Twenty-five years ago, a group of Anabaptist mission thinkers, administrators, and practitioners gathered at Techny Towers, north of Chicago, to reflect on issues related to the field of Anabaptist missiology. This issue revisits that discussion. In the opening essay, the Association of Anabaptist Missiologists story will be told from its origins, through its nineteen in-person gatherings, and on to its principal publications and other activities. In a second block of essays, the four papers presented at the initial AAM gathering in 2000 are brought together for the first time in a single published collection. Following each essay, contemporary Anabaptist voices from the global faith family will offer responses.
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 […]
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] […]
The gloomy year 2024 is coming to an end Hand on heartâwe 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 […]
This blog post responds to John Kampenâs 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 […]
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 Godâs […]