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 […]
Stinging nettles, incarnational ministry in time of COVID-19
BARCELONA (Mennonite Mission Network) — The nature of our ministry in Barcelona is almost all incarnational, meaning it is the regular, natural contact with folks that allows us to be examples of Christ. Such relationships develop both face-to-face and virtually. With our technological skills, we are leaning into a virtual ministry as we adjust to […]
MVSers work to support immigrants with dignity and respect
Immigration is a hotly debated topic in America today. With 24/7 coverage, argumentative approaches, and fearmongering, the news cycle seemingly wants us to forget what immigration is actually about: real people with hopes, dreams, struggles and fears. With such a complicated system, these real people have to work through a process with hurdles and obstacles […]
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 […]
“That special year in a huge house:” MVS alumni gather together to laugh, share and worship
NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) — Through the late 1960s to mid-1970s, dozens of college-age young adults filtered through the Voluntary Service (VS) house in La Junta, Colorado. Some arrived as conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War. Others sought a change of pace after school. All left the house with the memories of close community […]
“Women talking is like a sweet candy” – Sister Care in Thailand
We first met Memee Yang in 2012 when she phoned with a request that sounded like a biblical Macedonian call. As president of the U.S. Hmong Mennonite Church of Mission women’s organization, she asked for the Sister Care leadership training seminar to be shared with Hmong women in Thailand. Eight years later in 2020, Carolyn […]
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 […]