Discipleship

Stories from 2025
Sawatzky and Teguh Karyanto, STAKWW professor and Sawatzky's host, share conversation over a meal. Photo provided.
MVS and Service Adventure
The 2025-26 Anchorage, Alaska, Service Adventure unit . Left to right: Ian Unzicker, Ruben Veigel, Adriana Duerksen and Mir Knego (unit leader). Photo by Michael Oyer.
Just Peace Pilgrimage
The group spent Saturday afternoon on Chapman’s Peak, a mountain with a sheer western face overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Steve Schallert, Director of International Solidarity at Iziko Lamaqabane, had the pilgrims reflect on the trip and create a roadmap for themselves for one week, one month, and one year after they return home to their normal lives.
Service Adventure
Miriam Offe volunteered at a head start preschool in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, during her time in Service Adventure in 2023.
Anchorage Service Adventure
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Mennonite Voluntary Service
Photo by Ali Zolghadr on Unsplash
Mangos remind us to welcome a stranger
By Emily Keefer
Alamosa
Service Adventure
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Colorado Springs Service Adventure participant Shawna Hurst shares at church in 2024.
Board member
Donald and Shirley Kempf at Follow Jesus 25
Bolivia anniversary
exactly 50 years after the first baptisms that launched Iglesia Evangélica Menonita Boliviana, nearly 700 members from the twelve churches and three church plants gathered to reflect on their history, celebrate their faith, and look to the future.