Partners in Mission

Partners in Mission represents a broad category of partnering based around shared goals, vision and action.  Both local and global in nature, partnership in mission represent relationships of trust and movement, a tethering together for a time and for particular action.  They represent mutual conversation and appreciation without membership attachments that are designed to incarnate and extend the reign of God through missional, intercultural and formational activity.  These partners are intended to broaden Franconia Conferece’s world view by extending friendship and shalom with persons who bring fresh perspectives and possibilities to our ongoing ministry, witness and fellowship while offering support, encouragement and rootedness to a variety of expression of Christian worship and discipleship.

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New book discusses the ‘bare essentials’ of a radical faith

by John Longhurst What does a naked Anabaptist look like? That’s what Stuart Murray wanted to know. “Anabaptism has been around for almost 500 years, and for much of that time it has been clothed in Mennonite, Hutterite and Amish traditions and culture,” says Murray, who helps direct the Anabaptist Network in Great Britain and Ireland. “But what [...]

Posted on 19 April 2010 | 12:38 pm

Reflections from Mexico City: CIEAMM celebrates fifty years

J. Mark and Emma Frederick From Emma . . .On a November Sunday morning, J. Mark and I sat in an auditorium in the center of Mexico City surrounded by brothers and sisters, many of whom we hadn’t seen for a long time. It is seven years since we left Mexico. We’ve been back a few [...]

Posted on 17 March 2010 | 10:09 am

Eastern Mennonite Seminary offers cross-cultural seminar in United Kingdom

Eastern Mennonite Seminary at Lancaster (PA) is offering its first ever cross-cultural experience to the United Kingdom. “Struggle and Hope in Post-Christendom,” led by Stephen Kriss and Stuart Murray Williams, will explore Christian presence and witness in Bristol and London, England. Kriss is director of communication and leadership cultivation with Franconia Mennonite Conference in eastern Pennsylvania and [...]

Posted on 12 February 2010 | 8:54 am

Opening communication with Haitian partners, fund established for relief and restoration

Steve Kriss, skriss@franconiaconference.org Franconia Conference has established a fund to assist the Grace Assembly Network congregations in the rebuilding and reconstruction sure to follow the Haiti earthquake. While communication with key Grace Assembly Network leader, Pastor Lesly Bertrand, has been limited, phone calls and a visit form Mennonite Central Committee staff assure us of his [...]

Posted on 21 January 2010 | 2:05 pm

Conference gathers for holy extravaganza

Franconia Conference Moderator Blaine Detwiler of Susquehanna, Pa, suggested that the annual Conference Assembly might be a “holy extravaganza.” And indeed it was, held at Souderton (Pa) Mennonite Church on November 13 and 14 around the theme of “Cultivating Healthy and Growing Leaders.” The extravaganza kicked off with a multiethnic worship team from [...]

Posted on 3 December 2009 | 9:40 am

Franconia Conference Summer 2009 Class of Interns

Blooming Glen • Benjamin Bergey (Blooming Glen) spent his summer with his home congregation as part of his studies at Eastern Mennonite University. Bergey will enter his junior year at EMU as a double major in church music and vocal performance. Church of the Overcomer • Julianne McDonald (Church of the Overcomer) interned with the Church of [...]

Posted on 3 November 2009 | 11:10 pm

UK partnerships continue to build: Offering help and building faith together

Lora Steiner Goshen College professor John Roth tells the story of early Anabaptists in Europe, who were pushed to the margins of society and geography because they refused to conform to the state church, yet still managed to draw people to their fold. When the new converts were asked why they had joined the Anabaptists – [...]

Posted on 1 September 2009 | 4:03 pm

Exchanging a free meal for a listening ear: Worm Project shares stories and inspires action

Jessica Walter, Communication and Leadership Resources ManagerOver a meal of well seasoned red beans and rice in a packed banquet hall more than 200 people sat down to hear about the work Claude Good and the Worm Warriors are doing to fight the infestation of intestinal worms that plague whole populations of children and adults [...]

Posted on 13 July 2009 | 3:14 pm

Kingdom Builders and MCC partner to meet building needs

Jessica WalterKingdom Builders Anabaptist Network of Greater Philadelphia, in partnership with Mennonite Central Committee’s (MCC) Philadelphia office, has launched Kingdom Builders Construction a new renovation and construction project for the various Anabaptist churches and ministries in Philadelphia.Dan Umstead, a Spring City, Pa., resident and recent Eastern University graduate, will serve the Kingdom Builders and MCC [...]

Posted on 12 May 2009 | 11:29 am

Lancaster Conference ordains bishop team for the Philadelphia area

by Jewel Showalter, Lancaster Mennonite Conference The stately old former-Presbyterian sanctuary on the corner of Edgmont and 23rd Street – now home to Way Thru Christ Community Fellowship – overflowed with more than 500 Mennonites on the evening of April 26. They’d come from the 14 churches of the Philadelphia District of Lancaster Mennonite Conference (LMC), to [...]

Posted on 6 May 2009 | 2:58 pm

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