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MWC Global Church Sharing Fund responds to pandemic needs
Posted: 五月 14, 2020 | Category: News
Instead of being a great leveller, the COVID-19 pandemic is exposing pre-existing systemic inequalities that benefit some and disadvantage others. How can the Anabaptist family respond? Mennonite World Conference has invited Anabaptist mission and... more/más/suite
New MWC website is mobile friendly and multilingual
Posted: 五月 14, 2020 | Category: News
A fresh look will greet web visitors to mwc-cmm.org after 11 May 2020. The website has been redesigned with greater functionality. Mobile viewers will find responsive design that displays well on a smaller screen. MWC teaching documents, worship... more/más/suite
Year-old West African church plants three others
Posted: 四月 24, 2020 | Category: News
“Yahweh, Yahweh!” Jubilant singing ricocheted off the stucco walls of the Bissau-Guinean Mennonite meetinghouse. Participants at the annual conference of Mennonite Church West Africa (MCWA) celebrated the growing interest of Christocentric theology... more/más/suite
Creation care and baptism report approved at Executive Committee meetings
Posted: 四月 23, 2020 | Category: News
Mennonite World Conference will appoint a creation care task force to raise awareness and propose actions for our global church family. The task force will work in closely with the four MWC commissions. “This [discussion] comes at the right time,”... more/más/suite
Spaghetti and chopsticks: Mutual transformation in YAMEN!
Posted: 四月 21, 2020 | Category: News
This story was written in February 2020, before the COVID-19 pandemic became a worldwide threat. As of April 2020, Minear Mak is still serving in her YAMEN assignment, remaining in close contact with MCC and MWC administrators as health and... more/más/suite
Check your inbox: MWC publishes Courier by email only
Posted: 四月 21, 2020 | Category: News
“These is an extraordinary time we are living in, but we remain confident that Jesus Christ is our hope, no matter what life brings,” says MWC general secretary César García. Due to the global economic slowdown and the challenges of moving mail... more/más/suite
Church in times of Coronavirus
Posted: 四月 21, 2020 | Category: News
An Easter Letter Dear sisters and brothers in the Global Anabaptist family of the MWC, We greet you in the name of our Risen Lord! Christ is risen! He is risen, indeed! We are an Easter people Easter has come, but not gone! Our celebrations may have... more/más/suite
Passion for service: meet Shirley Redekop
Posted: 三月 29, 2020 | Category: News
“Even with all our diversity of culture, language and practice, our Anabaptist theology draws us together as a family of faith through Christ’s love and sacrifice for us,” says Shirley Redekop. She begins a half-time role as MWC chief development... more/más/suite
Do not fear: prayers for COVID-19
Posted: 三月 23, 2020 | Category: News
With Coronavirus (COVID-19) unsettling the global human family, Mennonite World Conference leaders put confidence in the living God who says, “Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you... more/más/suite
Call to prayer for the human family
Posted: 三月 23, 2020 | Category: News
During the plague that ravaged third-century Alexandria, Bishop Cyprian tirelessly served the suffering with calm assurance that Christians find hope in Jesus Christ whether they live or die. Today, in a time of pandemic, Christian communions around... more/más/suite
God’s call for our church and mission
Posted: 三月 17, 2020 | Category: News
“The church will slow down the work of Mennonite Central Committee,” someone told me at the 2008 MCC New Wine, New Wineskins consultative meeting in Winnipeg. “If we want to be a more effective NGO, we need to act independently from the church,” he... more/más/suite
Renewal 2027 and Executive Committee meetings in B.C. cancelled
Posted: 三月 14, 2020 | Category: News
With the World Health Organization using the word “pandemic” to describe global infection from the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), Mennonite World Conference leadership decided to cancel the March Renewal 2027 public event and April Executive... more/más/suite
Amnesty for Sangmin Lee
Posted: 三月 11, 2020 | Category: 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... more/más/suite
So reciprocal understanding could grow
Posted: 二月 17, 2020 | Category: News
The 2019 meeting of European Mennonite leaders took place on a historical date for Germany: the anti-Semitic pogroms of the Reichskristallnacht (“night of broken glass”) 9–10 November 1938 when Nazi paramilitary forces and civilians throughout... more/más/suite
Mennonite World Conference calls for prayer and precautionary measures
Posted: 二月 10, 2020 | Category: News
Following the World Health Organization’s declaration of the novel coronavirus (nCoV) outbreak as a global health emergency 30 January 2020, Mennonite World Conference calls for Anabaptist and Mennonite congregations around the world to unite in... more/más/suite
Following Jesus into Assembly
Posted: 一月 27, 2020 | Category: News
Crossing barriers at Assembly 2021 in Indonesia begins with the Assembly program committee. These volunteers appointed to develop the activities and schedule of Mennonite World Conference’s flagship event, the global Assembly, come from 5 different... more/más/suite
Growing team serves church
Posted: 一月 14, 2020 | Category: News
A composer, health manager and auto mechanic – all church leaders – joined the Mennonite World Conference team. These newly appointed regional representatives complete the team that helps Mennonite World Conference and its member churches maintain a... more/más/suite
Solidarity with a Mennonite church at a crossroad
Posted: 一月 13, 2020 | Category: News
From 1–8 December 2019, a joint delegation from Mennonite World Conference’s Peace Commission and Deacons Commission visited three Mennonite churches in Hong Kong, other denominations and also some educational institutions to offer solidarity and to... more/más/suite
Top stories in 2019
Posted: 十二月 20, 2019 | Category: News
English readers were interested in the news that general secretary César García and executive assistant Sandra Báez Rojas of Mennonite World Conference (MWC) have relocated to Canada in February 2019. They also enjoyed the testimony of YAMENers . “... more/más/suite
Two letters renounce violence
Posted: 十二月 19, 2019 | Category: News
“Renounce violence and love our enemies.” This is part of being a peacemaker in Mennonite World Conference’s Shared Convictions. Living out that conviction, 13 September 2019, 13 Anabaptist churches in the USA signed a letter to the National... more/más/suite
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