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
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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
- 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.
- Consultation takes place on next phase of Church of the Brethren’s South Sudan ministry
A consultation on the future of the Church of the Brethren’s mission priority in South Sudan was held recently in Nappanee, Ind., hosted at Union Center Church of the Brethren.
- Intercessory prayer and action needed as TPS is ended for Haitians living in the US
Members of the Church of the Brethren Deportation Defense Response Team were in Miami, Fla., this past weekend, meeting with Church of the Brethren denominational and district leadership. We worshiped with Haitian sisters and brothers in Church of the Brethren congregations in southern Florida, and were part of fervent prayers for God's intervention and protection as the federal government moves to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians living in the US, as of 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 3.
- Global Food Initiative closes out 2025 with last set of grants for the year
The last set of grants for 2025 from the Church of the Brethren’s Global Food Initiative (GFI) rounded out the year by supporting needs around the world, from Honduras to Rwanda, Nigeria to Ecuador, as well as local projects in Pennsylvania.
- Newsline Special: A pastoral response to the removal of Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro and US military strikes
Many of us woke up Saturday morning with news of the U.S. military strike on Venezuela that led to the capture of Venezuela President Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. We have received an official statement from the president’s office of the Church of the Brethren in Venezuela (ASIGLEH) calling for calm, prudence and peace