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![Two people sit facing each other, mirroring body language of hands pressed together in a Nepalese greeting.](/sites/default/files/resource-space/377874774_712420904260885_745544933749777228_n.jpg)
A journey of service with Mennonite Central Committee
United States + 1 more
Jul 2024
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Your impact in Ontario - Summer 2024
Ontario
Jul 2024
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"Put a little love in your yard"
- Peace
North Carolina
Jul 2024
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![Ko’ona Saber, Kerry Saner-Harvey and Jonathan Neufeld sitting together on a bench](/sites/default/files/2024-07/20240614%20-%20Threads%20Healing%20Forest.jpg)
Threads – Share the Gifts: Honour the Treaties, shows Indigenous reparations in action.
Share the Gifts: Honour the Treaties websiteManitoba
Jul 2024
Podcast/audio
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Seeking Christ
- Education
Cambodia
Jul 2024
Story
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![Three men are engaged in a conversation](/sites/default/files/2024-06/BillJanzen2_1.jpg)
Founding Ottawa Office director Bill Janzen honoured with the Order of Canada
Canada
Jun 2024
News
newspaper
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![A tall tree on a foggy day in Colombia](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/RS81914_CVAN4743-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=kz4Qrp8D)
Peace is more than a wish through grace
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Peace
Location
Canada + 1 more
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Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![Children running onto a makeshift pitch in a school yard in Colombia.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/RS118486_Photo%205-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=XDXgFkbB)
Growing in mind, body and spirit
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Education
Location
Colombia + 5 more
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Story
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![A man stands between two trays of cacao seeds](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs102919_colombia_-_choco-_day_7_-81-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=3I8y3I7G)
Paix et chocolat
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Peace, Food
Location
Colombia
Date
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![A man stands between two trays of cacao seeds](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/rs102919_colombia_-_choco-_day_7_-81-lpr.jpg.webp?itok=3I8y3I7G)
Peace and chocolate
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Peace, Food
Location
Colombia
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Story
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![Hands holding grain stocks](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/a_new_way_to_grow_cover_photo.jpg.webp?itok=TXP3Wz_9)
A new way to grow
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Food
Location
India + 5 more
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Publication
book
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![A yellow book cover that reads, "What is God's Kingdom and what does citizenship look like. Cesar Garcia](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-07/godskingdom1.jpg.webp?itok=c5u-h4Mb)
Author Q&A with César García
Location
United States + 1 more
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Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![In 2010, Mampuján community leader Juana Alicia Ruíz Hernández displays a partially completed 10-year historic quilt project in Colombia celebrating the Mampuján community's past before they were disp](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/COL10_01_0034.JPG.webp?itok=M4wg4W_t)
A journey of bold listening
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Peace, Justice and Equity
Location
Colombia
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Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A city landscape with mountains in the distance](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/view_from_window2.jpg.webp?itok=EnQZ5Bd5)
The view from my window
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Health
Location
Lebanon + 6 more
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Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![A close up of loaves of bread](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-08/rs27010_bih20131105_peacebuilding_ms0060-lpr_0_2.jpg.webp?itok=EwIIGT_L)
'Bread, in God's name, bread'
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Food, Disaster response
Location
Ukraine + 8 more
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![Taslima Khatun at her floating garden with plants growing in a hanging garden along the shore. She can harvest all year round and her garden is safe from floods. Project implemented by MPUS and funded by MCC. Bogura, Bangladesh.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-07/RS133425_120_Bangladesh_Fairpicture_408_lpr.jpg.webp?itok=nZF1TVxV)
Food impact report - Summer 2024
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Food
Location
Bangladesh + 1 more
Media Type
Impact report
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