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Convención de las Iglesias Evangélicas Menonitas de Puerto Rico, Inc.
...f the Puerto Rican Mennonite Church Convention, which is now made up of 11 congregations with 394 members. ...ve challenge is the lack of inspiring Mennonite leadership in Puerto Rican congregations, mostly due to a lack of educated pastors and leaders. Though there is the

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Statement on Abortion (Mennonite Church USA, 2003)
We urge pastors and congregations to foster a climate of openness so that these decisions can be worked out p ...expected and unwanted pregnancies. If we want to create safe places in our congregations where people can talk about their problems, we must learn to listen in a no

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Position of the Mennonite Church on Carnal Warfare (Mennonite Church, 1915)
Therefore, we the Mennonite General Conference, representing congregations in United States, Canada, and India, assembled at Archbold, Ohio, August 18

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A Commitment to Christ's Way of Peace (Mennonite Central Committee, 1993)
As our congregations have reached out to become more diverse, we have grown in our awareness of ...mmitment to Christ's Way of Peace," and commends it to our conferences and congregations for teaching, study and the strengthening of peace convictions.

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Recommendation on Exploring MC/GC Integration (General Conference Mennonite Church, Mennonite Church, 1989)
...the development of common vision. </li><li type="a">The undertaking in our congregations of a study of Christian unity. </li><li type="a">The writing of a conjoint

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Philadelphia Praise Center
|Row 6 title = Number of Congregations ...ult of these shared beliefs, as well as relationships built with Mennonite congregations, Philadelphia Praise Center officially joined Franconia Mennonite Conferenc

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Mennonitische Freikirche Österreich
|Row 6 title = Number of Congregations ...en Missionaries followed up on MCC relief work by helping to establish new congregations of believers, many of whom were refugees. [2]

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Caribbean, Central and South America/es
...ts a news bulletin online. Also included on the site are links to various congregations and conferences in Latin America as well as to Anabaptist seminaries in Lat

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Old Order Mennonite Church in Ontario
As of 2021, the church included over 1900 families in 53 congregations.

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Mennonite Brethren Church Confession of Faith (1975)
...d and are members of this body, whose head is Christ. Despite diversity in congregations and denominations, the Spirit works a basic unity which results in cooperat ...nurture, service and witness. Each congregation regulates its own affairs. Congregations, committed to the Word of God and to this confession, affiliate as a denomi

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Vieques Resolution (Mennonite Church USA, 2001)
...le. On May 11, 2001 they asked Mennonite Central Committee to request that congregations write their government representatives asking for a cessation of military e

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Convención Evangélica Menonita Paraguaya
|Row 1 title = Congregations ...etwork, 2014. Web. 01 Nov. 2014.</ref> In 2012, the conference included 47 congregations and 2182 members.<ref>"Membership." Mennonite World Conference. Mennonite W

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Colombian Mennonites share bread of life
...es of each congregation that was awarded part of the grant and several new congregations have grown out of these ministries. Each location has adapted its programs

6 KB (852 words) - 14:39, 1 April 2015
Anabaptist Association of Australia and New Zealand
|Row 1 title = Congregations ...ition were diverse. Some of the participants fellowshipped with Anabaptist congregations, others experienced meaningful dialogue with Anabaptist missioners, yet oth

18 KB (2,625 words) - 18:10, 5 October 2016
Mennonite Church USA Archives
*Mennonite congregations

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A Resolution on Faithful Action Toward Tax Withholding (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1983)
...sponsorship of MCC Canada Peace and Social Concerns. We encourage Canadian congregations to continue study of materials made available on the issue of military [[Ta

7 KB (1,032 words) - 18:32, 6 April 2015
Preface
...ulation and testing, both in the circles of this book's readers and by the congregations they serve.

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Brethren in Christ Church Orissa, Inida
...ributed to a community peace building initiative. As of 2013, they had 155 congregations with 5,830 members. In 2013, the church finished construction on a church

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Teaching the Bible in the Congregation, by Ross T. Bender
...text and the mindset in which biblical interpretation is going on in these congregations. ...em to represent the current Mennonite teaching canon, at least in these 34 congregations. Additional texts included Mark 10:1-12, Acts 15, Ephesians 5:21-31; Hebrew

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Suffering and God's Judgment (in 1 & 2 Thessalonians)
...Thessalonians 1:3-12. Suffering is not a favorite theme in North American congregations, where most members live quite comfortably. Texts which emphasize God's jud

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