God’s calling creates new family
Interview with Alisha and Joshua Garber, mission workers in Barcelona, Spain, and with David Becerra, pastor of Comunidad Evangélica Menonita in Barcelona. When someone says "mission work," it’s all too easy to just think about ministry in developing countries. But tell me what it’s like to be a mission worker in Europe. Alisha: In Europe, […]
Hitting the reset button through service
NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) – Volunteers with SOOP have to balance many responsibilities during their service time, but few would describe creating homeschool curriculums, or managing passports and immunizations for their children, to be a typical part of their experience. The Siegrist and Miller families described their experiences with SOOP as anything but "typical." […]
Mennonites fight White supremacists with love
PAOLI, Indiana (Mennonite Mission Network) – A church can respond in many ways when White supremacists put their town on national news. One of these ways is to overwhelm evil with good, said Wendell Lantz of Paoli Mennonite Fellowship in southern Indiana. Lantz illustrated his point using a behavior learned in childhood. In his family, […]
Patterns of Faith
There is a reason this quilt wasn’t like the others – why it didn’t end up in a tote box in Carol Honderich’s sewing room in Goshen, Indiana. For this particular project, a quilt based on the women of the Bible, God provided Honderich with confidence, encouragement and purpose. The quilt took Honderich three years […]
God’s limitless hospitality
ORLANDO, Florida – Earlier in her life, Spanish vocalist Nohemy Garcia says she wrote songs she failed to finish. That changed the day Garcia, a Mennonite of Burgos, Spain, accepted the Holy Spirit’s challenge to finish a song on which she’d been working a long time. After partnering with Mennonite Mission Network to produce […]
Following God’s call isn’t about what we do, but about who we are
ORLANDO, Florida (Mennonite Mission Network) – How should an aunt respond when her 13-year-old niece laments, "I don’t know what to do with my life?" That encounter stunned Tonia Martin, personnel counselor for Mennonite Mission Network, she said during her youth seminar, "Let Your Life Speak," at Mennonite Church USA’s July convention. Martin said […]
10 ways to get the most from your service assignment
As last year’s MVSers were finishing up their terms, we asked them this question: If your friend was about to start an MVS term and asked you for advice on how to get the most out of their experience, what would you tell them? Here are a few of their responses: 1. Have house meals together […]
Live your call: Speak
"In the beginning was the Word." When we hear the opening lines of John, they call to mind the opening lines of Scripture: "In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void" (Genesis 1:1-2). Here, in the depths of time, God orders the world. We learn that […]
PeaceLab special edition: Mennonite Disaster Service in Texas
Kevin King, executive director of Mennonite Disaster Service, talks with Jason and Hannah from Texas. King was part of an assessment team in Texas last week beginning to assess damage from Tropical Storm Harvey and working to plan for recovery efforts.
Episode 18: Future Church Summit debrief with Darrin Snyder Belousek
Darrin Snyder Belousek chats with PeaceLab, reflecting on the Future Church Summit, held during the Mennonite convention in Orlando, July, 2017.
The MVS experience in Washington, D.C.
MVS participants Katie Miller and Hanna Heishman discuss their experiences serving with the Washington, D.C., unit.
Giving yourself, through knowledge and love
Lithuania: Responding to the refugee crisis Across most European countries, and on every news channel, are the faces of newly arrived refugees. This refugee crisis in Europe is the largest in modern history. While many agencies worked to give refugees food, clean water, and tents, many Iraqi and Syrian students had nowhere to continue their […]