Alumni Voices – Todd Gusler
Todd Gusler served as a Service Adventure unit leader with the Raleigh, North Carolina unit from 2010-2013. For his alumni story, Todd described how his years of service were different than what he expected, a story about music from his service experience, and the experience that most influenced him from his time of service. Recorded […]
Alumni Voices – Barbara Ewy
Barbara Ewy served as a Mennonite Voluntary Service (MVS) participant in Albany, Oregon from 1980-1984. For her alumni story, she discussed what she learned about herself from her service experience, a story that has stayed with her from service, a time she was brave, and more! Recorded at the Mennonite Mission Network Alumni Stories Recording […]
Alumni Voices – Gordon Miller
Gordon Miller served as a Mennonite Voluntary Service (MVS) participant in Alamosa, Colorado from 2010-2013. For his alumni story, he discussed what he learned from his service experience. Recorded at the Mennonite Mission Network Alumni Stories Recording Booth at the 2019 MCUSA Convention in Kansas City, Missouri.
Alumni Voices – Joshua Schlabach and Karina Kreider
Joshua Schlabach and Karina Kreider served as MVS participants in Tucson, Arizona from 2014-2016. They discussed what they discovered about themselves during their service experience. Recorded at the Mennonite Mission Network Alumni Stories Recording Booth at the 2019 MCUSA Convention in Kansas City, Missouri.
Alumni Voices – Naomi Tice
Naomi Tice served as an MVS participant in Boulder, Colorado from 2010-2011. For her alumni story, she discussed what she would say to herself during her service term, what brought her the most joy during her service term, and which event sill teaches her lessons today. Recorded at the Mennonite Mission Network Alumni Stories Recording […]
A week with the Mississippi service-learning tour in photos
From Mar. 7-14, nine participants and three Mennonite Mission Network staff visited locations in Jackson, Meridian, and Mashulaville with the Mississippi service-learning tour. The tour, now in its second year, visits Civil Rights locations across Mississippi, and connects Mission Network program alumni and friends to service placements, partners and communities across the state. The photos below are […]
Spotlight and backstage: the drama of Youth Venture
NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) — Teenagers are in the spotlight when they share life-changing experiences while serving in Mennonite Mission Network’s Youth Venture program. Before the trip begins, however, it is their parents — and other shoulder-tappers such as youth sponsors, teachers and friends — who are backstage, giving the youth a last loving […]
MVS gears up for annual local leaders’ gathering
UPDATE: To help prevent the spread of COVID-19 the MVS local leaders’ gathering will now be held virtually instead of in person as previously stated. ELKHART, Indiana (Mennonite Mission Network) – Mennonite Voluntary Service staff and local unit leaders plan to gather Mar. 27-28 for the annual local leaders’ gathering in Elkhart, Indiana. This opportunity […]
Transformed by Colombia
Editor’s note: Eric and Kelly Frey Martin, who recently completed their three-year term of service with Mennonite Mission Network in Colombia, share how the experience shaped their lives and perspective on God’s mission in the world. They served in Colombia from January 2017 through October 2018 with Iglesia Cristiana Menonita de Colombia. They were based […]
Mission worker in Colombia leaves 75-year legacy
NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) — After 103 years and 44 days of life, Mary Hope Wood Stucky died Feb. 8 in Bogotá, Colombia, leaving a legacy of mission work spanning three-quarters of a century. That legacy began in the fall of 1945, when the General Conference Mennonite Church sent Mary Hope (Wood) and her […]
A SOOP sabbatical
HILLSBORO, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) — Some pastors take a sabbatical to be stretched and refreshed. Some to experience a new culture and enlarge their world. Others to establish new life rhythms of meditation and prayer. Judy and Ron Zook experienced all of the above as they spent two weeks of a pastoral sabbatical with […]
The death and deferment of migrant dreams
NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) — Alvaro Enciso, a Colombian artist, of Tucson, Arizona, has entered a red "river" of suffering in the Sonoran Desert. That’s where he places wooden crosses to memorialize migrants who die there while seeking dreams of freedom. Enciso learned of this "river" through Humane Borders, a humanitarian group that […]