Community living takes work!
Service Adventure confession: living with other people takes work! 👷♀️ Check out the video to learn how Service Adventure participants Anna and Neeltje have made living in community with other participants and unit leaders happen! Go to the Service Adventure webpage for current participant and leadership openings in places across the United States.
Tap a shoulder for service leadership!
👉Shoulder-tapping👈 isn’t just for service participants! Rachel wanted to do something that would reach out beyond herself. Her friends knew that being a Service Adventure leader would be a great fit for her. The rest is history! Check out the Service Adventure webpage for current participant and leadership openings.
What makes a good Service Adventure leader?
A leader doesn’t have it all "figured out."🙅♀️ Instead, they’re willing to keep growing and learning with others! Find out how Rachel has grown through being the leader of a Service Adventure unit. Check out the Service Adventure webpage for current participant and leadership openings.
Service Adventure leaders help units grow!
What does being a Service Adventure unit leader look like? For Rachel, it’s cultivating a space where participants can grow and ask questions. 🌻 Check out the Service Adventure website for current participant and leadership openings.
Service Adventure is all about community!
Service Adventure = community. It’s built into the program’s foundation. Why is that important? Just ask Rachel, one of the Service Adventure unit leaders! Check out the Service Adventure webpage for current participant and leadership openings.
Mission Network seminars at MennoCon23 for all ages
Mennonite Mission Network will host five seminars at MennoCon23, the biennial convention of Mennonite Church USA, in Kansas City, Missouri, July 3 – 6. Towards the May/June 2024 South African General Election Presented by Oscar Siwali, Director, Southern African Development and Reconstruction Agency How do church leaders and community mediators in South Africa help the electoral community […]
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, […]
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 […]
Youth Venture Republic of Benin Tour is open for applications
2 weeks Ages 15-22 Dates: The last two weeks in July 2023 (details to come) Cost: $ 2,700, plus travel to U.S. departure city. Covers travel from United States to Benin, in-country travel, meals and lodging. There will be an additional cost for required vaccinations for entry into Benin. Accommodations will be on the […]