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view-display-id-page_3 view-dom-id-d1015975af988d22be8ba3fe98ff5f48"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-featured-image"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/en/stories/investing-young-adults-key"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-medium" src="https://mwc-cmm.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/featured-images/52392734935_cce36cf12d_k.jpg?itok=iv3ZHLu2" width="390" height="290" alt="" /></a></div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><h2><a href="/en/stories/investing-young-adults-key">Investing in young adults is key </a></h2> <p class="post-meta"><strong>Posted:</strong> October 27, 2024 | <strong>Category:</strong> Testimonies </p> <p>“Investing in young adults is a key way to move forward. Mennonite World Conference is the best way I can imagine to do that,” said Doug Klassen, executive minister of Mennonite Church Canada and the North America representative on MWC’s Executive... <a href="/en/stories/investing-young-adults-key" class="more-link"> more/más/suite</a></p></span> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-featured-image"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/en/stories/young-adults-will-be-empowered-love"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-medium" src="https://mwc-cmm.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/featured-images/202207larissaswartz7211cd2e-deb2-40eb-ad15-64c6e3b9413e_0.jpg?itok=sCwcw40z" width="390" height="290" alt="young people face a flashy stage in an open air auditorium" /></a></div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><h2><a href="/en/stories/young-adults-will-be-empowered-love">Young adults will be Empowered by Love</a></h2> <p class="post-meta"><strong>Posted:</strong> June 17, 2024 | <strong>Category:</strong> News </p> <p>Global gathering of young people for quincentenary Global Youth Summit (GYS) : a time for worshipping together, reflecting on faith across cultures, learning about the local culture, and growing understanding through relevant workshops – and love... <a href="/en/stories/young-adults-will-be-empowered-love" class="more-link"> more/más/suite</a></p></span> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-featured-image"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/en/stories/beautiful-mosaic-crafted-gods-hand"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-medium" src="https://mwc-cmm.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/featured-images/202312gborbiteyisaacniitorgborimg-20231223-wa0036.jpg?itok=qbS-82Tw" width="390" height="290" alt="" /></a></div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><h2><a href="/en/stories/beautiful-mosaic-crafted-gods-hand">A beautiful mosaic, crafted by God’s hand </a></h2> <p class="post-meta"><strong>Posted:</strong> June 3, 2024 | <strong>Category:</strong> Testimonies </p> <p>The first story below is from one of our brothers in Argentina. He chose to be anonymous because the story involves sensitive topics. We share this beautiful story because it shows how God put together people with different colours and background,... <a href="/en/stories/beautiful-mosaic-crafted-gods-hand" class="more-link"> more/más/suite</a></p></span> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-featured-image"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/en/stories/yabs-fellowship-week-2024-prayer-requests"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-medium" src="https://mwc-cmm.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/featured-images/202404irmasulistyorinip1090282.jpg?itok=JGcb6iSs" width="390" height="290" alt="" /></a></div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><h2><a href="/en/stories/yabs-fellowship-week-2024-prayer-requests">YABs Fellowship Week 2024 - Prayer requests </a></h2> <p class="post-meta"><strong>Posted:</strong> June 3, 2024 | <strong>Category:</strong> News </p> <p>Latin America Colombia Young people are concerned with mental health and access to work. They face hopelessness regarding the life conditions. Pray for economic resources and opportunities to support and accompany young women to serve in the church... <a href="/en/stories/yabs-fellowship-week-2024-prayer-requests" class="more-link"> more/más/suite</a></p></span> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-5 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-featured-image"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/en/stories/beneath-baobab-journey-unity-laughter-and-inspirations"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-medium" src="https://mwc-cmm.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/featured-images/img-20231223-wa0050.jpg?itok=2KU-rQ19" width="390" height="290" alt="The Tamekwa choir from Tarime Diocese sings and dances on stage at the annual Tanzanian Mennonite yo" /></a></div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><h2><a href="/en/stories/beneath-baobab-journey-unity-laughter-and-inspirations">Beneath the baobab: A journey of unity, laughter and inspirations </a></h2> <p class="post-meta"><strong>Posted:</strong> February 27, 2024 | <strong>Category:</strong> Testimonies </p> <p>Assuming the role of the YABs Representative for Africa is not just a title; it is an immersive experience into a world of diverse perspectives. Collaborating with fellow representatives is a profound learning journey, encompassing cultural... <a href="/en/stories/beneath-baobab-journey-unity-laughter-and-inspirations" class="more-link"> more/más/suite</a></p></span> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-6 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-featured-image"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/en/stories/sweet-fellowship-discord"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-medium" src="https://mwc-cmm.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/featured-images/yabs.jpg?itok=oRMwvjg4" width="390" height="290" alt="online meeeting photo" /></a></div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><h2><a href="/en/stories/sweet-fellowship-discord">Sweet fellowship on Discord</a></h2> <p class="post-meta"><strong>Posted:</strong> July 19, 2023 | <strong>Category:</strong> News </p> <p>Young AnaBaptists build global connection during YABs Fellowship Week Between 18-25 June 2023, young adult groups around the world celebrated the Young AnaBaptist (YABs) Fellowship Week . Themed The family I found in my salvation , young people... <a href="/en/stories/sweet-fellowship-discord" class="more-link"> more/más/suite</a></p></span> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-7 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-featured-image"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/en/stories/prayer-requests-yabs-fellowship-week-2023"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-medium" src="https://mwc-cmm.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/featured-images/202207christenkongimg_9802.jpg?itok=5OXihNy5" width="390" height="290" alt="diversity girls" /></a></div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><h2><a href="/en/stories/prayer-requests-yabs-fellowship-week-2023">Prayer requests YABs Fellowship Week 2023</a></h2> <p class="post-meta"><strong>Posted:</strong> May 25, 2023 | <strong>Category:</strong> News </p> <p>Young Anabaptists from around the world share concerns and joys for communal prayer. Latin America El Salvador That we may give priority and recognize the importance of our relationship with God and the service to others, instead of thinking only of... <a href="/en/stories/prayer-requests-yabs-fellowship-week-2023" class="more-link"> more/más/suite</a></p></span> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-8 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-featured-image"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/en/stories/teach-gospel-and-hold-faith"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-medium" src="https://mwc-cmm.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/51372254326_10b2ef2ae2_k_0.jpg?itok=x35YQaP7" width="390" height="290" alt="" /></a></div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><h2><a href="/en/stories/teach-gospel-and-hold-faith">Teach the gospel and hold the faith </a></h2> <p class="post-meta"><strong>Posted:</strong> May 25, 2023 | <strong>Category:</strong> Testimonies </p> <p>In 21 January 1525, a dozen or so men slowly trudged through the snow. Quietly but resolutely, singly or in pairs, they came by night to the home of Felix Manz, near the Grossmünster, Switzerland. The chill of the winter wind blowing off the lake... <a href="/en/stories/teach-gospel-and-hold-faith" class="more-link"> more/más/suite</a></p></span> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-9 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-featured-image"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/en/stories/refusing-be-victim-and-offender"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-medium" src="https://mwc-cmm.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/featured-images/sangmin_1.jpg?itok=KhvvjEr5" width="390" height="290" alt="" /></a></div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><h2><a href="/en/stories/refusing-be-victim-and-offender">Refusing to be a victim and an offender</a></h2> <p class="post-meta"><strong>Posted:</strong> May 25, 2023 | <strong>Category:</strong> Testimonies </p> <p>It was one of the passages narrating the week of Jesus’ passion that first led SangMin Lee to consider the way of peace. Soon after he became a Christian, Lee was moved by Jesus’ teaching to love our enemies, especially his rebuke to Peter for... <a href="/en/stories/refusing-be-victim-and-offender" class="more-link"> more/más/suite</a></p></span> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-10 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-featured-image"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/en/stories/gospel-light-usa"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-medium" src="https://mwc-cmm.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/featured-images/20220704windhiarsariwndr0899.jpg?itok=7Lgc1viD" width="390" height="290" alt="" /></a></div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><h2><a href="/en/stories/gospel-light-usa">A gospel light in the USA </a></h2> <p class="post-meta"><strong>Posted:</strong> December 22, 2022 | <strong>Category:</strong> Testimonies </p> <p>Christmas around the world Every year on 24 December, my family goes to the Christmas Eve service at Park View Mennonite Church (Harrisonburg, Virginia). It’s a traditional ‘lessons and carols’ service, where we read the Christmas Story from Luke... <a href="/en/stories/gospel-light-usa" class="more-link"> more/más/suite</a></p></span> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-11 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-featured-image"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/en/stories/jesus-brings-us-together-our-differences"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-medium" src="https://mwc-cmm.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/featured-images/nr-christ-seul-reprint-livepainting.jpg?itok=8vgdtGzq" width="390" height="290" alt="colourful painting" /></a></div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><h2><a href="/en/stories/jesus-brings-us-together-our-differences">Jesus brings us together in our differences </a></h2> <p class="post-meta"><strong>Posted:</strong> December 21, 2022 | <strong>Category:</strong> Testimonies </p> <p>How to represent Jesus in a live painting? White with a beard as he is often represented in churches? Not really! We had it in our hearts to paint a colorful Jesus, a Jesus in green, yellow, blue, white, red and orange. We are the camp “ Juntos in... <a href="/en/stories/jesus-brings-us-together-our-differences" class="more-link"> more/más/suite</a></p></span> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-12 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-featured-image"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/en/stories/all-voices-praising-jesus-together-uruguay"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-medium" src="https://mwc-cmm.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/featured-images/img_0793.jpg?itok=KFeFIz6t" width="390" height="290" alt="" /></a></div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><h2><a href="/en/stories/all-voices-praising-jesus-together-uruguay">All voices praising Jesus together in Uruguay </a></h2> <p class="post-meta"><strong>Posted:</strong> December 16, 2022 | <strong>Category:</strong> News </p> <p>I really love the simplicity of our Christmas parties where we meet to enjoy each other’s company and remember the one that keeps us united.<a href="/en/stories/all-voices-praising-jesus-together-uruguay" class="more-link"> more/más/suite</a></p></span> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-13 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-featured-image"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/en/stories/month-celebrating-charni-daan"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-medium" src="https://mwc-cmm.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/featured-images/img-20191218-wa0058.jpg?itok=Vn-1kaTF" width="390" height="290" alt="" /></a></div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><h2><a href="/en/stories/month-celebrating-charni-daan">A month of celebrating Charni Daan </a></h2> <p class="post-meta"><strong>Posted:</strong> December 14, 2022 | <strong>Category:</strong> News </p> <p>In India, Christmas is celebrated with great enthusiasm from mid November to New Year. 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Getting together to share meals and storytelling is usually the best part, but the most amazing and wonderful time is during the night vigil when one... <a href="/en/stories/joy-and-love-night-vigil-kenya" class="more-link"> more/más/suite</a></p></span> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-16 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-featured-image"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/en/stories/youth-voices-need-be-heard"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-medium" src="https://mwc-cmm.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/featured-images/20150722_jonathoncharles_1215.jpg?itok=8--KHQBx" width="390" height="290" alt="" /></a></div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><h2><a href="/en/stories/youth-voices-need-be-heard">Youth voices need to be heard </a></h2> <p class="post-meta"><strong>Posted:</strong> June 22, 2022 | <strong>Category:</strong> News </p> <p>GYS: Life in the Spirit: Learn, Serve, Worship “What a unique opportunity to ask, observe and listen more than we speak,” says Christen Kong, Mennonite Church Canada delegate for the Global Youth Summit (GYS), 1-4 July 2022 in Salatiga, Indonesia. “... <a href="/en/stories/youth-voices-need-be-heard" class="more-link"> more/más/suite</a></p></span> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-17 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-featured-image"> <div class="field-content"><a href="/en/stories/5-lessons-pandemic"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-medium" src="https://mwc-cmm.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/featured-images/2021-maka-yabsfw-img_4771_0.jpeg?itok=q4TEB02P" width="390" height="290" alt="" /></a></div> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-nothing"> <span class="field-content"><h2><a href="/en/stories/5-lessons-pandemic">5 lessons from the pandemic</a></h2> <p class="post-meta"><strong>Posted:</strong> May 17, 2021 | <strong>Category:</strong> Testimonies </p> <p>During times of uncertainty, it is normal to be filled with doubt, fear and panic. 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