The first time I visited Lithuania, pastor Valdas picked me up from the Šiauliai (pronounced “show-lie”) train station and asked, “You want to see something unique? We have a little …
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What can a church in Fresno, Cal., do to respond to suffering in Ukraine? In December 2014, the Warm Churches project was born out of conversations between pastor Fred Leonard …
St. Patrick established Christianity in Ireland in the early fifth century by returning to the land of his enemies to bring the gospel, and suffering persecution and deprivation. Tradition holds …
Drawing from his travels to visit MB churches around the world, ICOMB executive director David Wiebe offers insights on faith A church in the rainforest We sat in silence. Some …
There wasn’t a dry eye in the room. Roman Rakhuba recounted the latest events in his home country of Ukraine to the gathering of Mennonite leaders of Europe in Lisbon, …
I was quite amused, sitting there in church. It was the end of May, a sunny 30 degrees in upcountry Angola.
Weary of buying meaningless trinkets for loved ones who have everything? Our partner organizations offer gifts that give back. For the soccer mom: $30 buys transit tickets for a refugee …
Iglesia Evangélica Unida Hermanos Menonitas de Panamá (United Evangelical Church of Mennonite Brethren in Panama) Congregations: 13 Members: 750 Panama is situated at the crux of two continents – …
Vereinigung der Mennoniten Brüder Gemeinden Paraguays & Convención Evangélica de Iglesias Paraguayas Hermanos Menonitas (The German and Spanish Mennonite Brethren conferences of Paraguay) Congregations: 30 & 65 Members: 3,112 …
Through the Global Scholarship Fund, the International Community of Mennonite Brethren (ICOMB) is helping the global MB family foster a heart for mission to the world, from the world.
During the Protestant Reformation, 80% of Austrians followed the Reformers, particularly Luther. But under the Hapsburg Counter-Reformation, many of the citizens became re-Catholicized and the Roman Catholic church became a …
Laisvujų krikščionių bažnyčia (LKB) (Free Christian Church [of Lithuania]) Congregations: 7 Members: 207 Lithuania’s history includes alternating periods of proud independence and foreign occupation. It was the first …
This past May, I travelled to Luanda, Angola. There, I had the privilege of representing the Canadian conference to our global family, the International Community of Mennonite Brethren (ICOMB). Representatives …
A 30-hour detention didn’t keep international partners from attending the annual summit of the International Community of Mennonite Brethren in Luanda, Angola, May 22–24, 2014.
Uruguay was founded by the Spanish in 1726 as a military stronghold and is today the most “European” of South American countries both by its population (88% white, 8% mestizo, …