Together we love and serve one another

International guests at the Global Mission Dinner, with Sharon Brugger Norton, executive director of Global Mission at the lectern. Speaking in the microphone is Daniel Mbaya, president of Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria.
Photo by Donna Parcell.

Together we love and serve one another:

Remarks recorded by Frank Ramirez at the Global Mission dinner at Annual Conference 2025, originally published in Newsline.

Sharon Brugger Norton, executive director of Global Mission:
“God has always chosen to partner with us. God does not choose to work alone. We need each other. We need our global Brethren as well.”

Daniel Mbaya, president of Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria):
“Without God, the EYN would not be here today. . . . Your prayers and support have helped the church to grow in the midst of persecution.”

Etienne Nsanzimana, founding pastor and current president of the Rwanda Church of the Brethren
“I love the Brethren church because of two things. What do you say? 
Love and peace. Peace and love is what I try to do in our Rwandan churches, and I have taught it to the people. Really, we can [teach] the world.”

Learn more about the Global Mission of the Church of the Brethren at www.brethren.org/global or support its work today at www.brethren.org/givegm.

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