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Date: Jan 17, 2018 6:04 AM
Subject: MWC Info: Mennonites speak against nationalism
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January 2018 |
 | MWC Year in Review: 2017 How do we live out our Anabaptist identity? On World Fellowship Sunday, share this video about how MWC helped our churches around the world in 2017.
To download this video look for the download button on this page: https://vimeo.com/249690501 View video |  | Overcoming barriers and building empowerment Boundaries, barriers, blocks, bridges and empowerment have been very real to me. Through the years, I have learned to face challenges and to grow stronger in mind and beliefs. The Christian community in India has played an important role in bringing opportunities for women to become educated and liberated from the bondage of the belief that women are without their own identity. Read more |  | Mennonites speak against nationalism "Nationalism is on the rise in many parts of the world," says Juerg Braeker, general secretary of Konferenz der Mennoniten der Schweiz/Conférence mennonite suisse (the Swiss Mennonite church). "Mennonites, because of their view of the relationship between church and state, should be better equipped to point out the dangers of nationalism." Read more |  | Retired pastor still learning about Jesus and his people "We have to go to school [with] Jesus," says Erwin Cornelsen. The nearly 100-year-old retired pastor reads the Bible every day: "I'm still learning what Jesus has to teach me." Read more |  | Comfort food across the world Recipe: Ugali. "Ugali is a maize-meal bread-like food mostly eaten alongside chicken or beef stew, Kenyan kale and cabbage or sometimes eggs fried with onions and tomatoes. All you need to make it is water and flour, though some people use salt to make it tasty. It's consumed by almost everybody in Kenya: we call it energy-giving food." Read more |  | Pray for DRC Thank you for sending photos and prayers about DR Congo. MWC sent your encouraging words to the churches there. Please keep praying for our brothers and sisters who continue to experience political uncertainty and civic upheaval. View photos | Prayers of gratitude and intercession January 2018: "Then afterward I will pour out my spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions" (Joel 2:28). May we follow the guidance of the Holy Spirit in the year ahead. Pray for personal and communal transformation through God's Spirit as we participate in building the reign of God on earth. Click here for World Fellowship Sunday worship materials on the Holy Spirit transforming us.
January 2018: Pray for pastors and church members in India where followers of militant Hinduism threaten those who practice other religions. MWC has received reports of Mennonite pastors in Telangana who have been physically attacked. Pray that they would continue to boldly proclaim the gospel of peace and love through their ministry. Read more. | |
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