Can we see it?
It’s a summer of church gatherings. It’s a summer of truth-telling about the devastating impact of colonization by the church. It’s a summer of reflection on what it means to be a post-colonial church. I took in what I could of the Pope’s visit to Canada. His language around the impact of the colonial church…
Diversity in our unity: Belonging to each other in the body of Christ
When I was a young adult volunteer in Jamaica, part of Mennonite Central Committee’s Serving and Learning Together (SALT) program, I brought a pie to a Mennonite church-sponsored baking competition and was disqualified because my mango pie did not fit the unstated criteria of being a sweet potato pudding. I realized that day my definition…
Crossing barriers to reach out to the other
César García With the 17th Mennonite World Conference (MWC) assembly set for Indonesia this July, Canadian Mennonite magazine’s senior writer, Will Braun, talked to César García, the Colombian who serves as MWC’s general secretary. They talked about Assembly 17, challenges facing Anabaptists globally and the unique Mennonite churches of Indonesia. The interview has been edited…
MWC Executive Committee approves expansion plan
In online Mennonite World Conference (MWC) meetings in mid-November 2020, the Executive Committee approved expansion of MWC’s structure to include new specialized networks. Deliberation of the proposal to accept new emerging networks into MWC’s structure occupied much of the meetings. The peace, health and education networks would expand MWC by creating an official relationship with…
Pandemic fund targets inequalities in global church
“What a joy it is for the brothers and sisters [of the Bateke Plateau] to feel themselves a part of the larger Mennonite family,” says Reverend Seraphin Kutumbana of Communauté Mennonite au Congo, a Mennonite World Conference (MWC) member church. Comite National Inter Mennonite (CONIM) brought together MWC national member churches Communauté Mennonite au Congo,…
Locked down but uplifted
“The love from Indonesia.” For Enosh Rupamajhi, Jeu Song and Olicky Muchindu—members of the Young Anabaptist Mennonite Exchange Network (YAMEN)—the warmth of relationship from their hosts and each other is a hallmark of their year. YAMEN, is a joint program of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) and Mennonite World Conference (MWC) that offers young adults from…
Global Mennonite enviro task force established
The mandate of a new Mennonite World Conference (MWC) creation care task force states that, “MWC is a global communion of Anabaptist churches that are together facing the climate crisis.” It then asks: “What does it mean to follow Jesus into this crisis?” The task force is to: explore ways in which MWC member churches…
