A conversation with Juliet Kilpin
Sharon Norton, co-director for Africa and Europe ministries for Mennonite Mission Network, interviews Juliet Kilpin about the effects of COVID-19 on refugees in the United Kingdom. Juliet is a co-founder of Peaceful Borders, an organization that supports refugees coming to the United Kingdom.
A conversation with Deb Byler
Deb Byler is an international partner for Mennonite Mission Network. She serves in Guatemala, focusing on spiritual growth and leadership development among the women leaders in the Kekchi Mennonite Church. Latin America Area Director Linda Shelly interviews Deb as part of The Hope Series.
Latin America workers, partners show faith-based resilience in unraveling times
NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) — Mennonite Mission Network partners in Ecuador and Peru are transforming financial aid into the "loaves and fishes" of groceries and rent assistance for their members suffering from impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of $4,000 is empowering Mennonite churches in Iquitos, Peru, and the Quito Mennonite Church in […]
Migration, empathy and welcome
In his Pulitzer Prize-winning epic, Grapes of Wrath (1939), John Steinbeck recounts the harshness of the Great Depression and gives us a glimpse into the struggles of migrant farmworkers. In it, he tells the heart-rending stories of people who loaded up their vehicles with all they could fit and moved from a devastated and ravaged […]
Barcelona giving and receiving all year-round
Through the Garbers’ ministry, Mennonite Mission Network partners with the Mennonite Evangelical Community of Barcelona, with a focus on youth outreach and congregational mission. Did you know? $25 pays for community building and outreach activities.$50 helps pay for recording new songs to be used in Sunday schools and youth groups.$100 helps pay for leadership training […]
Full Circle
This is the story of Anna Melinda (Hallman) Byler, daughter of Eli S. and Melinda Hallman. She married B. Frank Byler, and together they joined the great missionary expansion of Mennonites in the 20th Century, which took them to Argentina and Uruguay. There they raised their family of five children: Stanley, Marjory, Dennis, Carol, and […]
SOOP enables book lovers to become part of the story
NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) — Since Judy and Keith Harder retired, they’ve finally had time to tackle a stack of unread books. In a recent interview, they said they relish the more reflective pace after ending longtime vocations: she as a college theater director, and he as a Mennonite pastor and denominational leader. Yet, […]
Walking in peace through perplexing times
The real deal By Laurie Oswald Robinson In 2008, I left six and a half years of communication work with Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Women USA for a life of freelancing. This past May, I returned to the offices on Main Street in Newton, Kansas, to serve as editor for Mennonite Mission Network. […]
Share your faith with Jesus with others in Argentina
Mission Network partners with the Iglesia Evangélica Menonita Argentina (IEMA) and with indigenous evangelical churches in the Argentine Chaco. These churches work to spread the peace of Christ throughout Argentina. Did you know? $25 can help volunteers travel to different communities where they share God’s love. $50 can help children and youth participate in church […]
Mission and Migration
To talk about migration is to talk about identity, both individual identity and the collective identities of communities of faith. Forced migration characterized and shaped the early Anabaptist movement—a movement created, in part, to ensure religious freedom and the ability to practice faith as separate communities. This pattern of movement, originally meant to support a […]
Practical and profound
The growth of a vibrant movement of voluntary service is an inspiring story of simple, youthful, practical Christian idealism applied to human suffering and struggle. Many Mennonite voluntary or alternative service programs birthed sincere discipleship convictions and unleashed the latent talent and skills of thousands of young men and women engaged in peaceful service. […]
Walking in peace through perplexing times
Though they grew up in different eras, many young people in the past seven and a half decades have shared a similar dream: In a world of militarism, materialism and me-ism, they desired to seek a road less traveled. Instead of marching to the beat of the times, they wanted to follow Jesus into a […]