Reflecting on the hospitality of Jesus
For Mission Month 2021, Alisha and Joshua Garber reflect on how Jesus’ hospitality inspires them in their ministry in Barcelona, Catalonia (a region where allegiance to Spain vies with voices calling for independence). For more information on the Garbers and their ministry, click here.
Trailblazing and contemporary initiatives pave way for antiracist future
NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) — As Mennonite Mission Network takes new steps towards becoming a more antiracist organization, a pathway paved by the agency’s forebears and contemporary initiatives is pointing the way. From the late 1800s until today, people of color have helped shape a more multicultural Mennonite church. Mission Network’s leaders say that […]
Armed conflict threatens environment
Editor’s Note: Mennonite Mission Network invited Ben Tapper, a freelancer from Indianapolis, Indiana, to write a reflection on the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict, observed Nov. 6. The 21st International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict was marked around the […]
Transforming into vulnerability
In Luke 10, Jesus commissions 70 new missionary disciples and sends them out ahead of him into the towns and settlements he will pass through on his way to Jerusalem. He instructs them to travel light, so that they will have to depend on whatever hospitality might be offered to them along the way. He […]
Looking up, looking around, looking forward
The reflections in this annual report sparked a memory about how transformation occurred in my life about 15 years ago. I had been traveling to Costa Rica with ministry groups, as well as on my own, for about 5 ½ years. I straddled these visits with a settled life in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One day, near […]
Story 5: All invited to the Lamb’s throne
"After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: ‘Salvation belongs […]
Embodying oneness through the enfleshment of the Eucharist
Editor’s Note: Mennonite Mission Network invited Melody Pannell to share a reflection on World Communion Sunday, Oct. 3. She dovetails her thoughts with 1 Corinthians 11:17-22 (NRSV): 17 Now in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse. 18 For, to begin with, […]
Family to help sustain a home for people living in exile
NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) — When Joseph and Rachel Givens contacted Mennonite Mission Network about the possibility of becoming mission workers, they came with a keen understanding of what they were not. They were not church planters. They were not pastors. They both, however, knew that they shared a strong calling to reach out […]
Christ leads mission agency to sail for new seas
NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) — The wind of the Holy Spirit is carrying Mennonite Mission Network into uncharted waters and forging more nimble, integrative and mutual mission partnerships in a changing church and culture, agency leaders said in recent interviews. The most urgent challenge in the realignment is to keep Christ at the center […]
New senior executive of Operations desires to be Christ’s servant
NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) — In early August, Martin Gunawan was not searching for a new job. But by Sept. 20, he had begun his first day with Mennonite Mission Network as senior executive of Operations. That quick turnaround happened when his wife, Chika, saw an advertisement for the job in the newsletter of […]
Generosity helps fire-ravaged Peru community rebuild
NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) — A generous outpouring of $13,000 USD in donations and grants is helping Iglesia Cristiana Menonita Iquitos Perú (Iquitos Mennonite Church) rebuild five houses that were ravaged by a fire on Aug. 29. Local and global communities quickly offered help after the fire on Isla Iquitos, a small island near […]
Former seeds sown bear fruit in 21st-century mission realignment
NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) — The seeds of Mennonite Mission Network’s ongoing evolution of walking together with partners in mission were sown and cultivated by many committed leaders, including J.D. Graber, Irene and Ed Weaver, Miriam E. Krantz and Stanley W. Green. Mission Network leaders who were mentored by the late Wilbert Shenk […]