Theme: Healing

Airdropped Christmas cards a reminder to prepare for Christ all year-round

This week’s blog in our 2024 Advent series comes from Jonah Yang. Jonah and his wife, Memee, are mission associates with Mennonite Mission Network. Their ministries focus on walking with Hmong people in Southeast Asia, an ethnic people group that can trace their roots back to central China. The Yangs ministries include: To learn how […]

New film, ‘Unexpected Peace,’ inspired by producer’s mission experience

Naylul Maraam Islamic Center is a Quranic school in Harlem, founded and led by Ustaz Abdou Mbaye (far left). Jonathan Bornman is interviewing Serigne Afia Niang. Director of Photography Ehab Assal is seated at camera and crew member Josh Feezer is standing, on the second camera. Photo by D. Michael Hostetler.

Jonathan Bornman first encountered Muridiyya Muslims in Senegal, where he and his wife, Carol, served for 10 years — sent by a partnership between Friends of the Wolof (FOW), African Inter-Mennonite Mission and Mennonite Board of Missions (a predecessor agency of Mennonite Mission Network). Even though some of the Muridiyya joined the Bible study and nascent church fellowship that Bornman […]

The Doctrine of Discovery is at work in the U.S.A.

Members of Apache Stronghold and the Coalition for Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery hold a prayer gathering.

The Season of Creation is a time when the global Christian family unites in prayer and action to protect the Earth, our home, starting September 1 with the Day of Prayer for Creation and ending with the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of ecology, on October 4. See Prayer for the […]

Honoring Indigenous pathways and challenging the Doctrine of Discovery

The Season of Creation is a time when the global Christian family unites in prayer and action to protect the Earth, our home, starting September 1 with the Day of Prayer for Creation and ending with the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of ecology, on October 4. Download the Mennonite Church […]

Compassionate care to Laos

?Jonah and Memee Yang are mission associates with Mennonite Mission Network. Their ministries in Southeast Asia include: Sister Care seminars for women, a program of Mennonite Women USA Compassionate Care seminars for couples Journey, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary’s (AMBS) missional leadership development program To learn how you and your congregation can support their ministry, click […]

Here with purpose: Gloria Guadarrama

Gloria Guadarrama

Every organization has a purpose; an answer to the deceptively simple question, "Why?" At Mennonite Mission Network, that "why?" is to lead, mobilize and equip the church to participate in holistic witness to Jesus Christ — across the street, all through the marketplaces and around the world. In this Q&A series, Mission Network asks staff […]

Midwives in Chad help to reduce maternal mortality

In this video, Christy Harrison describes the work of midwives at Guinebor Hospital in Chad. As of 2024, Chad has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world with approximately 1,140 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. Women often have to walk several hours to reach a health center, so less than one-fourth […]

Jonah and Memee Yang contextualize the gospel in the Hmong culture

?Jonah and Memee Yang’s ministry grew out of their recommitment to follow God’s call to mend relationships and foster theology in Southeast Asia.  NEWTON, Kansas (Mennonite Mission Network) – Jonah and Memee Yang kept running from their ministry. God kept chasing after them. Today, Jonah and Memee are mission associates with Mennonite Mission Network. They […]

Journeys of hope “all through the night”

A child in a light house

SOOPers Barbara West and Kathy Howell spent six weeks volunteering at Maria Skobtsova House, a sanctuary for refugees, that maintains a prayerful presence in Calais, France. Upon their return, they shared reflections with their home congregation, Corvallis Mennonite Fellowship in Corvallis, Oregon.  Identifying information about Skobtsova House guests has been changed, including their names. We went into this […]

For a new dad, the thought of fatherhood is more mysterious than ever

?In recognition of Father’s Day on June 12, Travis Duerksen, writer and multimedia producer with Mennonite Mission Network, reflects on his experiences with newfound fatherhood. I was privileged to become a father last September. I earned this title through hours of teeth-gritting labor (and months of discomfort). Not of my own, but of another person […]