Earthquake. Famine. Flooding. The headlines catch attention, and people respond with prayers and donations to emergency appeals. A few days later, the reporting stops and the event fades from memory.…
“Instead, you must worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if someone asks about your Christian hope, always be ready to explain it” (1 Peter 3:15, NLT). The June…
Evangelical Anabaptist. Catholic Anabaptist. Pentecostal Anabaptist. I have used all these phrases in different contexts to explain my identity as a follower of Christ. In those sentences, the first word…
Creating space for people to meet Jesus in Downtown Winnipeg I sat with Gary on the corner of Portage and Donald in Winnipeg. Someone told me they’d seen him panhandling…
It was already dark when we turned off the main road onto a bumpy track through the forest. A delegation of the Mennonite World Conference Deacons Commission was visiting brothers…
Diversity and unity: both are proof of the presence of the Spirit of God.
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…
“The church must do its job, offering people charity and spiritual teaching, so that a person may be transformed,” says Safari Mutabesha Bahati. Mennonite Association for Peace and Development (MAPD)…
“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…
“The earth is the LORD’s and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it; for he has founded it on the seas, and established it…
In a region of Ukraine that thousands of Mennonites left generations ago, two dozen of today’s Mennonite leaders from across Europe gathered for three days of fellowship in October 2018.…
From a boat on the Sea of Galilee, a fisherman demonstrates the ancient art of casting a circular net. Weights along the outer edge sink rapidly, pulling the web around…
“Our global value of peacemaking is expressed in the Declaration of Solidarity with Indigenous Peoples,” says Mennonite World Conference general secretary César García. “How a church in South Korea or…
Anabaptist groups and individuals gathered together 8–12 October 2018 at Sammuk Christian Academy, Chonburi, Thailand, for the fourth Thailand Anabaptist Gathering (TAG). The Thai Mennonite Brethren leaders and MB…
Hope in Honduran gang territory For more than 20 years, gangs clashed in Chamelecón neighbourhood in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. The main street served as an invisible border, marking off…