In the Name of Christ: Fall 2020

En el Nombre de Cristo: Otoño 2020 (Spanish version available)

This issue of Intersections focuses on our work “In the Name of Christ,” and completes the four centennial issues that have examined MCC’s century of working at relief, development and peace in Christ’s name. César García, president of Mennonite World Conference (MWC), reflects on the past, present and future of the partnership between MWC and MCC. Church leaders from the United States, Canada and churches around the world reflect on what service in the name of Christ looks like in their contexts and on their hopes for MCC’s partnership with the church as MCC enters its second century.

• Defining identities: MCC and Mennonite World Conference by César García
• In the name of Christ: keywords and excerpts from MCC’s missiology across the decades compiled by Alain Epp Weaver, Frank Peachey and Lori Wise
• Serving in the name of Christ today: challenges and opportunities facing the church by Premanand Bagh, Robyn Serez, Lukas Amstutz, Barbara Nkala and Boutros Melki
• Serving in the name of Christ in a time of COVID-19 by Desalegn Abebe Ejo, Elena Bercían Ramirez, Antoine Kimbila Musumbungu, Susanne Guenther Loewen, SeongHan Kim, Janna Hunter- Bowman and Moses Thliza
• Connecting people: MCC, exchange and the possibility of transformation by Elaine Zook Barge
• MCC’s young adult programs and the church’s witness by Saulo Padilla, Carl Heppner, Geovani Serrano, Eunhee Jang, Osée Tshiwapa, Edith Rodriguez, Helena Sanbam and Vikal Pravin Rao
• Broadened horizons: the gift of IVEP to the church in the United States and Canada by Julie Weatherford
• Sharing gifts within the global church: the Young Anabaptist Mennonite Exchange Network by Liesa Unger
• Responsibility “both to those within and those without”: MCC, humanitarianism and the church by Alain Epp Weaver
• Advocating for justice in the name of Christ by Rachelle Lyndaker Schlabach and Anna Vogt
• A theory of change for MCC’s work developed by MCC’s international program directors
• Visions for MCC’s second century of service in the name of Christ by Cynthia Peacock, Tim Miller, Ingrid Reichard, Alix Lozano, Steve Heinrichs, Sarah Nahar and Alan Robinson