A broader movement in church properties
At the end of 2022, Seattle Mennonite Church (SMC) donated its former Mennonite Voluntary Service (MVS) house to the Trans Women of Color Solidarity Network, free of charge and with no strings attached. They did this as a reparative action. An article from Mennonite Church USA (MC USA) details the intentional and yearslong process that SMC […]
Service Adventurers forge peace from war
We are called to community A message from Marisa Smucker, Interim Executive Director As Christians, we are called to a different standard than the rest of the world. We seek to follow the way of Jesus and believe that strength and wisdom is provided through the Holy Spirit. God reaches out to each of us, […]
Neta Faye Yoder served God’s people in Japan for 35 years
Neta Faye Yoder, who served God’s people in Japan for 35 years, died April 22, in Iowa. She was a member of West Union Mennonite Church, Parnell, Iowa. In 1961, Neta Faye and her husband Marvin Yoder moved to Japan with their children, as missionaries for Mennonite Board of Missions, a predecessor agency of Mennonite […]
Mission and Education
When various Anabaptist groups joined the global Protestant mission movement in the nineteenth century, their outreach efforts soon included education. To take one example, in the late 1800s a small group of mission-minded young people from Pennsylvania met to discuss how they might reach out to their neighbors through Sunday schools and service projects. This […]
A windmill becomes a windfall
Living out our calling together A message from Marisa Smucker, Interim Executive Director At Mennonite Mission Network, we believe that all our activities should be rooted in our shared calling. Engaging with cultures and contexts in a constantly changing world makes us look at how we live, as individuals and as a […]
Shoulder-tappers make service happen!
What happens when you’re a 👉shoulder tapper👈 for service? Just ask Ginny Miller, Lexie Coburn and Sam Setiawan! Their gap years with Service Adventure were thanks to cousins, friends and mentors who did the program themselves, then shared stories of their experience with others. Did service shape your life? Share your service story (and this […]
Service Adventure: Grow into community!
What’s a classic Service Adventure experience? ☑Cross-country skiing? ☑Cozy conversations over chai? ☑Sharing a meal you made from scratch? All of the above! Ginny Miller and Lexie Coburn, 2020-21 Service Adventure participants, share some highlights. Service Adventure is an opportunity to grow in community with peers and a unit leader. Discover what a gap year after high […]
Indonesia Tour open for applications
Youth Venture Tour 14 days Ages 15-22 July 12-26, 2023 $2,900 per participant cost covers round-trip transportation from the United States to Indonesia, visas on arrival, local transportation, three meals per day, tours and lodging. Application deadline: May 1 Apply Explore other cultures and faiths Stretched across the equator southeast of Asia, Indonesia is the […]
Inspire hope choose peace
Choosing peace on Peace Island By Mike Sherrill When the people of God choose peace, we experience the fullness of God’s work in the world. The act of choosing peace — of denying the power of violence — inspires hope for all people and serves as a small window into who Jesus was and […]
Making our way
Reflections on Mennonite Mission Network’s 20th anniversary Since the day it was established 20 years ago, Mennonite Mission Network has been striving to follow Jesus’ teachings and avoid approaches to mission that rely on colonial systems. It’s a God inspired core value handed to us by forebearers such as J.D. Graber, Irene and Ed Weaver, and […]
Mennonite Voluntary Service house sale to contribute to peacemaking
ELKHART, Ind. (Mennonite Mission Network) — Mennonite Mission Network expands its vision for partnering in peacemaking, social justice and anti–racism ministries with proceeds from the recent sale of the Mennonite Voluntary Service (MVS) house in Washington, D.C. Mission Network will tithe proceeds to the Washington, D.C., MVS host congregations: Community House Church, Washington, D.C., […]
Mission and Health
The gospels portray physical healing as a central component of Jesus’s ministry, and the Acts of the Apostles and the epistles suggest that healing was important in the early church. Caring for and restoring the integrity of the body is, in these New Testament examples, a sign of creation’s renewal and the arrival of God’s […]