Peace and justice

Africa overview
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Update from Côte d'Ivoire
Toni and Matthew Krabill
MVS
Joanna Lawrence Shenk (far right), with the 2024-25 San Francisco MVS participants: Conrad Liechty, Sav Roth Walter and Ana Esperanza Neufeld Weaver. Photo by Milo Jones.
MVS = community commitment
By Travis Duerksen
United States
Here with Purpose webinar series
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Just Peace Pilgrimage
Pahto, a sacred mountain at the center of Yakama cosmology. Photographer: Bruce Kuhns.
Learning to walk Creator’s good road  
By Lynda Hollinger-Janzen and Janet Shoemaker
Washington
The participants in Chapter 2 of the Christ at the Borders Just Peace Pilgrimage. Front row (left to right): Weldon Martens, Arloa Bontrager (Mission Network’s regional director for North America, short-term service), Rachel Givens. Second row (left to right): Shelby Rudy, Marlinda Beachy, Barbara Thurma, Joseph Givens. Back row: Lane Miller (Mission Network’s regional director for Africa and Europe), Matthew Yoder.
The 2013-14 MVS Alamosa unit from left: Anna Woelk, Emma Regier, Laurel Woodward, Heather Driedger and Roxanne Reimer. Photo provided.
Prayer Request
Youth from Portoviejo, Pacoche, Montecristi and Manta, representing Iglesia Evangélica Menonita Ecuadoriana (conference most impacted by the violence), recently participated in a 10-day discipleship workshop at La Paz Mennonite Church in Manta, A day of peacebuilding training was led by four members of the peacebuilding team. Front: Silvia Guaman (middle) and Patricia Abarca (far right), and back: Peter Wigginton (far left) and José Giler (far right). Photo provided.
Just Peace Pilgrimages
Andrew Suderman (left) and Joani Miller (right) give their presentation on Just Peace Pilgrimages at Pastors and Leaders Conference on February 19. Photo by Sara (née Gurulé) Peachey.
Pilgrimages are a journey of lament and authentic hope
By Joani Miller and Andrew Suderman
South Africa Pilgrimage
District Six location
Urgent humanitarian crisis
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