Iglesia Cristiana Menonita de Colombia (IMCOL—Colombian Mennonite Church) is a conference of around 20 churches in Bogotá and the west and north.
The vision of IMCOL (Colombia Mennonite Church) is to have its ministries grow out of its congregations and their commitments as they live out the gospel in their contexts. IMCOL’s strategic plan for 2020-2025 focuses on forming Anabaptist identity, developing churches as solid and sustainable faith communities, building trust, and strengthening organizational and institutional capacity.
The Colombia Mennonite Church developed from the work of General Conference Mennonite Church missionaries who arrived in Colombia in 1945. As a partner, Mennonite Mission Network supports the Colombia Mennonite Church with personnel and grants for ministries, especially in the areas of leadership development, church planting, and missions. The church operates a seminary (Seminario Bíblico Menonita de Colombia — SBMC), retreat center and a school Colegio Americano Menno. Committees for missions and church planting serve actively internationally and within the country. Congregations actively support displaced people, Venezuelan immigrants and others in need in their communities.
In the year 2000 Mennonite Mission Network, the Colombia Mennonite Church, and Central Plains Mennonite Conference formed the Ecuador Partnership, which focuses on Mennonite church development and indigenous ministries. In 2014 IMCOL invited Central Plains Mennonite Conference and Mennonite Mission Network to also partner together in Venezuela, supporting leadership development and church-planting ministries. Invitations from both the ministry team in Iquitos, Peru and the Missions Committee of IMCOL led to a visit in 2016 and subsequent opportunities for Mission Network involvement in ministries there with children, adolescents and youth.
