Engage: Global Mission Gathering
Sunday, September 20, 2026, 7-9 p.m. at Lancaster Church of the Brethren
Guest speakers: Joel Peña, Eric Ramirez, Rebecca Dali
Free and open to all!
The Global Mission office primarily works with autonomous Brethren bodies in various countries around the world through mutual encouragement, sharing resources, and supporting each other’s efforts.
Global Mission ministries include:
- Global Food Initiative
- Global Church of the Brethren Communion
- South Sudan: This mission project sponsored by the Mission and Ministry Board has one full-time Global Mission staff person and several local staff working in the areas of agriculture, reconciliation, trauma healing, prison ministry, and evangelism. Five churches have been planted.
Global Mission partners with existing partners and emerging churches and projects in seven broad areas:
- community development
- agricultural development (through Global Food Initiative)
- women and children’s empowerment
- theological education & leadership development
- peacebuilding
- strategic economic empowerment
- church planting and development
Stay connected
Global mission prayer updates primarily share prayer requests received from the global Church of the Brethren and our partners around the world. See the most recent prayer update here.
Global Mission News
- Global Church of the Brethren Communion meets in Spain
Attending the Global Church of the Brethren Communion gathering on Spain’s northern coast in April was one of the greatest joys thus far in my role as executive director of Global Mission for the Church of the Brethren. After many meetings on Zoom with the delegates and alternates, it was a joyous occasion to see all of our plans coming together—and for some of us, to meet in person for the first time.
- Discovering joys, challenges, and God at work with the churches in the Dominican Republic
A powerful and eye-opening trip to the Dominican Republic in February and March inspired me to share both the joys and challenges we encountered there, along with glimpses of how God is at work through his people.
- Global Mission executive visits Church of the Brethren in Burundi, meets with church leaders from Democratic Republic of Congo
Church of the Brethren Global Mission executive Sharon Brugger Norton visited the Church of the Brethren in Burundi in late March and early April. The Church of the Brethren in Burundi is the newest member of the Global Church of the Brethren Communion.
- Global Food Initiative grants support church-based ministries in Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda
The latest set of grants from the Church of the Brethren’s Global Food Initiative (GFI) have been announced. They support ministries in Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda that are connected with Church of the Brethren denomination in each country including the Great Lakes Bible School, Farming God's Way training, and a goat and chicken farming livelihood project.
- Emergency Disaster Fund gives large grants for Church of the Brethren mission in South Sudan, relief for Congolese refugees
Brethren Disaster Ministries staff have directed large grants from the Church of the Brethren’s Emergency Disaster Fund (EDF) to the church’s mission in South Sudan and to provide relief for Congolese refugees in Burundi and families continuing to be affected by violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
- EYN disaster relief staff, EYN Media share news of violence affecting the church in Nigeria
Two departments of Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) have shared information about recent violence affecting members and congregations of EYN in northeast Nigeria.