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Stories bring our work to life.
These featured stories highlight partners and communities that inspire, inform and drive meaningful change across the globe.
Lean in and read personal accounts of resilience and hope.
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Threads – From Winnipeg to Zambia: Connecting Across Continents with Compassion
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Sep 2024
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Doctrines & Discoveries: Mistasinīy | Buffalo Child Stone
- Indigenous Neighbors
Saskatchewan
Aug 2024
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![Women sitting in a community building](/sites/default/files/2024-08/Websitethumbnail.jpg)
The lost story of Dr. Dismukes - Black history in Appalachia
Listen now- Justice and Equity
United States + 1 more
Aug 2024
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Celebrating decades of partnership and impact
Ontario
Aug 2024
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Threads – Faith and Farming Bring Communities Together to End Hunger
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Aug 2024
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"Creating an ecosystem of encounter"
- Food,
- Climate Change
Puerto Rico
Aug 2024
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![A selfie photo of a group of volunteers from the Toronto Chinese Mennonite Church](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-03/SOOP%20story%20header.jpg.webp?itok=UowvbvK9)
"Letting the light shine onto others"
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United States + 2 more
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![Odhiambo puts his skills to use on the construction of a house in Iowa, Louisiana, that was badly damaged during hurricanes Delta and Laura. He has worked on several different houses in areas including Jennings, Welsh and Iowa, Louisiana.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/8a728401-3bf0-4682-babf-e9442b588f4a.jpg.webp?itok=TNVJ7Ni0)
Building homes, breaking boundaries
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Disaster response
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Louisiana + 1 more
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![Dorcus Sibanda checks in guests at Skills Auction, a fundraising event for The Conflict Center.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-02/9ba63627-241d-4cf2-b48b-16af6a56b750.jpg.webp?itok=WT6eBfgo)
Our journey with Dorcus
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Justice and Equity
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Colorado
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![Jason Schmidt (IVEP Supervisor 2022-23) at his farm, Grazing Plains Farm, in Whitewater, Kansas.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-11/jason.jpg.webp?itok=6x8yk7DP)
Cultivating friendship and community
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Food
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Kansas
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![A woman smiling in an MCC thrift shop](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/graber3.jpg.webp?itok=JPQWs2nx)
Still thrifty at 100
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South Dakota
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'A bike can change somebody’s life'
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Kansas
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![A young girl pushes cans down a wooden conveyer](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/canning_2_year_old.jpg.webp?itok=K2CPYuev)
See what a day of canning meat is like!
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Disaster response
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United States + 1 more
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