The International Community of Mennonite Brethren was officially launched at the 1990 Mennonite World Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba as a partnership of global Mennonite Brethren conferences. ICOMB was originally conceived by leaders of MBMS International at an international mission consultation in Curitiba, Brazil in 1988. ICOMB functions as a framework for Mennonite Brethren conferences worldwide to relate as peers rather than as mission churches under the structure of MBMS International. In 2005 the term "committee" was officially changed to "community" by the conference representatives assembled at ICOMB's annual leadership summit in Japan. In 2005, Victor Wall, president and representative of the Paraguay-German Mennonite Brethren Conference, was chosen to be the first Executive Secretary of ICOMB. He completed his term in 2010. In 2011, David Wiebe of Canada was chosen to be Executive Secretary. He had resigned from his position as Executive Director of the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches in 2010. In 2018 Rudi Plett of the Paraguay-German Mennonite Brethren Conference, who had chaired the ICOMB Executive Committee 2011-2017, and then served as Associate Director overseeing the Latin American churches, was chosen to be Executive Secretary. Membership ICOMB members are national associations of Mennonite Brethren churches, also known as conferences. Names of members are listed by continent.
Africa
Community of the Churches of the Mennonite Brethren of Congo – CEFMC Evangelical Church of the Mennonite Brethren of Angola – IEIMA Mennonite Brethren Church of Malawi - MBCM
Association of the Mennonite Brethren of Portugal – AIMP Bund Taufgesinnter Gemeinden – BTG Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches in Germany – AMBD Mennonite Free Church of Austria – MFO Mennonite Brethren Church of Bavaria – VMBB Lithuania Free Christian Church – LLKB
Latin America
Association of the Mennonite Brethren Church of Colombia – AIHMC Brazilian Convention of Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Churches – COBIM Council of the Mennonite Brethren Churches of Uruguay – CCHMU Evangelical Convention of Paraguayan Mennonite Brethren Churches – CEIPHM Paraguayan Mennonite Brethren Conference – AHM Mennonite Brethren Evangelical Church of Peru – IEHM United Evangelical Church of Mennonite Brethren in Panama – IEUHM Christian Peace Church of Mexico – ICPM
