Anabaptist Witness

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Latino Anabaptism and Global Mission

This issue depicts the new reality of Latin American Anabaptism, in which “mission and migration” are practiced not only by northern Anabaptists but also by Latino/a Anabaptists, in collaboration with one another and with other global partners. Latino/a Anabaptists are creating the future of Anabaptism in the Americas and beyond. Topics include multidirectional mission, MCC's Semilla program in Colombia, peacebuilding in Central America, Samuel Escobar, violence in Ecuador, migrant support, and a Colombian Mennonite ministry in the Netherlands.

August 2025

Academic article by Luis Tapia Rubio

Eradicating Neocolonialism in Anabaptist Mission

Academic article by Jonathan Minchala Flores, Francisca Pacheco Alvarado

Misión, trabajo y carisma en CCM Semilla Colombia

Academic article by Robert Brenneman

The New Peacebuilders

Academic article by Carlos Martínez García

Samuel Escobar

Reflection piece by Francisco Mosquera Angulo

Integrantes de la Iglesia Hermanos Menonitas de Colombia acompañan a migrantes en el «Tapón del Darién»

From the blog

By Desalegn Abebe Ejo Posted on March 4, 2025

Innovation and Transformation in the Meserete Kristos Church Relief and Development Association

The Meserete Kristos Church has existed as a Church since 1951, continuing as an underground ministry under the socialist regime. Besides its spiritual activities, the Church began relief and development work during the underground period.  Following the fall of the communist government, the organization was registered as the Meserete Kristos Church Relief and Development Association […]

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By Johannes Reimer Posted on January 23, 2025

Systematically Building the Community of Faith

500 years and Now What? Time and again, I hear Mennonite pastors in Christian congregations complaining about the entrenched structures, inflexibility, and traditional ineffectiveness of their congregations. “If only I could start all over again,” I soon hear the quiet sigh. “That’s done all the time these days,” I reply, “it’s called re-planting or re-founding.”[1] […]

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By Johannes Reimer Posted on December 31, 2024

Wonderfully Protected by Good Powers

The gloomy year 2024 is coming to an end Hand on heart—we haven’t experienced a year as dark as 2024 in the Western world for a long time. What on earth was going on? The forces of nature kept people on tenterhooks: hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and, unfortunately, wars and cries of pain. Millions of people […]

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By André Gingerich Stoner Posted on December 4, 2024

Response to Kampen

This blog post responds to John Kampen’s article An Earnest Effort Falls Short from Anabaptist Witness 11.2. The author also has a piece in the same issue detailing his own perspective on the 2017 resolution discussed by Kampen. Note that Kampen comments on this response below. I want to respond to key matters John Kampen addresses in […]

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By Kebede Bekere, Desalegn Abebe Ejo Posted on November 21, 2024

God’s Reconciling Work in Development: The Development Theology and Practice of Meserete Kristos Church (MKC) in Ethiopia

Introduction The Meserete Kristos Church (MKC) is one of the Christian evangelical denominations in Ethiopia established by the North American Mennonite missionaries in 1951. The Mennonite missionaries entered Ethiopia to assist Ethiopia in the 1940s in reconstruction after the five-year occupation of the Italians. One of the strategies the missionaries used to engage in God’s […]

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