the largest guerilla group and the national government. Even though many of us had high hopes that the peace agreements would bring a turnaround in the country’s history... 閱讀全文
擁抱脆弱
Posted: 十一月 15, 2017 | 分類: Testimonies
一間更新的和平教會會呼籲彼此重新委身,即使在面對敵人時亦是如此。建立溝通的橋樑就解決了不合一的問題。若無關係、無連繫,和平便無法滋長。若我們想與不同信仰或文化背景者往來,這是最基本的。 面對多元信仰與文化的重大挑戰之一,是我們對他人先入為主的想法與假設,這使我們無法看見他人也是天父兒女的價值。這是與他們互動時須先克服的挑戰。 款待陌生人這德行在促成跨越宗教與文化藩籬的了解方面,扮演了關鍵角色,教會有責任為交流互動的提供空間。然而,教會也必須體現陌生者的靈性,成為賓客,取了脆弱者的位置,這樣,... 閱讀全文
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