This movement began in the 16th century within the Protestant Reformation in Europe. A small group of earnest young believers in Switzerland, lead by Conrad Grebel, attempted to recover the New Testament Christianity when they baptized and verbalized their faith in Jesus Christ. Fired by their new faith, the believers began to evangelize and baptize. The movement rapidly spread to South Germany and the Netherlands. The official churches, even some early protestant groups, immediately opposed the movement and scoffed at them as “Anabaptizers”, which literally means re-baptizers, because they practiced the baptism of adults. The state would not tolerate this change because in essence it defied the government-run church, despite the Anabaptist’s strong appeal to Scripture in support of their position. In a short time, many Anabaptist leaders were martyred. Thousands more died gruesome deaths at the hands of their persecutors over the next two generations. Fifty years of persecution took a terrible toll. The small groups lived without the right to own property or to meet publicly for worship. They moved to many places, including Russia and North America, seeking freedom to live their faith according to their consciences. For nearly every generation over the past 450 years, the church has experienced persecution somewhere in the world.

Through the years, Mennonites have developed a substantial ministry of emergency relief and development services which stand alongside church extension; and continue to stress peacemaking and family (spiritual and biological) relationships as important for wholeness.

At the center of Mennonite teaching is the need to believe in Jesus Christ as the model for life, and as the One who died and rose from the dead in order that people could live in union with God. They believe that the church should keep Christ’s life and ministry alive in the world, just as though Christ was still living on earth: that’s why they refer to the church as “the body of Christ”. Mennonites believe that the church is made of people whose sins have been forgiven and who choose to follow Christ’s teachings. They believe that Christians should try to relate to each other and the world in the same loving, forgiving way that Jesus practiced.

The realization of our school’s mission is channeled through the general goal of providing a learning context in which the students can develop their spiritual, intellectual, emotional, social, and physical talents to their maximum capacity, empowering to be useful citizens to society and to God.

The overall and final goal is thus affirmed: that the Gospel of God’s Kingdom be appropriated in the very process of meeting the child’s fundamental needs. The Gospel of God’s Kingdom is understood as God’s gift and promise of the in breaking of the new creation under the lordship of Christ. The fruits of the learning process expected to take place are comprehensive and they involve the different registers of behavior as well as interpersonal dynamics.