Are you among the 20,000 people who have served with MCC since it was formed? If so, we hope you feel like you are coming home as you explore this page. Whether you served internationally or in Canada or the U.S., we invite you to stay in touch with MCC and with other alumni:

You and others who have served with MCC are the foundation of today's continuing work in the name of Christ. Thank you!

Dwight Moody Wiebe Scholarship 

This fund is available to any former MCC service workers who are enrolled in a graduate program. Download the application form, and submit by September 30th to be eligible for the upcoming academic year. 

Upcoming MCC re-entry retreats

Anyone who has completed at least a one-year term with MCC and has returned within the past two years is eligible to participate. Send an email to alumni@mcc.org for more information or to register.  

January 24-27, 2019 Mount Hermon Conference Center, Mount Hermon, California

August 1-4, 2019 Black Rock Retreat Center, near Lancaster, Pennsylvania (co-sponsored with Mennonite Mission Network, Eastern Mennonite Missions and Virginia Mennonite Missions for people returning from international assignments only)

Upcoming MCC alumni reunions

MCC encourages alumni reunions. You are welcome to hold reunions at the MCC Welcoming Place in 2020, during MCC’s centennial year. For more information, to add a reunion to this list, or to update reunion information, contact Tina Mast Burnett at: alumni@mcc.org; 717-859-1151 or 888-563-4676.

 

Akron Service Unit, 1976-86 – September 4-7, 2020, at MCC Welcoming Place, Akron, Pennsylvania. Host: Veg Weber. Email: rossveg@gmail.com

Join our Akron Service Unit Alumni Group.

 

Akron Service Unit, 1986-96 – May 22-26, 2020, at MCC Welcoming Place, Akron, Pennsylvania. Host: Char Cober. Email: charcober@mcco.ca

Join our Akron Service Unit Alumni Group.

 

Burkina Faso – October 9-12, 2020, at MCC Welcoming Place, Akron, Pennsylvania. Hosts: Paul Brallier, Karen Metzler. Email: pabrallier@gmail.com

Join our MCC Burkina Faso Alumni Group. 

 

Cambodia – May 28-31, 2021. 2021 is the 40th anniversary of the MCC Cambodia program. Hosts: Marilyn Brockmueller (1997-2000), msb@gwtc.net, and Grace Hercyk (2010-2013) gracehercyk@gmail.com

 

DR Congo – October 2-4, 2020, at MCC Welcoming Place, Akron, Pennsylvania. Hosts: Ray and Margaret Brubacher, Gloria and Howard Good, Judy and Paul Classen, Ken and Marilyn Langeman (and others). Email: alumni@mcc.org

Join our MCC DR Congo Alumni Group.

 

Ethiopia – August 21-23, 2020, at MCC Welcoming Place, Akron Pennsylvania. Hosts: Cath and Peter Woolner. Email: cathwoolner@gmail.com

Join our MCC Ethiopia Alumni Group. 

 

Greece – April 29-May 2, 2020, at Blue Gate Garden Inn, Shipshewana, Indiana. Hosts: Virgil Claassen, David Gerber. Email: vclaassen62@gmail.com; davidgerber40@gmail.com

 

Honduras – 2020 (date to be decided), at MCC Welcoming Place, Akron, Pennsylvania. Host: Luke Schrock-Hurst. Email: LukeSchrockHurst@mcc.org

Join our MCC Honduras Alumni Group. 

 

India – April or May, 2020, at MCC Welcoming Place, Akron, Pennsylvania.  Host: Bert Lobe. Email: bertlobe@gmail.com

 

Indonesia –July 23-26, 2020, Maranatha Retreat Center, Black Rock Camp, Quarryville, Pennsylvania.   Hosts: Janice and Mark Bauman, msbauman57@gmail.com; and John & Elisabeth Murphy,   jbmurphy5@gmail.com

Join our MCC Indonesia Alumni Group.

 

Peru, MCC earthquake response –June 26-28, 2020, in Huarmey, Peru. 2020 will be the 50th anniversary of the devastating May 31, 1970, earthquake in Peru.  A reunion is being planned for the Church World Service earthquake response program workers, including MCC volunteers, in Huarmey. Side trips are encouraged!  E-mail Don Kurtz for more information:  donkurtz@hotmail.com.

 

Salzburg Pax reunion – September 24-27, 2020, at MCC Welcoming Place, Akron, Pennsylvania. Hosts: Lowell and Verna Bender, Dick Boshart, Ervie and Mary Glick. Email: acrsbosh@hotmail.com; erviemary@gmail.com; lowellvernabender@gmail.com

 

South Korea – June 19-21, 2020. Location to be confirmed in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Host: Lyle Troyer. Email: lyletroyer@gmail.com

 

Southern Africa (Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe) – August 28-30, 2020, at MCC Welcoming Place, Akron, Pennsylvania. Hosts: Bob Herr and Judy Zimmerman Herr. Email: alumni@mcc.org

 

Vietnam – Currently exploring a gathering for summer of 2020. Potential hosts: Earl Martin and Pat Hostetter Martin. Email: patearl@aol.com. 

Recent reunions

Bangladesh – Met July 5-8, 2019, at Crieff Hills Retreat and Conference Centre, west of Toronto, Ontario. Hosts: Tom and Bette-Ann Bruulsema, Ilene and Karl Bergen, Nora Marten and Steve McInnes. Email: betteann@rogers.com.

 

Philippines – Met August 2-4, 2019, near Athens, Ohio. Hosts: Earl Martin and Pat Hostetter Martin, Patty Wagner. Email: patearl@aol.com.