Your support makes service opportunities happen!
Learn how Mennonite Voluntary Service (MVS) participants join in intentional community with peers, serve with local nonprofits, and plug into the neighborhood and a local congregation. 2022-23 Tucson MVS unit participants Michaela Esau, Cade Fisher, Jessie Landis, and Andrea Troyer share how their MVS experience helped shape their perspectives on church, work, money and peacemaking. Your […]
Your support makes missional education happen!
Learn how Robin Gingerich, mission associate with Mennonite Mission Network, joins in the educational mission of LCC International University in Klaipèda, Lithuania! Gingerich is an instructor and administrator at LCC. She works with the BA English and the MA TESOL programs, joining in the university’s mission of providing Christ-centered education and fostering community among nearly […]
Your support makes worldwide partnerships happen!
Learn how Christy and Peter, workers with Mennonite Mission Network, join in partnership with their colleagues and community in N’Djamena, Chad, Africa! In this bonus interview, Peter Sensenig tells a story of his colleague’s journey of forgiveness. The Harrison Sensenig family serves with Mennonite Mission Network and Eastern Mennonite Missions in N’Djamena. There, Christy works at […]
Mennonites in Ecuador reach out as their country struggles
This story first appeared on the Canadian Mennonite website. In August, Iglesia Cristiana Anabautista Menonita de Ecuador (ICAME) published a statement calling for prayers amid escalating violence in the country. Alexandra Meneses, who coordinates the Women’s Group and the Discipleship and Liturgy Group at ICAME, explained that the call for prayers and peace followed the […]
Your support makes theological education happen!
Joel Beachy (pastor at East Union Mennonite Church in Kalona, Iowa) and Nathan Luitjens (executive conference minister with Central Plains Mennonite Conference) talk about their conference’s partnership with Iglesia Cristiana Menonita de Colombia and Mennonite Mission Network. Conversations and visits beginning in 1990 led to Mission Network forming a partnership for work in Ecuador and Venezuela together with Iglesia Cristiana Menonita de […]
Your support makes peacemaking happen!
Day of giving: April 16Donate now! Oscar Siwali is the founder and director of SADRA Conflict Transformation (South African Development and Reconstruction Agency), an organization dedicated to building a society that embraces peaceful methods of conflict resolution and building partnership. SADRA provides training for students and communities in peer mediation, as peacekeepers during riots and works to diminish xenophobia. The […]
Here with purpose: Andi Santoso
Every organization has a purpose; an answer to the deceptively simple question, "Why?" At Mennonite Mission Network, that "why" is to lead, mobilize and equip the church to participate in holistic witness to Jesus Christ — across the street, all through the marketplaces and around the world. Through this Q&A series, Mission Network asks staff […]
Markers commemorate Bodéwadmi-Myaamia Trail in northern Indiana
The first markers acknowledging the existence of a commercial route established by Indigenous Peoples to connect present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Chicago, Illinois, were unveiled on the campus of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Sept. 29. An important commercial route once traversed the land on which the campus of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) is located, in […]
First memorial signage of Bodewadmi Myaamia Trail to be installed September 29
Elkhart, Ind. — The Potawatomi and Miami Trail Marker Group — in partnership with Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS), Mennonite Central Committee Great Lakes (MCC Great Lakes) and Mennonite Mission Network — will unveil the first memorial signage of the Bodewadmi-Myaamia (Potawatomi-Miami) Trail at AMBS on Friday, September 29, 10:20 – 10:40 a.m. There will […]
Apache Stronghold continues prayerful struggle to protect sacred places
Situated in the Tonto National Forest of central Arizona, Chi’chil Biłdagoteel, or “Oak Flat” in English, is a region of significant cultural, ecological and historical importance. It is known for its unique geological formations, diverse flora and fauna, and its significance to multiple Indigenous communities. The Tonto National Forest was officially designated as a national […]
Service Adventure units welcome new participants
NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) – Service Adventure is often described as a ‘gap year experience’ – a year after high school to gain perspective before diving back into school, a job, or whatever is next. This gap year is not a pause in education, but it is a shift in growth: from academic to […]
Celebration of life in community carries on Service Adventure lifestyle
Heather and Jason Potsander’s lives were shaped by Mennonite Mission Network’s Service Adventure program. What they learned in Service Adventure continues to sustain them as they traverse difficulties and face death. Their response is celebration. Although Service Adventure isn’t a match-making service, it was effective in bringing soul partners together. This Mennonite Mission Network program […]