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“Remember your baptism”
Posted: Tháng 10 30, 2024 | Mục phân loại: From Our Leaders
Could Anabaptist-Mennonites practice “remembering our baptism” as a tool for lifelong discipleship? Although they often baptize infants, both Catholics and Lutherans call upon the believer – sometimes every year – to “remember your baptism” into a... Xem thêm
Investing in young adults is key
Posted: Tháng 10 27, 2024 | Mục phân loại: Testimonies
“Investing in young adults is a key way to move forward. Mennonite World Conference is the best way I can imagine to do that,” said Doug Klassen, executive minister of Mennonite Church Canada and the North America representative on MWC’s Executive... Xem thêm
Making the broken beautiful
Posted: Tháng 10 24, 2024 | Mục phân loại: Testimonies
“Participation in football and tree planting together provided shared experiences that that went a long way in uniting individuals from different religious and ethnic backgrounds,” said Rev. George Ochieng, general secretary of Kenya Mennonite... Xem thêm
They just want me to learn
Posted: Tháng 10 18, 2024 | Mục phân loại: Testimonies
From Indonesia to Bolivia – a YAMEN year through the five senses: Taste: fresh food (especially the meat) Touch: tight hugs and kissing the cheeks with sound Smell: sun on the skin Hear: noise of a city (microbuses, taxis, people who talk loudly,... Xem thêm
Revenge songs then and now
Posted: Tháng 10 8, 2024 | Mục phân loại: News
What do music star Shakira and biblical prophet Deborah have in common? In a special service on 6 September 2024, Riki Neufeld explored revenge songs through a peace lens with the Mennonite congregation in Hamburg-Altona, Germany. The Center for... Xem thêm
Prayer: To hope and act with creation
Posted: Tháng 10 4, 2024 | Mục phân loại: Testimonies
The Season of Creation , an annual ecumenical initiative, concludes with the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi on 4 October. Inspired by his Canticle of Creatures and Romans 8:19-25, this prayer invites us to praise, repent and lament, and then “to... Xem thêm
Grieving a year of increasing violence in the Middle East
Posted: Tháng 10 3, 2024 | Mục phân loại: From Our Leaders
A pastoral letter on October 7, 2024 Beloved brothers and sisters of the global Anabaptist/Mennonite communion: With heavy hearts, we mark the one-year anniversary of terrible events that signalled the beginning of a new cycle of violence in the... Xem thêm
Counting on love
Posted: Tháng 9 23, 2024 | Mục phân loại: From Our Leaders
In 2025, the global Anabaptist movement looks back over 500 years of existence. Mennonite World Conference invites all to a major event on Ascension Day,29 May 2025, in Zurich, Switzerland. Even as we look back on a long past, the focus of the... Xem thêm
Sharing of gifts with other church communions
Posted: Tháng 9 19, 2024 | Mục phân loại: News
“Being chair at the Conference of Secretaries of Christian World Communions is a role of service. It is a role where you serve other secretaries by preparing the agenda, logistics and materials for our meeting, and leading and facilitating robust... Xem thêm
500th anniversary website revealed
Posted: Tháng 9 11, 2024 | Mục phân loại: News
“Anniversaries are a time to stop and reflect: we remember where we have come from, consider who we are today and anticipate where God is calling us to be,” says César García, MWC general secretary. “The courage to love” is the theme for Mennonite... Xem thêm
Faithfulness in action
Posted: Tháng 9 5, 2024 | Mục phân loại: Testimonies
The environmental crisis and our mandate to care for creation A word of encouragement from the MWC Faith & Life Commission and the Creation Care Task Force . Part 2 of 2 “Creation care” is taking on ever-increasing urgency. The news reminds us... Xem thêm
The unity of the Spirit
Posted: Tháng 8 30, 2024 | Mục phân loại: From Our Leaders
About the Faith & Life Commission Anabaptist churches around the world live their faith diversely, addressing local challenges and opportunities while adhering to Shared Convictions . The Faith & Life Commission enables MWC member churches... Xem thêm
100 years of evangelism in DR Congo
Posted: Tháng 8 22, 2024 | Mục phân loại: News
“100 years of evangelism in Congo.” From 4-11 August 2024, Communauté des Églises des Frères Mennonites au Congo celebrated the 100th anniversary of their national church. The celebration in Kikwit – delayed by two years due to the pandemic –... Xem thêm
New staff build on foundation
Posted: Tháng 8 21, 2024 | Mục phân loại: News
Mennonite World Conference lives out unity through relationships. There have been some changes to the faces that help develop these relationships, through regional representatives and communications. Regional representative coordinator Janet Plenert... Xem thêm
Courageous choirs sing of love in Zurich
Posted: Tháng 8 16, 2024 | Mục phân loại: News
Anabaptist Christians in a predominantly Muslim neighbourhood of 137 000 residents in Nairobi practice “The Courage to Love” on a daily basis. “Our modest Anabaptist congregation faces acceptance, evangelism and cultural fusion difficulties,” says... Xem thêm
MWC general secretary joins urgent call for peace
Posted: Tháng 8 9, 2024 | Mục phân loại: News
MWC general secretary César García joined more than 200 global Christian leaders to sign a letter calling “with heartfelt insistence, for a comprehensive and permanent ceasefire, for the return of hostages, and the release of Palestinian prisoners... Xem thêm
God so loved the cosmos...
Posted: Tháng 8 5, 2024 | Mục phân loại: From Our Leaders
The environmental crisis and our mandate to care for creation A word of encouragement from the MWC Faith & Life Commission and the Creation Care Task Force . Part 1 of 2 “Creation care” is taking on ever-increasing urgency. The news reminds us... Xem thêm
Angola church supports women
Posted: Tháng 7 25, 2024 | Mục phân loại: News
“Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress” (James 1:27). Igreja Evangelica Menonita Em Angola (IEMA) has taken this to heart with a lending project to promote small business... Xem thêm
In Memoriam: Bijoy Kumar Roul (1950-2024)
Posted: Tháng 7 24, 2024 | Mục phân loại: News
Dr. Bijoy Kumar Roul, founder and chair of the Brethren in Christ (BIC) Church, Cuttack, Odisha, India, died 12 July 2024. He represented BIC Odisha on Mennonite World Conference’s General Council since the church became a member in 2003. “I had... Xem thêm
We know God better through the global family
Posted: Tháng 7 18, 2024 | Mục phân loại: Testimonies
“Through Mennonite World Conference (MWC), I learn what it means to be a global citizen, and that the church is much bigger than my own local congregation,” says Agus Mayanto (Southeast Asia). “We are all brothers and sisters and not strangers... Xem thêm
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