Learn more about the new Sent Network at MennoCon19
Creating strong church planters is the backbone of leadership development within the Mennonite Church. Mennonite Mission Network has been working toward this goal through the annual Sent conference. According to Sandy Miller, director for Church Relations at Mission Network, the Sent conference "was conceived as a space within the Mennonite Church USA denomination for church […]
Several thousand Mennonites seek to gather as peacemakers in Kansas City
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Mission Network) – Roughly 3,000 Mennonites are gathering July 2-6 in Kansas City, Missouri as people seeking to be Anabaptist peacemakers in the 21st century. Glen Guyton, the first African American to become executive director of Mennonite Church USA (MC USA), will lead its 500 delegates at […]
Connect with Mennonite Mission Network international workers at MennoCon 2019
NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) – Mennonite Mission Network will offer face-to-face connection with eight Mission Network service workers traveling from afar to interact with their U.S. brothers and sisters in Christ. Throughout the July 2-6 convention in Kansas City, workers from Ecuador, Colombia, Barcelona and Australia hope to connect with supporters and friends at […]
SOOP helps deferred dream come true at Koinonia Farms
NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) – Ever since Elizabeth Raid was a student at Bluffton (Ohio) College [now Bluffton University] in the mid-1960s, she had wanted to visit Koinonia Farm in Americus, Georgia. It took her nearly 50 years to do it. Her desire was born after her father, Howard Raid, an economics and business […]
Learn more about the Missional Discipleship Initiative at MennoCon 2019
"The Missional Discipleship Initiative (MDI), a program of Mennonite Mission Network, seeks to ignite a culture of disciples making disciples within the church. This is crucial because, according to Alan Hirsch in his book The Forgotten Ways, "If we fail at intentionally making disciples of Jesus, we will probably fail in everything else." MDI’s creation […]
A peek behind the curtain of servant projects
Servant projects have been a convention highlight for many years, giving participants the opportunity to connect with nonprofits and do good in cities across the country. But what really goes into making them possible for thousands (yep, thousands) of convention-goers to serve in the local community? Reaching out Staff start working on making connections with […]
How to have a great (video) interview
Sometimes it seems like I interview people over videoconferencing platforms all-the-livelong-day. From Kenya to Ecuador to Canada to Spain to Germany, to the tiny island of Mauritius, and all over the good ol’ US of A, I have Skyped, Zoomed, FaceTimed, and WhatsApp’d my way across the globe. So I like to think I’ve become […]
Family gives up small-town security to gain wider-world exposure
HESSTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) – When it came time to discern what mattered more to their family life — having worldly security or forging global relationships — Mark and DeeDee Landes agreed on one thing: They had a window of opportunity to make a move while their kids were young. With each new risk-taking […]
Service Adventure from both sides
I grew up in Goshen [Indiana], attended Goshen High School, and, like my sister, parents and grandparents before me, I was pretty sure I was heading to Goshen College. But I had a strong desire to do it on my own terms. So, rather than head straight from high school to college, I took time out for a year with Service Adventure […]
SEMILLA leader brings biblical peace witness from Guatemala to Kansas
NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) – When SEMILLA (Latin American Anabaptist Seminary) Director Willi Hugo Pérez spoke at Hesston (Kansas) College this spring, his encouragement to be biblically grounded in good Anabaptist peace theology was well-received, yet there was something even more inspiring. It was the sharing of how he struggled with hate after his […]
Reflections on service in Albuquerque, New Mexico
When looking back on my year in Service Adventure, I initially felt overwhelmed. How could I sum up an entire life-changing 10 months in a few paragraphs? I decided to think of a few words that came to mind when I thought back over this last year: community, adventure, and love. Community is something that […]
Ending a year, starting a journey
As we have gone through these last 10 months, we have all had highs and lows. This year has been life-giving, but also challenging. We have learned about ourselves and each other. We have become rooted in both our Service Adventure community and the larger community in which we live. This year has allowed us […]