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A life with no sin
Posted: 八月 2, 2016 | 分類: From Our Leaders
What comes to your mind when you hear the word hospitality ? It usually reminds me of the experience I had when I visited a country in another continent. I thought Colombians were good hosts until a family from a different culture hosted me. It was... 閱讀全文
Ministry partner update: ICOMB - July 2016
Posted: 七月 26, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
The International Community of Mennonite Brethren (ICOMB) is made up of 21 national churches in 19 countries with approximately 450,000 members. ICOMB exists to facilitate relationships and ministries to enhance the witness and discipleship of its... 閱讀全文
Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference considers Peace Network
Posted: 七月 26, 2016 | 分類: News
Bogotá, Colombia – Conrad Grebel University College hosted academics, practitioners, artists and church workers at the inaugural Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference and Festival, 9–12 June 2016. In Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 203 people from 20... 閱讀全文
Regional Representatives connect with churches
Posted: 七月 25, 2016 | 分類: News
Bogotá, Colombia – Smiles and a warm reception greeted Mennonite World Conference (MWC) Executive Committee member Steven Mang’ana and Regional Representative (Central/West Africa) Francisca Ibanda as they visited Église Mennonite du Burundi (EMB)... 閱讀全文
Reconciling the radical reformation
Posted: 七月 22, 2016 | 分類: News
Report on Bearing Fruit , the Lutheran World Federation Task Force to follow up the “Mennonite Action” at the LWF Eleventh Assembly in 2010. Bogotá, Colombia – The reconciliation process between the Lutheran World Federation and Mennonite World... 閱讀全文
Brief historic journey, profile, tendencies and challenges of Mennonites in Latin America
Posted: 七月 18, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
These reflections are a brief summary linking the historical development, profile and tendencies of the multiethnic Anabaptist communities and Mennonite churches in Latin America that belong to MWC, and present the challenges faced by Mennonites in... 閱讀全文
Newcomers to natives: Diversity and challenges for Mennonites in Brazil
Posted: 七月 18, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
The first Mennonites arrived in Brazil during the year 1930, coming as refugees from Russia/Ukraine, where their property, churches and schools were taken over by the state during the Stalin years. Thousands of Mennonites (15,000–25,000) and other... 閱讀全文
A ministry of inclusive hospitality
Posted: 七月 13, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
Hospitality: Exploring what it means to offer hospitality as followers of Christ Shocking photographs published in the news media awoke the Western world to the refugee crisis on September 2015. With a heightened awareness of the issue, the... 閱讀全文
Love opens hearts to learn more
Posted: 七月 13, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
Hospitality: Exploring what it means to offer hospitality as followers of Christ Shocking photographs published in the news media awoke the Western world to the refugee crisis on September 2015. With a heightened awareness of the issue, the... 閱讀全文
The heart of a stranger
Posted: 七月 13, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
Hospitality: Exploring what it means to offer hospitality as followers of Christ Shocking photographs published in the news media awoke the Western world to the refugee crisis on September 2015. With a heightened awareness of the issue, the... 閱讀全文
Hospitality transforms
Posted: 七月 13, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
Hospitality: Exploring what it means to offer hospitality as followers of Christ Shocking photographs published in the news media awoke the Western world to the refugee crisis on September 2015. With a heightened awareness of the issue, the... 閱讀全文
Deep in our theological DNA
Posted: 六月 22, 2016 | 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
MWC (re)launches prayer network
Posted: 六月 15, 2016 | 分類: News
Bogotá, Colombia – “It is sometimes hard to understand all the dynamics of what is happening in other parts of the world,” says Joanne Dietzel, coordinator of the PA 2015 prayer network; “however, as we share in prayer we become one body.” With the... 閱讀全文
Meet your hosts for Indonesia 2021
Posted: 六月 10, 2016 | 分類: From Our Leaders
In July 2009, Mennonite church leaders from Indonesia found themselves in a conversation outside a dormitory in Asuncíon, Paraguay. Although they were not strangers, their paths rarely crossed. The three groups they represented had complex histories... 閱讀全文
New Young Anabaptists Committee Meets in Indonesia
Posted: 五月 23, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
Less than a year ago, I hadn’t the faintest idea that I would be in Indonesia this February, let alone have four new friends from four different continents. But that’s what happens when you engage in your global faith community: you end up in places... 閱讀全文
Taking stock: With new leadership, new headquarters, what is in store for MWC?
Posted: 五月 19, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
When I attended my first Mennonite World Conference assembly in Kitchener, Ontario, in 1962, I remember sitting cross-legged on a gymnasium floor with other youth. I’d just come from Ethiopia—where I had been surrounded by brown faces at the Bible... 閱讀全文
Is it time to tell contemporary martyr stories?
Posted: 五月 19, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
In early December 2011, Irene and I worshipped in the Haarlem Mennonite Church, just outside of Amsterdam, Netherlands. This congregation began as a “hidden church” in 1530, six years before Menno Simons’ conversion to Anabaptism. Worshipping there... 閱讀全文
Larry Miller reflects on 22 years at the helm of Mennonite World Conference
Posted: 五月 19, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
“As long as the wind is in its sails. . .” Strasbourg, France--Larry Miller remembers one moment clearly when, as a 38-year-old, he was weighing whether or not to accept the nomination to lead Mennonite World Conference. The year was 1988, 23 years... 閱讀全文
Offering our blessings to the world
Posted: 五月 19, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
Sindy Novoa Caro lives in Bogotá, Colombia, where she belongs to the Casa de Oración church, a Mennonite Brethren congregation. In 2010–2011, Sindy served with YAMEN in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, as a teacher´s assistant in a school for children living... 閱讀全文
Being a Peace Church: How are we doing?
Posted: 五月 19, 2016 | 分類: Testimonies
We estimate that there are 9,500 congregations throughout the world that are part of the Mennonite World Conference (MWC) family. These congregations are found in every continent and in every imaginable context. This means that there are,... 閱讀全文
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