Welcome to the
Western District Conference web site 

The Western District Conference is a regional conference of the Mennonite Church USA. WDC has 64 member congregations, three associate member congregations, and five church plants. Member congregations are located in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Nebraska.

Western District Conference empowers its Anabaptist/Mennonite congregations to:

  Witness and invite others to faith in Jesus Christ,
  Dwell in just and loving relationships,
  Connect to God's mission in the world.
 
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Click on links below to view 2 short videos featuring testimonies from WDC/SCC congregations and leaders about how God is calling our congregations to ministry and how we are answering. To download the videos to your computer, right click the titles and choose Save Link As.     
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News from WDC

8 leaving on mission assignments 

From the Newton Kansan
August 8, 2008

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Former Western District Youth Minister accepts Mission Network position

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New Hispanic Church opens in Newton, Kansas

Read about our newest Church Plant - Casa Betania

From Mennonite Church USA news service

From The Mennonite

From The Newton Kansan
April 30, 2008 

 

No words big enough for Greensburg Mennonite’s gratitude
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by Laurie Oswald Robinson for Mennonite Church USA Executive Leadership

 

Jeff Blackburn, pastor of the Greensburg Mennonite Church

Oración por una amiga - Spanish
A prayer for a friend - English

 By Violeta Ajquejay, Newton, Kansas

 

originally posted in Spanish on the
Mennonite Women USA's Postcard and Prayer e-letter

  

SARABA, Burkina Faso (AIMM/Mennonite Mission Network) The elders in Saraba had a lot of explaining to do when they resurrected a traditional marriage ceremony last December to honor Robin and Zachary Heppner Entz

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  Betty Epp, Service a lifelong committment

 

 

Abraham Hadish and Hannah Klaassen
Photographer: Sarah Klaassen

 
Refugee resettlement in Kansas invites relationships

 

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Coming Events

New Western District Moderator



On June 28, at the Conference's annual sessions held in Hesston, Kansas, Western District Moderator, Jay Goering , passed the gavel on to his successor, Brenda Glanzer Lilliston.  Mr. Goering  has been moderator of Western District since 2006. Ms Liliston will retain the position of moderator until the summer of 2010.


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Coming Events 

August 31-September 1, 2008 - Mental Health Retreat, Camp Mennoscah 

September 6-7, 2008 - Mennonite Women in Mission Retreat, Camp Mennoscah

September 13, 2008 - Jumpstart, Faith Mennonite Church, Newton, KS 

September 14, 2008 (4:00 p.m.) - Camp Mennoscah Director's House dedication

September 14-18, 2008 - Work and Play Retreat, Camp Mennoscah

October 10-12, 2008 - Mennofolk on the Prairie Family Camp, Camp Mennoscah 

October 11, 2008 - Proclamation by Design:  Worship and the Visual Arts, Shalom Mennonite Church, Newton, KS

October 25, 2008 - WDC Reference Council, First Mennonite Church, Hillsboro, KS 

October 26, 2008 - Music & Storytelling with Jonathan Larson, First Mennonite Church, Newton, KS

October 27, 2008 - Pastors' Day Apart, Hope Mennonite Church, Wichita, KS

September 18-20, 2009 - "And You Welcomed Me:  a Consultation of the People of God on Immigration", Dallas, TX (a national gathering to network, resource and develop pastoral solutions to the challenge of immigration, sponsored by Mennonite Mission Network, hosted by Western District Conference)

 


Coming Events