A conversation with Karen Spicher and Jae Young Lee
Mike Sherrill, director of Asia and the Middle East for Mennonite Mission Network, interviews Karen Spicher and Jae Young Lee about their work in South Korea, their sabbatical here in the United States, and their experience during this time of COVID-19. Karen Spicher serves as the communications coordinator for Northeast Asia Regional Peace Building Institute […]
Amidst a world pandemic, the work of God continues
The COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the world, prompting both isolationist practices and panic as the world attempts to quell the virus. The world is changing before our eyes. Places of worship lay empty as congregations meet in the virtual world. Without active clientele, small businesses close, unable to maintain their expenses in the wake […]
Compassion, bravery, and the pursuit of hope
Humans have faced crises before: plagues, wars, economic meltdowns, and widespread devastating famines. I believe that it is not trite or reckless to say we will get beyond this pandemic also. All of us must act responsibly. We must, among other things, practice physical distancing, we must wash our hands, and we must wear masks. […]
Hechos para más – Guía Visual
Exponential presentó 3 nuevos marcos de referencia de multiplicación para el tema del 2019. Estos marcos de referencia se enfocan en ayudar a los líderes de iglesias a movilizar al pueblo de Dios, a la manera de Dios. ¡Imagina a cada seguidor de Jesús liberado para ser misioneros cotidianos en sus campos misioneros cotidianos donde […]
Building a Discipling Culture, 3rd Edition
Much ink and many pages have been devoted to all of the missional issues facing the Western church today. As our culture becomes more post-Christian with each passing day, we are all realizing that what has worked in the past is no longer working, that we are far less effective for the Kingdom than we […]
Made for More Visual Guide
The Made for More Visual Guide provides a vision and roadmap for releasing the huge latent capacity that is pent up within the people of God. This "read in an hour," visually engaging, resource introduces and integrates three new frameworks to help shift your ministry from a volunteer based "we can do it you can help" approach […]
Peek into Service Adventure — Jackson, Mississippi
Curious what a Service Adventure placement looks like? Let Risa Fukaya show you! Risa was a participant with the 2019-2020 Service Adventure – Jackson, Mississippi unit, and served with Stewpot Community Services, Inc. Clothing Closet and the Education Learning Station afterschool program.
Omnibus Edition
The image on the cover of this issue of Anabaptist Witness is a painting by our designer, Matt Veith, of a medieval church in Italy from a travel advertisement. The architecture—with the colonial-era buildings that bear resemblance to styles elsewhere in the world, particularly in the Americas—reminds me of a form of Christianity, and of Christian mission, […]
The newborn of God renews older congregation
Shortly after Christmas last year, Naun Cerrato, a participant in Mennonite Mission Network’s Sent Network church-planting training, was primed to launch Iglesia Menonita Piedra Viva (Life Stone Mennonite Church), a new Hispanic peace congregation in Elkhart, Indiana. But without rental finances, his fledging community feared there would be "no room at the inn" in which to be born. At about […]
El recién nacido de Dios renueva una congregación más antigua
Poco después de Navidad del año pasado, Naun Cerrato, un participante de la capacitación sobre plantación de iglesias de la Red Sent (Enviados) de la Red Menonita de Misión, estaba listo para el lanzamiento de la Iglesia Menonita Piedra Viva, una congregación de paz hispana nueva en Elkhart, Indiana. Pero sin seguridad financiera para alquilar […]
A conversation with José Oyanguren and Maria Alfonsina Finger
Alfonsina Finger and José Oyanguren and their family live in Castelli in the Argentine Chaco where they work with indigenous churches and communities. Their sending church is Iglesia Menonita Bragado in central Argentina, and two Ohio congregations, Sonnnenberg (Kidron) and Pike (Elida), partner through Mennonite Mission Network. This video emerged through an initiative from Sonnenberg […]
MOVEMENTS Do we want them badly enough to change
Do you want a movement of disciple-making and church-planting to take place in your city, where disciples make disciples and churches plant churches faster than the growth in population? How badly do you want it? Do you want it badly enough to change the way you have always done church or lived your own personal […]