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New MWC network to encourage, support and connect peacebuilders
Posted: April 30, 2018 | Category: News
Around the world, Mennonite World Conference (MWC) member churches act out the belief that the Spirit of Jesus empowers us to…become peacemakers who renounce violence, love our enemies, seek justice and share our possessions with those in need (MWC... more/más/suite
MWC resources churches: General Council, book
Posted: April 23, 2018 | Category: News
Mennonite World Conference weaves a web of connections within the Anabaptist Mennonite family around the world through website, emails, social media, publishing and relations with other organizations. Here are some new connecting points. Regional... more/más/suite
Mennonites speak against nationalism
Posted: April 11, 2018 | Category: News
“Nationalism is on the rise in many parts of the world,” says Juerg Braeker, general secretary of Konferenz der Mennoniten der Schweiz/Conférence mennonite suisse (the Swiss Mennonite church). “Mennonites, because of their view of the relationship... more/más/suite
Nepal church celebrates growth
Posted: April 2, 2018 | Category: News
In 2000, the Brethren in Christ (BIC) church board of Nepal sent Bhagan Chaunde to Surunga, Jhapa, Nepal, to plant churches. The passionate evangelist shared the gospel and planted a church. Starting with one new believer, Surunga Church has grown... more/más/suite
Representatives and resources
Posted: March 2, 2018 | Category: News
Bogotá, Colombia – Mennonite World Conference weaves a web of connections within the Anabaptist Mennonite family around the world through website, emails, social media, publishing and relations with other organizations. Here are some new connecting... more/más/suite
MWC responds in solidarity to disasters
Posted: March 2, 2018 | Category: News
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada – “Our hearts were left totally destroyed…but thanks to MWC, who have come to visit us and have given us this uplifting and encouraging word, a word of hope and love,” says Antonio García Dominguez, leader of Conferencia... more/más/suite
Canadian seniors give for sustainability
Posted: February 26, 2018 | Category: News
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada – Eighty-nine-year-old John Penner still goes to work three times a week in the business he co-owns with his sons in Calgary. Travelling days are over – he walks with cane and his wife Katie relies on a walker – but “we... more/más/suite
Catholic, Lutheran, Mennonite, Trilateral Dialogue Commission on Baptism
Posted: January 26, 2018 | Category: News
The Commission developed the general topic of the dialogue “Baptism and Incorporation into the Body of Christ, the Church” through papers on “Baptism: Communicating Grace and Faith.” Professors John Rempel and Fernando Enns (Mennonite), Rev Prof... more/más/suite
A transformative year: YAMEN participants meet God and people
Posted: January 10, 2018 | Category: News
Bogotá, Colombia – “The gospel connects us all no matter where we are,” says Laurey Segura. She lived out this realization as a teacher and youth worker with the help of Young Anabaptist Mennonite Exchange Network (YAMEN), a joint Mennonite Central... more/más/suite
MWC – new pictures, people and publication
Posted: November 15, 2017 | Category: News
Mennonite World Conference weaves a web of connections within the Anabaptist Mennonite family around the world through website, emails, social media, publishing and relations with other organizations. Here are some new connecting points. MWC’s... more/más/suite
First Mennonite Brethren serves in DRC government
Posted: November 15, 2017 | Category: News
Hillsboro, Kan., USA – Maleghi Lumeya has recently been appointed Ministre des affaires foncières (minister of land [property]) of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Lumeya, who has served as a national congressman, is the first Mennonite Brethren to... more/más/suite
Global encyclopedia commits to global content
Posted: November 7, 2017 | Category: News
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada – John D. Roth, Mennonite World Conference Faith and Life Commission secretary, was appointed general editor of the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (GAMEO – www.gameo.org ). The GAMEO board voted... more/más/suite
MWC facilitates interdependent response to Peru flooding
Posted: October 24, 2017 | Category: News
Bogotá, Colombia – Maria Justa Ipanaque (34) never imagined that she would ride in a helicopter. The small-scale farmer who lives with her husband Ezequiel Ramos Sánchez (40) and five children in Chato Chico, Piura, Peru, became trapped in her house... more/más/suite
Anabaptists respond to violence and displacement in DR Congo
Posted: October 24, 2017 | Category: News
Akron, Pennsylvania, USA – A collaborative Anabaptist response will soon reach some of the 1.4 million people displaced by armed conflict in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) with food, household items and shelter... more/más/suite
Spanish speaking YAMENers face unique challenges in Latin American placements
Posted: September 1, 2017 | Category: News
Serving in an area of the world relatively close to your home country where the dominant language is the same as your own might seem relatively easy. But Young Anabaptist Mennonite Exchange Network (YAMEN) participants who hail from Latin American... more/más/suite
Angolan Mennonites welcome refugees
Posted: September 1, 2017 | Category: News
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada – “The situation is very serious,” says Francisca Ibanda, Mennonite World Conference regional representative for Central/West Africa. The UN expects more than 50,000 people from DR Congo to become refugees in Angola in... more/más/suite
MWC – new on the web: Building bridges with Peace Sunday
Posted: September 1, 2017 | Category: News
Mennonite World Conference weaves a web of connections within the Anabaptist Mennonite family around the world through website, emails, social media, publishing and relations with other organizations. Several new connecting points are emerging over... more/más/suite
MWC has beauty to be shared
Posted: July 22, 2017 | Category: News
Bogota, Colombia – “MWC is a global family through which we experience our participation in the body of Christ,” says general secretary César García. Social media is one place we participate with each other across geographical boundaries. “We are a... more/más/suite
New bishops in Tanzania plan for revival
Posted: July 22, 2017 | Category: News
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada – The church in Tanzania underwent revival in the 1940s–1980s and the leaders of Kanisa la Mennonite Tanzania (KMT) are ready to welcome it again. The newly elected bishops have cast a vision to expand the Mennonite church... more/más/suite
“God is with us”: Peruvian MBs help neighbours amid loss
Posted: June 29, 2017 | Category: News
Bogotá, Colombia – It seems a providential convergence that Mennonite World Conference’s Andean regional representative Pablo Stucky had planned to visit Peru in early April. His previously scheduled meetings with church leaders came shortly after... more/más/suite
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