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- This year, the world celebrates 500 years of the Anabaptist movement. There are websites, European tours planned and Anabaptist-themed study Bibles on the way. Anabaptism itself is a kaleidoscopic movement—the Radical Reformation it spawned included reformers from the violent apocalypticism of Thomas Müntzer to the peaceful separatism of Menno Simons. Today, its descendants include traditions as variant as the Amish and, well, the Mennonite Brethren. It is a movement that spans the globe, with the majority of those baptized into Anabaptist-rooted churches coming from Africa, Asia and Latin America. And it all started with a baptism. “Fear came over them…” […]
- “Why was baptism such a big deal?” Whenever I talk with new learners about the evangelical Anabaptists of the Reformation period, I know this will be a question that comes up. One the one hand, the very idea that someone could be hunted and killed over what seemed like a squabble over baptismal practice appears extreme to many today. On the other hand, that these early radicals were willing to let themselves be drowned, hanged or even burned over their baptismal convictions seems at first glance to be perhaps wasteful. (By one estimate, 4,000 Anabaptists were martyred during the early […]
- “You belong to the accursed Anabaptists, who originate strange sects, opinions, errors and contention among the people!” It was 1544 and John Claesz and Lucas Lambertsz van Beveren stood before four judges in Amsterdam, listening to the charges against them. Although everyone in Christendom was baptized as infants, these two men renounced that event and repeated the ritual as adults. As a result, they found themselves arraigned on charges of being Anabaptist. What does it mean to be Anabaptist? Looking at heroes like Claesz and Lambertsz from five centuries ago, we might be tempted to think the spirit of Ana-baptism […]
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Church Planting and Church Planters
Eleven years ago, Jason and Nicole Quiring moved to Saratoga Springs, Utah, to plant a church in an area where only 1 percent are evangelical Christians.
Today, Greenhouse Community Church has vibrant children’s and youth ministries, welcomes pastors and leaders on Vision Trips and hosts internships and mission teams to partner together in the work.
Greenhouse is in the middle of a campaign to construct its own multi-use building for worship and outreach, including its annual sports ministry.
“We are so excited about what God is doing here in Utah,” Jason says. “The Greenhouse is thriving. People are coming to Jesus, and those who already know him are growing deeper. People are worshiping, learning, connecting, serving and living out the Gospel.”
When you give to USMB, you are helping fund church plants like Greenhouse.
Leadership Pipeline
New leaders are being trained through USMB NextGen’s Leadership Pipeline, which saw a 350 percent increase in participation in 2024 with a record 27 candidates!
The Pipeline identifies and invests in emerging leaders and comes alongside churches by providing internship resources focusing on knowing (calling), doing (competence) and being (character). The Pipeline offers free training videos and curriculum for local church leaders to use as they mentor interns.
Your gift to USMB leadership development will ensure churches and interns have access to these free training resources and help make a new nine-month residency option available starting in Fall 2025.
CORD
Better together. This is the aim of USMB’s partnership with immigrant churches through CORD.
The CORD acronym describes this partnership:
- Connecting immigrant churches to resources and other congregations within our MB family.
- Organizing and assisting with establishing a stable place of worship.
- Retooling through biblical training and educational resources centered around our USMB Confession of Faith.
- Developing pastors and key leaders capable of shepherding a healthy church.
At a cost of $55,500 per church over three years, this initiative is funded primarily by congregations and individual partners.
Thanks to support from generous donors, the first congregation to receive CORD funding, Christian Center the Hand of God in Hamilton, Ohio, is fully funded.
The second CORD recipient is Restoration Church in West Chester, Ohio. Watch the video to learn more about Pastor Jules Mukaba and the ongoing ministry at Restoration Church.
Thanks to a gift of $55,500 from MB Foundation, Restoration Church is also fully funded. This means CORD fundraising efforts are focused on the third church, which is yet to be named.
More than 10 immigrant churches have requested assistance, and we cannot commit to helping a third church without funds.
Would you give to support immigrant congregations like Restoration Church through CORD?
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