Healing

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.
Peacebuilding
Peacebuilders has been leading workshops on peacebuilding tools in different parts of the country. As we continued this work, we began to sense a deeper need: to reflect more intentionally on what Scripture teaches us about peace. In response, we launched a new course that is currently running virtually, with some in-person sessions as well. Our goal is to help Anabaptist congregations—and others interested in the work of peace—build a biblical theology of peace. Throughout the course, we are using various academic texts alongside Scripture-based reflections.
Mennonite Voluntary Service
Photo by Ali Zolghadr on Unsplash
Mangos remind us to welcome a stranger
By Emily Keefer
Alamosa
Urgent prayer request
Mennonite Christian Hospital set up a medical station at the church in Matai’an Village to provide care for the disaster-affected residents.
Mennonite Voluntary Service
Hannah Lehman, Lleyton Stutzman and Juan Witmer are participants in the 2025-26 Tucson, Arizona, Mennonite Voluntary Service unit.
Emily Keefer and her grandmother, Esther. Photo provided.
Service Adventure
Northern lights in Alaska
Mending Wings
Mending Wings youth dance their prayers. Photographer: Stephanie Weaver.
Mending Wings helps Yakama People fly again
By Dewy Bill
United States
Dewy Bill's life story
Dewy Bill, third from left, leads the Mending Wings singers and drummers. Photographer: Sarah Augustine.
Update from Côte d'Ivoire
Toni and Matthew Krabill
South Africa Pilgrimage
The congregation at Brethren in Christ Church, Hillbrow. Photo by Jennifer Murch.
Unlearning
By Jennifer Murch
South Africa