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Protecting children
Posted: mei 17, 2019 | Categorie: Testimonies
“Is it actually necessary to think about those topics (abuse, neglect)? I mean, we are part of a Christian church!” This is a common reaction I get while educating people about the topic of “Safe Church.”* Sadly, though, it is a fact that churches... Lees meer
"Let the little children come to me"
Posted: mei 17, 2019 | Categorie: Testimonies
“Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs” (Mathew 19:14). The Gospels record Jesus saying these words to those who want to remove the children from his presence. Jesus... Lees meer
Growing forgiveness
Posted: mei 17, 2019 | Categorie: News
It took about 490 years for government officials in Bern, Switzerland, to ask for forgiveness for persecution of Anabaptists in the region. It took less than two to get a response from Swiss Mennonites. Delegates from every congregation in Konferenz... Lees meer
Ministry partner update: ICOMB – May 2019
Posted: mei 16, 2019 | Categorie: 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... Lees meer
From darkness to light
Posted: mei 8, 2019 | Categorie: Testimonies
No matter how many times you visit India, the overcrowded cities, hazy air and animal-people-vehicle jammed streets of this country with more than 1.3 billion people are an assault to your physical senses and inner spirit. The contrast between light... Lees meer
Justice on the journey: Migration
Posted: mei 6, 2019 | Categorie: 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... Lees meer
Born for mission, die for mission
Posted: mei 2, 2019 | Categorie: Testimonies
Renewal 2027 testimony: Anabaptists today Renewal 2027 is a 10-year series of events organized by Mennonite World Conference’s Faith and Life Commission to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the beginnings of the Anabaptist movement. This series... Lees meer
Making up
Posted: april 23, 2019 | Categorie: Testimonies
Children’s ministry resource This story illustrates a way of worshiping with children. The author believes it is very important to both acknowledge the children’s connection with God and the sacredness of learning from Scripture at the beginning of... Lees meer
“Every second, God is here, helping me”
Posted: april 23, 2019 | Categorie: News
“A chapter of my story was written while with YAMEN,” says Diana Martínez. The young church leader from Colombia served as an educational assistant at Casa Hogar Belén, a children’s home in Managua, Nicaragua, 2017–2018 through YAMEN. YAMEN (Young... Lees meer
Ministry partner update: ICOMB – April 2019
Posted: april 23, 2019 | Categorie: 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... Lees meer
Challenge and hope on the road
Posted: april 15, 2019 | Categorie: News
“We enthusiastically celebrate that we are a Christo-centric borderless faith community, because as part of Mennonite World Conference, we fraternally unite with 107 Anabaptist and Mennonite [national churches and one international association]... Lees meer
Praying through the decades
Posted: april 11, 2019 | Categorie: Testimonies
A Sunday school assignment in the 1940s to exchange letters with a missionary began a Canadian woman’s a lifelong investment in prayer for India. A Sunday school teacher at Elmira Mennonite Church assigned teenaged Erla Buehler to write to Lena... Lees meer
A recipe to cure homesickness
Posted: april 3, 2019 | Categorie: Testimonies
Laos and Indonesia are both in South East Asia, so some kinds of food are similar. But sometimes, as Laotian teaching English on YAMEN in Indonesia, I miss Lao food. When I make food from home, it helps me to not feel as homesick. Cooking Lao food... Lees meer
Mennonite Church West Africa celebrates credentialed pastors
Posted: april 2, 2019 | Categorie: News
During its 2018 annual conference, Mennonite Church West Africa (MCWA) celebrated its first-ever credentialed leaders: Adriano MBackeh, Sangpierre Mendy, Daniel Djin-ale, and Gibby Mane. More than 200 joyous attendees – the most ever for this type... Lees meer
General secretary relocates
Posted: maart 19, 2019 | Categorie: News
General secretary César García and executive assistant Sandra Báez Rojas of Mennonite World Conference (MWC) have relocated to Canada in February 2019 to work out of the Kitchener, Ontario, office. MWC is an international communion of Anabaptist... Lees meer
Ministry partner update: ICOMB – March 2019
Posted: maart 18, 2019 | Categorie: 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... Lees meer
A little more light
Posted: maart 15, 2019 | Categorie: 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... Lees meer
Remember and learn
Posted: maart 8, 2019 | Categorie: Testimonies
At Renewal 2027 – The Holy Spirit Transforming Us in Kisumu, Kenya, 21 April 2018, several people shared a testimony of one experience of the Spirit’s work changing people in the church. Several of the columns in this section have been adapted from... Lees meer
From ordinary to history maker
Posted: maart 8, 2019 | Categorie: Testimonies
At Renewal 2027 – The Holy Spirit Transforming Us in Kisumu, Kenya, 21 April 2018, several people shared a testimony of one experience of the Spirit’s work changing people in the church. Several of the columns in this section have been adapted from... Lees meer
Mentoring: Open up, share what we have
Posted: maart 6, 2019 | Categorie: Testimonies
Mentoring is a key strategy of senior pastor Reverend Albert Ndlovu of Lobengula Brethren in Christ Church, Zimbabwe. Raised in this environment, leaders are now serving in the United Kingdom and South Africa – still connected to their mentors at... Lees meer
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