A conversation with Myrrl Byler — Part 2
In this second video, John F. Lapp, senior executive for International Partner Engagement at Mennonite Mission Network, continues his conversation with Myrrl Byler, executive director of Mennonite Partners in China, as part of The Hope Series. Mission Network partners with MPC. MPC has carried out a wide variety of academic exchange programs in China for […]
Mission Network collaborates with global pandemic relief fund
NOTE: Mennonite World Conference (MWC) has given Mennonite Mission Network permission to add to and reprint sections of an earlier report found here on MWC’s Global Church Sharing Fund. NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) — In healing solidarity with Anabaptist groups around the world, Mennonite Mission Network has contributed $15,000 for pandemic relief through Mennonite […]
A conversation with Rebekah York
Linda Shelly, director for Latin America ministries with Mennonite Mission Network, interviews Rebekah York. Rebekah serves in Bogotá with the Seminario Bíblico Menonita de Colombia (Mennonite Biblical Seminary of Colombia–SBMC) to prepare young leaders as well as provide continuing education opportunities for seasoned leaders in the churches. In her role, she accompanies the broad work […]
My grace is sufficient for thee
As part of The Hope Series Prayer, Church Relations representative Ann Jacobs shares from 2 Corinthians 12:9. "My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is made perfect in weakness." How might we imagine things in our lives to be different, to change or shift during these difficult times? This was initially streamed on September […]
DOOR webinar series brings together diverse voices for Teaching Collective
NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) – Just as every cloud has a silver lining, the global pandemic has created the opportunity for (and revealed the necessity of) positive change. Individuals and family groups have felt the tug of new possibilities in work schedules, cooking and eating habits, as well as education. Businesses have been swiftly […]
A conversation with Toni and Matthew Krabill — Part2
The second video in a two part series, Sharon Norton, co-director for Africa and Europe ministries for Mennonite Mission Network, interviews Toni and Matthew Krabill about their experience during this time of COVID-19 and social distancing. Toni and Matthew are based in Paris, France, at the Paris Mennonite Center. They help resource French-speaking churches throughout Europe […]
Cofán faith journeys inspire a storybook on baptism
NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) — Playing soccer and storytelling are key aspects of Naomi Ross Richer’s life in Ecuador and at Goshen (Indiana) College. The energy needed for both has helped her persevere to create a book about baptism for indigenous youth in the Ecuadorian rainforest. The inspiration for The Baptism Story — illustrated […]
A conversation with Toni and Matthew Krabill — Part 1
The first video in a two part series, Sharon Norton, co-director for Africa and Europe ministries for Mennonite Mission Network, interviews Toni and Matthew Krabill about their experience during this time of COVID-19 and social distancing. Toni and Matthew are based in Paris, France, at the Paris Mennonite Center. They help resource French-speaking churches throughout […]
Donor giving continues during pandemic shutdown
Editor’s note: To mark the National Day of Charity on Sept. 5 in the United States, Karen Horsman, Mennonite Mission Network’s director of Donor Relations, reflects on how grateful she and her team are for the ongoing generosity of donors during the COVID-19 pandemic. As this past winter deepened in northern Indiana, the news of […]
Reflections on a life of ministry in Venezuela
I looked at my phone early on the morning of Aug. 5 and saw that Pastor Erwin Mirabal, president of the church conference Red de Misiones Menonita de Venezuela, had died of COVID-19. We had been praying for him for two weeks. His condition was stable the day before. His death was a shock for […]
Pandemic can’t squelch passion for Service Adventure
NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) – Service Adventure unit leader Cindy Headings says that not even a pandemic has squelched her passion for serving for a fourth consecutive year. In fact, Headings says her longtime enthusiasm for leading the Colorado Springs, Colorado, unit was stoked even higher the first week in August. That’s when she […]
Seed of service formation grows into MVS re-envisioning
NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) — Following Marisa Smucker’s journey back to her beginnings is an exercise in understanding how one’s first two years of life can help shape the rest. When Smucker was a 19-month-old living in a Costa Rican orphanage, Dorothy and the late Lynn Smucker adopted her after doing five months of […]