Allies
Other Parts of our Family of Churches:
The Official Brethren in Christ Homepage This is our “denomination”.
The Atlantic Conference of the Bretheren in Christ Our BIC conference.
Brethren in Christ World Missions We are a part of a world-wide church plant effort.
Mennonite Central Committee We are a part of a world-wide relief, development and advocacy effort.
Mennonite Mutual Aid MMA is a church-affiliated organization that nurtures the practice of holistic, biblical stewardship. They help individuals and groups act on their faith values in everyday decisions about resources.
Affiliated and Sister congregations
Circulo de Esperanza in Madrid email: bruce@anabautistas.org phone: +34-91-526-2471
Jesus Followers Who Organize in Cells
Touch USA Network of Cell Churches in the US, links to world-wide movement. Small Groups Network How to lead a small group.
Allies in Ministry
Members of our congregations are connected to these organizations.
Brotherly Love Urban Youth Services Bryan and Brenda Robinson lead this mission impacting the lives of inner-city youth.
Christian Community Development Association Online The mission of CCDA is to inspire and train Christians who seek to bear witness to the kingdom of God by reclaiming and restoring under-resourced communities.
Covenant House Helping teens in need.
Germantown Mennonite Historic Trust Randy Nyce is director for this “homeplace” of Anabaptists in the U.S.
Habitat for Humanity Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia builds and rehabilitates houses and neighborhoods by providing simple, decent, affordable homes in partnership with families in need.
Mission Year Mission Year is a year long program where Christian young people live in an urban neighborhood volunteering, worshiping with, and loving their neighbors.
Mustard Seed Associates Provides resources and a network for other committed Christians to anticipate the future, decode the culture, convey the Kingdom of God, and create new ways to be a difference and make a difference.
New Jerusalem Now The mission of New Jerusalem is to facilitate transformation in recovery from drug and alcohol addictions for marginalized populations by providing an affordable, spiritual and holistic approach to enhance the quality of life.
Philabundance The Philadelphia region’s food-rescue organization.
Project Home Philadelphia’s leading homeless mission.
The Simple Way A community trying of subversive friends serving as a catalyst to spread the vision of loving God, loving people and following Jesus in our neighborhoods and in our world.
World Evangelical Fellowship Challenges the western Church to speak out against the persecution of Christians.
Anti-racism and Reconciliation
Damascus Road The MCC Anti-Racism Program provides anti-racism educating and resources from an Anabaptist perspective.
Resources for Multicultural Ministry Offering stories, resources and pratical ideas for forming cross-cultural friendships and living your faith more effectively.
No Partiality This site is a study guide for the book, No Partiality: The Idolatry of Race and the New Humanity.
The King Center The King center is the living memorial and institutional guardian of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy.
Peacemaking
MCC Peace Office Newsletter Resource for the world-wide peacemaking efforts of our relief, development and advocacy arm: the Mennonite Central Committee
Christian Peacemaker Teams A group designed to “get in the way” of conflicting sides and cause peace.
Peace & Justice Network From our Mennonite friends: a helpful collection of various ways to learn about how to make peace.
School of the Americas Watch Dedicated to closing the School of the Americas (and related institutions) that are notorious for producing human-rights violators in the Latin American militaries.
Witness for Peace Working for peace, human rights, justice and sustainable economies in Latin America and the Caribbean through socially responsible travel, personal experience, popular education and grassroots activism.
Plowshares Institute Our pastor is part of the Philadelphia Community Conflict Transformation training and action (ECRJ) birthed by the efforts of Plowshares to promulgate a method mastered in South Africa for meeting conflict with love and understanding.
National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund Advocates for U.S. federal legislation that would enable conscientious objectors to war to have their federal income taxes directed to a special fund which would be used for peaceful (non-military) purposes.
Social and Environmental Justice
Carbon Neutral Digest Discusses all things relating to carbon offsetting. Includes detailed descriptions of offset projects, offset provider ratings and interviews with industry leaders.
Conscientious Objection
MCC Peace Office Information and resources on the peace position from our relief, development and advocacy arm: the Mennonite Central Committee.
Center on Conscience & War CCW works to defend and extend the rights of conscientious objectors.
Making a Deeper Relationship With God
The Kairos School of Spiritual Formation Lancaster/Wernersville, PA
Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation Washington, DC
Kindred Spirits
“The Ooze” Spencer Burke’s site is one of the more well-done and thorough-going ones around for those interested in the “emerging church.”
“Relevant” Magazine can be found at www.relevantmagazine.com- tagged as “God.Life.Progressive Culture,” Relevant seeks to find connections between the emerging generation and what God is “up to” in the world.
”Emergent” is an “emerging” group (the next generation, or those struggling to minister to them, apparently like this word) that is looking for new ways to build community and “be the Church,” for the next generation, including perhaps starting an “alternative seminary” and other ventures. Check them out at www.emergentvillage.org.
The Northumbria Community describes a network of hugely diverse people, from different backgrounds, streams, and edges of the Christian faith. We are united in our desire to embrace and express an ongoing exploration into a new way for living Christianly – a way that offers hope in the changed and changing culture of today’s world.
The Iona Community is a dispersed Christian ecumenical community working for peace and social justice, rebuilding of community and the renewal of worship.
The Prayer Foundation is comprised of lay Christians who have a desire to grow in prayer and to follow Christ in a deeper way.