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Mennonite Mission Network @mennomissionnet.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The act of sharing a bowl of ice cream became an example of trust and true hospitality. In a world of individual portions and space, our Korean Anabaptist friends invited their guests into a deeper experience of community — welcoming one another as family. ow.ly/WwwQ50YRhPW

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Anabaptist World @anabaptistworld.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Nearly 300 People from more than a dozen countries carried each other’s burdens figuratively and literally at Mennonite World Conference’s ninth annual Renewal event March 14 in Lumban, Philippines.

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Sharing burdens joyfully | Anabaptist World

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 24/04/2026

February 2026 team photo. At that time MCC Cambodia & Myanmar had 33 team members of 14 nationalities from 4 continents representing 10 Anabaptist national conferences (not counting children).

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Anabaptist World @anabaptistworld.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Thulani Conrad Lewis Moore, 71, a longtime antiracism educator and organizer who played key roles in the Damascus Road and Roots of Justice training programs, died Feb. 17. He lived in Tucker, Ga., with his wife and young daughter.

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Oppression educator pursued justice | Anabaptist World

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 13/04/2026

Dr. SeongHan Kim, Mennonite Central Committee Representative to Northeast Asia, sharing about the history of Christianity in Korea during Asia regional meetings in Jeju.

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 09/04/2026

ល្បែងវាយក្អម (Smash the Pot) at our Khmer New Year celebration. Happy 2570 everyone!

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 05/04/2026

In a country like Myanmar, where Christians are often persecuted, living out one’s faith and engaging in ministry can be extremely dangerous. The risk of imprisonment or even death is real. So why do we Mennonites continue to share a message of nonviolence? canadianmennonite.org/a-letter-fro...

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A Letter from Myanmar – Canadian Mennonite Magazine

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 01/04/2026

My son fanning the fire of a charcoal burner pot while grilling chicken for dinner. Instead of charcoal we were burning coconut waste briquettes - a more environmentally friendly alternative that also burns longer and more steadily.

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Anabaptist World @anabaptistworld.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Mennonite World Conference’s 2028 global assembly will be in Tanzania. The Executive Committee announced March 19 it had accepted an invitation from the member churches of that country.

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MWC assembly shifts to Tanzania | Anabaptist World

Mennonite World Conference’s 2028 global assembly will be in Tanzania. The Executive Committee announced March 19 it had accepted an invitation from the member churches of that country.

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 26/03/2026

My daughter saying hello to the grandmom of one of our YAMEN alumi while at the local market.

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 05/03/2026

Wonderful to see the Mennonite Christian Hospital from Hualien, Taiwan meeting with Pastor Amos Chin from the Mennonite Bible Missionary Church in Myanmar to discuss medical missions and peace work.

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 12/01/2026

During a 1955 lecture noted linguist J.R.R. Tolkien, better known today as the author of Lord of the Rings, claimed that ‘cellar door’ was more beautiful sounding than ‘sky’ or ‘beautiful’. ...but what does that have to do with the Khmer word for morality? www.charlesconklin.com/4cambodia/20...

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Cellar Door and Morality

During a 1955 lecture noted linguist J. R. R. Tolkien, better known today as the author of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, claimed that ‘cellar door’ was more beautiful sounding than …

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 10/12/2025

One of Sony Pray’s cows grazes on a harvested rice field by a rice field that’s recently been fertilized with compost partially made from cow dung. We could call this the real circle of life? But I don’t think Disney will be making a musical about it. www.charlesconklin.com/4cambodia/20...

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Song Pray’s Compost – a messy creative process

Last month we took a team from the Canadian Foodgrains Bank out to visit our Agricultural and Livelihoods project with long term MCC partner Organization To Develop Our Villages. We spent two days …

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 04/10/2025

MCC Cambodia is #recruiting for a Climate Solutions Partner Advisor. This position supports local partners in introducing, strengthening, & expanding climate solutions. mccglobal.my.salesforce-sites.com/recruit/fRec... Please share with anyone in your networks who may be interested/qualified.

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 04/10/2025

In August we hosted an explorative trip from MCC India and MCC Bangladesh to our Peaceful Education program. This learning tour promoted the mutual exchange of knowledge and shared our approach to localizing MCC's Peace Club curriculum to the Asian context. www.charlesconklin.com/4cambodia/20...

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Peace Club Explorative Visit Learning Tour

In August 2025, MCC India and MCC Bangladesh made an explorative visit to MCC Cambodia’s Peaceful Education in Rural Primary Schools program in Prey Veng province. This learning tour was inte…

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 16/09/2025

Oscar Suárez, MCC Cambodia, and Sin Putheary, Cooperation Committee for Cambodia, at Day 2 of #IVCO2025 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. So many great connections and learnings.

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 16/09/2025

ECPAT presenting on the distinction between volunteering and voluntourism at #IVCO2025, outlining the Child Protection and Safeguarding dangers. The session acknowledges that voluntourism isn't going to stop and offers practical guidelines on how voluntourism could be made better through regulation.

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 16/09/2025

So good to hear Sujin Cha from KOICA talk about the structural barriers to international volunteering faced by people with disabilities at #IVCO2025.

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 16/09/2025

The session on "Supporting Volunteers to Access Their Work - Responding to limits on Visas and Work Permits, and other Barriers" is about to begin at #IVCO2025. One of the timely and pressing challenges facing international volunteerism - important to come together to share and collaborate.

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 16/09/2025

Singing "In Jesus Christ We Are One Family" during the 2025-2026 SALT/YAMEN Host Family gathering at Phnom Penh Mennonite Church.

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 16/09/2025

The "Volunteering in challenging environments - Lived experiences from the field" session at #IVCO2025. Fantastic to hear directly from current and recent international volunteers.

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 15/09/2025

MCC Cambodia International Seek Facilitator, Oscar Suarez, shares about MCC's exchange programs as part of a panel discussion on the International Exchange of Volunteers between Civil Society Organisations at #IVCO2025.

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 15/09/2025

Registration yesterday at the 2025 Conference of International Volunteer Cooperation Organisations (#IVCO2025) in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

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Global Volunteering Forum @volunteeringforum.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

#IVCO2025 has officially commenced with Dr Bianca Fadel from @northumbriauni.bsky.social setting the scene - Respect, Kindness, Hope. Welcome to our speakers, delegates & new Bluesky community. #ForumStandards #VolunteeringInDevelopment #Volunteering

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Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary @ambsseminary.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

🌿 Do we claim nonviolence, nonresistance, active resistance or something else? Register by Aug. 20 to save $50. loom.ly/i4m3Ki4 #peace #justice #nonviolence #theology #seminary #shortcourse

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 06/08/2025

Attending the 13th Asian Peace Practitioners Research Conference in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Glad to meet peacebuilders - some familiar, some new - from across the region at this complex moment.

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 26/07/2025

Cluster munitions are deployed in Cambodia again. Lord have mercy. www.thaienquirer.com/55612/thai-a... There's been a generation of work to remove unexploded ordinance in Cambodia. Despite all of the good effort still the stories come every year of farmers & children being killed or crippled.

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Thai Army Admits Use of Cluster Munitions, Citing Military Targets Despite Global Ban - Thai Enquirer Current Affairs

Latest Thailand English Online News Thai Army Admits Use of Cluster Munitions, Citing Military Targets Despite Global Ban Current Affairs - Thai Enquirer %

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Anabaptist World @anabaptistworld.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

The Sermon on the Mount is a collection of Jesus’ teachings that amount to theological comfort food for many Anabaptists. Yet how do the teachings hit differently when, like Jesus, you’re sharing them with the marginalized?

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Five things Friday roundup: The Kingdom, inverted | Anabaptist World

What does it mean to share the gospel of an inverted Kingdom with a captive audience of urban preteens, many of whom have been discarded and further marginalized by the “kingdom” they live in?

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 08/07/2025

Great to see Hello Cambodia 🇰🇭 in the kids section of the sanctuary at North Star Mennonite in Drake, Saskatchewan. Love this outreach from MCC.

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 08/07/2025

Reading The Cat & the Toaster: Living System Ministry in a Technological Age by Douglas A. Hall with Judy Hall & Steve Daman. The call for a holistic approach to ministry brings to mind the full meaning of שׁלום.

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 08/07/2025

I recently read The Upswing by Robert D. Putnam. It’s a fascinating, dense, and data grounded book - there's around a hundred pages of citations. I wrote some about what it has to say about isolation, solidarity, and religious groups. www.charlesconklin.com/4cambodia/20...

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What The Upswing says about Society, Isolation, Solidarity, and the Church

Last year I joined a biweekly book club – organized by MCC alumni Mike Roberts – where each member leads a meeting by sharing on a book that they’ve found interesting or insightfu…

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 08/07/2025

While we were in Hualien last month we visited the Taiwanese Mennonite New Dawn organization's chicken therapy program for adults with intellectual disabilities and autism. It was wonderful - I'll link the website but no English, it's all Traditional Chinese. www.newdawn.org.tw/List.aspx?mi...

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 08/07/2025

Crystal sharing the sermon last Sunday at North Star Mennonite Church in Drake, Saskatchewan. It's good to be here again after three years. I had a good informal discussion with several Canadian Foodgrains Bank supporting farmers this morning.

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 08/07/2025

In June we visited Hualien to thank the Taiwan Mennonite church for supporting MCC's earthquake response in Myanmar, share an update about the response, and learn about their work. Here's a report on the three Mennonite ministries we visited there. www.charlesconklin.com/4cambodia/20...

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Our visit to Mennonite Ministries in Taiwan

In May, we received word that the Fellowship of Mennonite Churches in Taiwan had made a generous donation to MCC’s earthquake response in Myanmar. The church in Taiwan is no stranger to earthquakes…

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Anabaptist World @anabaptistworld.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Mennonite World Conference has convened an inter-Anabaptist task force in response to a humanitarian crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after a major escalation of one of Africa’s longest conflicts.

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MWC, MCC lead response to DR Congo crisis | Anabaptist World

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 07/07/2025

Grace Building, Mercy Building, Peace Building, Faith Building. The wings at the Mennonite Christian Hospital in Hualien, Taiwan - the largest Mennonite Hospital in the world. It originated as a MCC mountain mobile clinic program in 1948 with the hospital opening in 1956.

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 02/07/2025

Crystal presenting a copy of the Anabaptist Community Bible to Dr. Harold Lu at the Meilun Mennonite Church in Hualien, Taiwan. Dr. Lu is a member of the Fellowship of Mennonite Churches in Taiwan steering committee.

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 28/06/2025

Visiting the largest Mennonite Hospital in the world - the Mennonite Christian Hospital in Hualien, Taiwan. Taking a photo by the Mennonite Historical Corridor with the Hospital Chaplain, Grace, who lead a medical mission to Myanmar following the earthquake earlier this year.

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 24/06/2025

Last week I was honored to present Vietnam Mennonite Church President Huynh Dinh Nghia with a copy of the Anabaptist Community Bible. We were meeting to reestablish collaboration between MCC and VMC for the purpose of resuming Vietnamese Mennonite participation in MCC’s exchange programs.

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 02/06/2025

Attending a church service at Phnom Penh Mennonite the Sunday after many Anabaptists gathered in Europe to celebrate the 500th anniversary (I stayed in Cambodia but one of our team, a Mennonite from Colombia, was able to attend).

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 17/03/2025

Leading a session on Mennonite Approaches to Peacebuilding during a recent partner gathering.

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