Five hundred years after the first adult baptisms in Zurich, Switzerland, the Anabaptist movement is alive and well, flourishing in more than eighty countries around the world. In 2025, members of this global movement are invited to “look backward and live forward” into the next five hundred years of our participation in God’s renewing work in the world!

The Anabaptist faith tradition began as a movement of people dedicated to the Scriptures. As people of the book, Anabaptists draw from the entirety of Scripture to articulate who we are and what we believe. No single text adequately summarizes the Anabaptist experience. Throughout the Bible, we see many examples of how people used storytelling to shape a collective identity. How do we tell our stories? What stories from the past continue to be relevant to our current identity? And how does a deeper awareness of our past help us understand where we are and where we are going? Where are the places and communities where Anabaptistm is currently flourishing and what can we learn from those stories?

The season of Eastertide will conclude with an outdoor Pentecost worship service with our Anabaptist siblings from area Mennonite congregations at Goshen College on June 8.