Committee members are (l–r) Sarah Thompson (North America), Amandus Reimer (South America), Elina Ciptadi (Asia), Khohlwani Moyo (Africa) and Barbara Kärcher (Europe).

Youth want to be involved in decisions in their churches, especially on issues relating to them. This is a message a five-member youth committee will give in its action plan to the next Mennonite World Conference (MWC) executive committee meeting. After 18 months of e-mail contact, the group (created after the 2003 Global Youth Summit in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe), now called “AMIGOS: A global community of youth Anabaptists” had their first face-to-face meeting in St. Jacobs, Ontario with Elina Ciptadi of Jakarta, Indonesia, as chair. They discussed challenges like living in a pluralistic world, bringing intimacy with God back to their families and church, and mentoring youth in the church, as well as concerns unique to their continent.  The group is currently working on planning and fundraising for the Global Youth Summit that will happen in Paraguay in 2009.