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Missional church

I don’t want a cut-flower church

Polls and surveys note the largest trend in American Christianity today is the rise of nondenominational churches. Why? And why now?

Jewel Showalter

October 6, 2025

‘Mr. Missions’ showed the way

Rejecting racism and colonialism, J.D. Graber sowed seeds of better relationships

Lynda Hollinger-Janzen

October 2, 2025

A success story of a church ‘seeking the welfare of the city’

Many churches seek to follow Jesus’ instructions to serve their neighbors, help the poor and live in unity with others, but few are successful. The Church by the Playground: The Story of the Sharing Community in Rosedale by Dorothy Nickel Friesen provides an example of success.

Gordon Houser | For Anabaptist World

October 3, 2024

When the vision is of God: The gospel without walls

Colombian couple creates a church park

Eduardo and Lucy Bautista | For Mennonite World Conference

October 1, 2024

Thoughts on staying together

At the end of the Virginia Mennonite Conference annual assembly, July 21, assistant moderator Kevin Gasser encouraged us to stay together. Spoken from his heart,

Elwood Yoder

September 4, 2018

How are we experiencing church growth?

There are all kinds of expectations and assumptions for how ministry should be observed in an established congregation. Church-plant initiatives are not immune to those

AW Staff

July 20, 2018

Training tomorrow’s Mandelas and Tutus

​Before founding SADRA in 2013, Oscar Siwali worked at the Quaker Peace Centre in Cape Town and for the Centre for Conflict Resolution, conducting workshops

The Mennonite

January 21, 2018

An interview with Alisha and Joshua Garber, mission workers in Spain, and Pastor David Becerra

Photo: Left: Members of Comunidad Evangélica Menonita in Barcelona have embraced Alisha and Joshua Garber, new mission workers in Spain. Photo by Joshua Garber. An interview with

The Mennonite

January 21, 2018

21st Century Discipleship and the Parable of the Sower: A Contemporary Rendition

Jessica Schrock-Ringenberg pastors at Zion Mennonite Church in Archbold, Ohio.  A farmer knew that he was supposed to go out and sow some seeds. The

Jessica Schrock-Ringenberg

December 12, 2017

Our missional story: Early Church

Kenneth Wettig is Pastor of Early Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia.  Live the Sign: Radical hospitality amidst an Inhospitable culture as the local mission of the church

The Mennonite

November 20, 2017

Responding to the Spirit

Francisco Machado Levia and his spouse, Juanita, have been invited to serve as church planters in Spain alongside Anabautistas, Menonitas y Hermanos en Cristo—España (Anabaptists, Mennonites, and

The Mennonite

November 2, 2017

Home is where I feel fulfilled

Lauren Francisco is a member of Calvary Community Church in Hampton, Virginia. She served for a year with Mennonite Mission Network in South Africa and

The Mennonite

September 25, 2017
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