Inspire hope choose peace
Choosing peace on Peace Island By Mike Sherrill When the people of God choose peace, we experience the fullness of God’s work in the world. The act of choosing peace — of denying the power of violence — inspires hope for all people and serves as a small window into who Jesus was and […]
Stories of Repair—A Reparative Justice Resource
This booklet is a compilation of stories from across the Mennonite church in the US and Canada that offer "next steps" of reparative justice in response to the Doctrine of Discovery, from returning land to Indigenous communities, to including restitution funds in church budgets, to supporting Indigenous struggles to protect lands and waters. "Stories of Repair" also includes theological […]
For MVS placement, every day is World Nature Conservation Day
Service and stewardship flow together A message from Mike Sherrill When I browse through the news section of our website, I’m reminded of just how incredible our partners are. The work they do, whether in migration outreach, hospitality, sustainability or countless other fields, truly is the work of God. Our friends at the RGHRP […]
Mission and Health
The gospels portray physical healing as a central component of Jesus’s ministry, and the Acts of the Apostles and the epistles suggest that healing was important in the early church. Caring for and restoring the integrity of the body is, in these New Testament examples, a sign of creation’s renewal and the arrival of God’s […]
Nos encontramos con Jesús en espacios sagrados
Resources in English Noviembre es el mes de la misión. Celebremos juntos lo que Dios está haciendo en el mundo y cómo Dios nos llama a compartir las buenas nuevas con otros. Les presentamos algunas herramientas para planificar una celebración de Domingo de Misión. Esperamos que les resulten útiles. Escrito por Joe Sawatzky, Especialista en Capacitación […]
Meeting Jesus in sacred spaces
Recursos en español November is mission month. Help us celebrate what God is doing in the world and how God calls us to share the good news with others. Here are some tools to plan a Mission Sunday celebration. We hope you’ll find them helpful. Written by Joe Sawatzky, Training and Resource Specialist — Mission Education […]
A joining of Pentecost and creation care
Creation care is a calling of the church A message from Mike Sherrill Pentecost: the day when the tongues of fire descended upon the believers gathered in the upper room, enabling them to speak in languages they’d never spoken, so all could understand. The Holy Spirit was empowering the church for the mission of […]
Mission and Formation
How are Anabaptists formed for witness? This issue of Anabaptist Witness calls attention to the dynamic process of communal and personal formation that impacts witness. Essays and poetry explore this theme in relation to disability, God images, sexuality, the Narrative Lectionary, and communities and mission work in Canada, Ethiopia, Mexico, and the United States. The […]
Hope and peace shine through in difficult times
We are being transformed By Mike Sherrill The only constant in the world is change, which most humans tend to resist. Change can be devastating — or it can be transformative. Sometimes change can sneak up on a society, like the multi-year pandemic that has sadly upended — and ended — lives all around the […]
Mission and Protest
In 1967 Vincent Harding challenged a Mennonite World Conference audience to follow Jesus by joining the protest movements that were then spreading around the world. As we experience another period of massive global protest, how might the church take up Harding’s invitation today? What does it mean to consider protest as part of the church’s […]