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Spanish speaking YAMENers face unique challenges in Latin American placements
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... 続きを読む
Angolan Mennonites welcome refugees
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... 続きを読む
MWC – new on the web: Building bridges with Peace Sunday
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... 続きを読む
MWC has beauty to be shared
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... 続きを読む
New bishops in Tanzania plan for revival
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... 続きを読む
“God is with us”: Peruvian MBs help neighbours amid loss
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... 続きを読む
Called to justice: Mennonite churches respond to migration crisis in Mexico
Bogota, Colombia – “The Bible invites us to remember that the people of Israel were also strangers; they were captives and were deported,” says Carlos Martínez, Conferencia de Iglesias Evangélicas Anabautistas Menonitas de México. “The [early]... 続きを読む
MWC provides care after the storm
Bogotá, Colombia – A 15th birthday celebration at their church, Casa de Oración, drew Ignacio and Liliana’s family out of their house in Manta, Ecuador, earlier than usual on 16 April, 2016, just before an earthquake struck. The 7.8 Richter scale... 続きを読む
New name? MWC considers identity and brand
Bogota, Colombia – When someone mispronounces or misspells your name, does it seem as though they aren’t quite addressing you? We choose names carefully – perhaps to honour someone or express a hoped-for characteristic; they form part of our sense... 続きを読む
The heart at work: Commissions meet
Bogotá, Colombia – MWC’s Renewal 2027 event in Augsburg, Germany, was bookended by meetings of its decision-making bodies and working groups, including a face-to-face gathering of the four Mennonite World Conference (MWC) Commissions: Deacons,... 続きを読む
Health network issues global call
Bogotá, Colombia – Mennonite and Brethren health care leaders from around the world are developing a network to foster collaboration and support among related organizations. The leaders of the emerging Global Anabaptist Health Network (GAHN), a... 続きを読む
The perfect placement: A Kenyan Mennonite in the MCC UN Office
New York, USA – Right outside the window from my desk at the MCC UN Office on the 10th floor of the Church Center for the United Nations, I can see the UN entrance and the Kenyan flag, which unexpectedly brews the feeling of patriotism; I am... 続きを読む
MWC執行委員会：熟議し、歓迎し、祝う
【コロンビア、ボゴタ】メノナイト世界会議（MWC）の「リニューアル２０２７」（宗教改革におけるアナバプティズムの誕生を記念する１０年がかりのイベント）を始めるにあたり、執行委員会がドイツで開催され、記録的な数の新入会員が参加を認められた。 アウグスブルク（ドイツ）で２０１７年２月１２日に開催された集会「み言葉によって変えられる：アナバプテストの視点で聖書を読む」をはさんで、執行委員会、４つの委員会、ヤング・アナバプテスト（YABs）委員会がもたれ、MWCスタッフと各地域の代表者が集い、... 続きを読む
先住民族のたたかいに連帯
【コロンビア、ボゴタ】2016年4月から2017年1月にかけて、先住民族と支援者がアメリカ北部に集まり、聖なる埋葬地を破壊し飲み水を汚染するおそれがあるとして、パイプラインの建設に反対した。アメリカをはじめ世界中のメノナイト教会の有志がスタンディング・ロック保留地のスー族に連帯し、土地の保全と正義の実現を求めた。1月にはトランプ大統領が、パイプラインの建設を進める大統領令に署名した。 メノナイト世界会議に加盟する教会の中にも、... 続きを読む
「いまも聖書は語る」：リニューアル２０２７が開幕
【ドイツ、アウグスブルク】アナバプテスト／メノナイトの伝統が５００周年を迎えることを記念して、メノナイト世界会議（MWC）が開催する１０年がかりのイベント「リニューアル２０２７」の最初の行事「み言葉により変えられる：アナバプテストの視点で聖書を読む」が２０１７年２月１２日に開催され、アナバプテストの教会指導者が世界各地から集まった。今や地球規模となった再洗礼派運動をキリスト教会全体の中に位置づけて、評価と検討を加えていくためのもの。 自らの聖書理解に基づいて、再洗礼派は当初から、... 続きを読む
Dialogues on baptism close with learning and prayer
The commission discussed and developed its final report, entitled “Baptism and Incorporation into the Body of Christ, the Church,” drafted by professors Theo Dieter (Lutheran, France), William Henn (Catholic, US/Vatican) and John Rempel (Mennonite,... 続きを読む
MWCの会計について
メノナイト世界会議をサポートするために、加盟教会団体、各個教会、個人の皆さまから、継続的に献金が寄せられ、感謝しています。ただ、今年は例年よりも献金が寄せられるペースが遅く、８月末の時点では赤字になっています。とくに個人および各個教会からの献金が通常よりも集まっていません。多くの献金が寄せられる12月にどのくらい献金が寄せられるか、期待と不安が入り交じっています。 次の大会まで時間のあるこの時期にこそ、皆さんがMWCの働きを支え続けることを真剣に考えていただければ幸いです。 See www... 続きを読む
Congolese counter violence with prayer and workshops
Kinshasha, DR Congo – “Our God has contradicted mankind’s maneuvering. Praise our God,” says Pascal Kulungu, instructor at the Center for Peacebuilding, Leadership and Good Governance (CPLB), and member of Communauté des Églises de Frères Mennonites... 続きを読む
Songs, sermons and saucers
Bogotá Colombia – Music from other cultures, Scripture readings on a common theme, shared food and special offerings characterize World Fellowship Sunday, a celebration of Anabaptist family in Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches around the... 続きを読む
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