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Fundraising workers
Laura and Nick with their children, Jesse and Brielle.
Prayer Request
Youth from Portoviejo, Pacoche, Montecristi and Manta, representing Iglesia Evangélica Menonita Ecuadoriana (conference most impacted by the violence), recently participated in a 10-day discipleship workshop at La Paz Mennonite Church in Manta, A day of peacebuilding training was led by four members of the peacebuilding team. Front: Silvia Guaman (middle) and Patricia Abarca (far right), and back: Peter Wigginton (far left) and José Giler (far right). Photo provided.
Pastors and Leaders Conference
Henok Mekonin and Joe Sawatzky frequently work together through a partnership between Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary and Mennonite Mission Network. Photographer: David Fast.
By Catrina Carrigan, Unsplash
Workshop
Wil LaVeist, Mission Network senior executive of advancement, presenting “Afrocentric Anabaptists: Black Experiences in the Mennonite Church” at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary’s conference for Pastors & Leaders 2025 | Anabaptism at 500: Looking Back, Living Forward.
Afrocentric Anabaptists
By Jane Morrow
United States
Urgent humanitarian crisis
A dove
Peacebuilding in Taiwan
Caleb and Stephanie Schrock-Hurst
Obituary
Gladys Graber talks with Mable Bontrager, an AIMM colleague in Zaire (DRC). Courtesy of MC-USA archives
Mission worker lived her faith boldly
By Lynda Hollinger-Janzen
Congo
Conference workshops
Pastors & Leaders 2025 | Anabaptism at 500: Looking Back, Living Forward
Just Peace Pilgrimage
Members of Community Mennonite Church's Just Peace Pilgrimage group stand before the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. From left to right: Art Stoltzfus, Meribeth Kraybill, Betty Shenk, Rene Hostetter, Isaac Witmer, Ruth Zimmerman, Keaton Shenk, and Earl Zimmerman. Photo provided.