Tag: Global Anabaptist community

  • A supportive space

    A supportive space

    The mission of Mennonite World Conference (MWC) is to create space for the global Anabaptist family to meet together. Much of the time, it is fulfilled virtually, on social media or through email connections across continents. But once every three years, the General Council, MWC commissions, and the Global Mission Fellowship and Global Anabaptist Service…

  • Heeding the call

    Heeding the call

    As one amateur Mennonite historian likes to point out, the only real Mennonite name is Menno Simons. From there on down through history, the rest of the family names are just “add-ons.” But after a series of Mennonite World Conference (MWC) general secretaries named Dyck (1961-73), Kraybill (1973-90) and Miller (1990-2011), the García name stands…

  • A new Mennonite archetype

    I have never met César García, but I am impressed with his story as told by Meetinghouse freelancer Kathy Heinrichs Wiest on page 4. García is the general secretary-elect of Mennonite World Conference. He seems to have a special narrative, one which might make him the new Mennonite archetype for the 21st century. He just…