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Not So With Us
Posted: 五月 19, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
Power in Church Leadership: Exploring our shared commitment to doing church together As a global communion of Anabaptist-related churches, we share a common commitment to doing church together. We also acknowledge that the church needs leaders who... 閱讀全文
A Blessing or a Curse?
Posted: 五月 19, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
Power in Church Leadership: Exploring our shared commitment to doing church together As a global communion of Anabaptist-related churches, we share a common commitment to doing church together. We also acknowledge that the church needs leaders who... 閱讀全文
Walking in Receiving and Giving
Posted: 五月 19, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
Author advisory (below) “Rock on”: Fulfilling the bidirectional royal law We are a peace church because we are first and foremost a Jesus church and Jesus leads us in the way of peace. We care about justice because we care about Jesus and he cares... 閱讀全文
Inspiration and reflection: Hospitality
Posted: 五月 19, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
Piring bukan beling: Hospitality not hostility Indonesians are famous for their hospitality. If you visit their home, they will serve you food and drink. In the villages, the housewife will cook the family’s only chicken to serve a guest. I learned... 閱讀全文
Beyond Domination and Control
Posted: 五月 19, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
Power in Church Leadership: Exploring our shared commitment to doing church together As a global communion of Anabaptist-related churches, we share a common commitment to doing church together. We also acknowledge that the church needs leaders who... 閱讀全文
Evening Sermons from PA 2015
Posted: 五月 19, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
Read the full text of the evening sermons from PA 2015, by César García, Yukari Kaga, Nzuzi Mukwa, Wieteke van der Molen and Bruxy Cavey. These can also be a helpful resource as you prepare to celebrate World Fellowship Sunday with your congregation... 閱讀全文
Le pouvoir dans l’Église
Posted: 五月 19, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
Exploring our shared commitment to doing church together As a global communion of Anabaptist-related churches, we share a common commitment to doing church together. We also acknowledge that the church needs leaders who take responsibility for... 閱讀全文
Children of light
Posted: 五月 19, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
Some of us remember that the term “Anabaptist” was first of all an insult. This word, literally meaning “rebaptizers,” belonged to the arsenal of other insults hurled at our ancestors. Not by pagans or Muslims, but by other Christians in Europe... 閱讀全文
Canada: Pilgrims, strangers, disciples
Posted: 五月 19, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
Like the Mennonites (and other Anabaptists) of every country around the world, Canadian Mennonites are rooted in their nation and affected by its history. In global terms Canada is a very large country, spreading 7,000 kilometers from the Atlantic... 閱讀全文
God walks with us
Posted: 五月 19, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
Tom: We walk with God in both doubt and conviction. Both are part of our walk of faith. After all, as Hebrews 11:1 reminds us, “faith is the reality of things hoped for, the proof of things not seen.” As Paul says in 1 Corinthians 13:12, if we see... 閱讀全文
Doubt sharpens our convictions
Posted: 五月 19, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
The organizers of this conference were so gracious that they did not impose a topic, rather respectfully provided me an opportunity to select from a range of themes. As you all know, making choices from choices is a difficult choice, but not this... 閱讀全文
Soldiers in the army of the living God
Posted: 五月 19, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
Ephesians 4:1–7 On behalf of our brothers and sisters from Integrated Mennonite Church in the Philippines, as well as churches across Southeast Asia which I represent as a YAB speaker, I’d like to greet you a hearty, “Good morning!” It was also in... 閱讀全文
More united than ever before
Posted: 四月 28, 2016 | 分類: From Our Leaders
Alfred Neufeld, chair of MWC’s Faith and Life Commission, reflects on the state of the global Mennonite faith community Alfred Neufeld, theologian, historian and generally insightful philosopher, reads on two tracks these days: “Proceedings” from... 閱讀全文
“Nothing that I am doing am I doing by myself”
Posted: 四月 28, 2016 | 分類: From Our Leaders
Rebecca Osiro of Nairobi, Kenya, steps into her new role as vice president of Mennonite World Conference (MWC), with a life of experiences that has tested her faith and taught her wisdom. Rebecca was the first woman to be ordained in the Kenya... 閱讀全文
PA 2015 by the numbers
Posted: 二月 5, 2016 | 分類: News
Bogotá, Colombia – Mennonite World Conference’s (MWC) 16th Assembly in Pennsylvania, USA, connected Anabaptists from around the world, in person and electronically. A new statistics poster released by MWC illustrates the final numbers from PA 2015... 閱讀全文
MWC Assembly balances books
Posted: 十二月 18, 2015 | 分類: News
Bogota, Colombia – Assembly PA 2015, the once-every-six-years gathering of Mennonite World Conference, closed financially at break-even, that is, without a deficit. The MWC operations team continuously made adjustments, maintaining priorities of... 閱讀全文
A Vision for Reconciliation
Posted: 十月 28, 2015 | 分類: From Our Leaders
How did you become interested in the life of the church? Kraybill: Growing up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, my family was deeply involved in the mission of the church at the local level. Both of my parents gave tirelessly to the congregation,... 閱讀全文
Walking in Autonomy and Community
Posted: 十月 19, 2015 | 分類: Testimonies
How to be independent together In the beginning, man was alone. Even though God created all animals and brought them to man to be named, man was alone. And it didn’t suit him at all. God could see that, and so he whispered a deep, deep sleep unto... 閱讀全文
Why do we need a global communion?
Posted: 六月 16, 2015 | 分類: From Our Leaders
“Walking with God” is the theme of our next global Assembly, to be held 21-26 July 2015. But how can we walk together if we do not believe exactly the same? That was the question that a leader raised some months ago while I was visiting his... 閱讀全文
A New Pattern of Leadership
Posted: 五月 25, 2015 | 分類: From Our Leaders
“Colombian people do not fight for money. You fight for power.” These were the words of a North American missionary after several decades of ministry in Colombia. She was speaking about the ongoing reality of broken relationships among church... 閱讀全文
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