Partnership

Stories from 2025
During a South Africa Just Peace Pilgrimage, the group met every day for reflections and Bible studies. Photo provided.
Favorite stories of service from 2025
By Zachary Headings
South Africa
Each year, the San Francisco MVS unit is invited to gather together and craft comforters for themselves. Karen Kreider Yoder, a member of the unit's host congregation, First Mennonite Church of San Francisco, hosts the group at her home for this annual tradition. At the end of the day, each participant takes home their own cozy comforter to use during their service term and beyond! Left to right: Ana Neufeld Weaver, Keyan Krabill, Emmi Scott and Bella Kephart. Photo by Karen Kreider Yoder.
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.
MVS
While some units have access to a vehicle, every group gets well accustomed to local public transportation and biking as means of getting around. The 2023-24 MVS Tucson unit on a weekend biking outing around the city. Left to right: Hannah Nuest, Deborah Yoder, Magdalena Wenger, Nely Cotuc, and Ally Weaver. Photo by Hanna Nuest.
50 years of MVS
First Mennonite Church of San Francisco
Benin partnership
Cindy Voth, Rod Hollinger-Janzen, Jocelyne Ahoga, Germain Dossou and Rachel Stoltzfus enjoy time together during the Benin Bible Institute (BBI) representatives’ visit to Waterford Mennonite Church (WMC) in 2024. Voth is lead pastor at WMC. Ahoga and Dossou are BBI representatives. Hollinger-Janzen and Stoltzfus are on WMC’s partnership planning committee. Photo provided.
Retirement
At a Sister Care seminar in 2017, Linda Shelly shares with Cielo Arguello the inclusion of her ministry in Iquitos, Peru, in the Mennonite Mis­sion Network prayer directory. Photo by Rhoda Keener.
Follow Jesus 25
From left, Oscar Siwali, director of Southern African Development and Reconstruction Agency, and ​​Sibonokuhle Ncube, Co-Regional Director for Africa and Europe.
Follow Jesus 25
Wil LaVeist, Mennonite Mission Network senior executive of advancement, presented the seminar “Afrocentric Anabaptists: Black Experiences in the Mennonite Church” during Follow Jesus 25.