Escape room, art auction, and other fun at MennoCon19
If you’re headed to MennoCon19, don’t miss the Mennonite Mission Network booth! Stop by between seminars for games, snacks, and other fun. A main feature at our booth is an escape room where you and your friends can test your skills at finding solutions to puzzles involving Mission Network’s global partners. You can jump […]
Learn more about the new Sent Network at MennoCon19
Creating strong church planters is the backbone of leadership development within the Mennonite Church. Mennonite Mission Network has been working toward this goal through the annual Sent conference. According to Sandy Miller, director for Church Relations at Mission Network, the Sent conference "was conceived as a space within the Mennonite Church USA denomination for church […]
Several thousand Mennonites seek to gather as peacemakers in Kansas City
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Mission Network) – Roughly 3,000 Mennonites are gathering July 2-6 in Kansas City, Missouri as people seeking to be Anabaptist peacemakers in the 21st century. Glen Guyton, the first African American to become executive director of Mennonite Church USA (MC USA), will lead its 500 delegates at […]
Connect with Mennonite Mission Network international workers at MennoCon 2019
NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) – Mennonite Mission Network will offer face-to-face connection with eight Mission Network service workers traveling from afar to interact with their U.S. brothers and sisters in Christ. Throughout the July 2-6 convention in Kansas City, workers from Ecuador, Colombia, Barcelona and Australia hope to connect with supporters and friends at […]
SOOP helps deferred dream come true at Koinonia Farms
NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) – Ever since Elizabeth Raid was a student at Bluffton (Ohio) College [now Bluffton University] in the mid-1960s, she had wanted to visit Koinonia Farm in Americus, Georgia. It took her nearly 50 years to do it. Her desire was born after her father, Howard Raid, an economics and business […]
A peek behind the curtain of servant projects
Servant projects have been a convention highlight for many years, giving participants the opportunity to connect with nonprofits and do good in cities across the country. But what really goes into making them possible for thousands (yep, thousands) of convention-goers to serve in the local community? Reaching out Staff start working on making connections with […]
Service Adventure from both sides
I grew up in Goshen [Indiana], attended Goshen High School, and, like my sister, parents and grandparents before me, I was pretty sure I was heading to Goshen College. But I had a strong desire to do it on my own terms. So, rather than head straight from high school to college, I took time out for a year with Service Adventure […]
SOOP participants make former San Antonio placement their permanent home
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Mennonite Mission Network) – The Guatemalan woman and her two teenage sons were flying out of San Antonio to their new home somewhere in the United States. In working together with their sponsors, they had created a new beginning for themselves. Ruth Mellinger, a volunteer with SOOP (Service Opportunities with Our Partners), […]
Mennonite Voluntary Service webinar
Watch Mennonite Mission Network’s webinar celebrating the 75th anniversary of Mennonite Voluntary Service. Learn how God inspired many to live out their faith through service and how the program continues to move young people to put their faith into action. Speakers Stefan Baumgartner, is a 2015–17 MVS Alumn, now living in San Francisco, California. He currently is […]
Sent conference emboldens church planters to heed and hold on to their holy calling
ENGLEWOOD, Colorado (Mennonite Mission Network) – When Gisselle Guity and several other women sensed a call to plant a church among marginalized women in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 2014, they quickly moved forward – and then stalled. They had tenderness of heart for abused women in poverty, but they lacked the tools for sustaining […]
Rebuilding houses, constructing friendships
For the second year in a row, all five Service Adventure units, with some Mennonite Mission Network staff, spent a week together serving with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS). This year I was struck by the spirit of the week. It was an exhausting time, due to not only the full schedule but also the tiring, hard work; yet everyone seemed genuinely happy, even joyful, to be serving because we were serving together. “I always love having […]
Power of my power
Mennonite Mission Network held its fourth annual Sent gathering April 26-28 in Denver, Colorado. After two days of fellowship, testimony and teaching, the conference closed with worship at Beloved Community Mennonite Church, our host congregation. Located in Englewood, our service marked the 20th anniversary of the mass shootings at Columbine High School, in the adjacent […]