Our Stories | Mennonite Central Committee

Meet the communities whose perspectives and experiences shape MCC’s work.

Hear how they’re adapting and innovating in the face of poverty, conflict and injustice.

See how we’re creating a brighter future, together.

A woman and man smiling at a food distribution in Zimbabwe.

703 stories

Group of young people standing around a Chicago sign

Stepping out in faith

Peace

Ohio

04/15/2025

Story

Stepping out in faith

Man sitting at a desk

IVEP shaped my vocational journey

Peace

Tanzania + 1 more

04/15/2025

Story

IVEP shaped my vocational journey

Prison inmates sit at tables listening to someone speak

MCC U.S. and Canada release additional funding to support partners affected by government cuts

Canada

04/14/2025

Story

MCC U.S. and Canada release additional funding to support partners affected by government cuts

Seed participant Lilibeth Guzmán Macea leads a lesson on Jesus' teaching on ethics and Dirk Willems' compassion for his enemy at Central Mennonite Church of Carchà in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.

On serving and seeing God everywhere

Guatemala

04/11/2025

Story

On serving and seeing God everywhere

Family picture from a birthday party.

Borderless love of God

Ohio

04/11/2025

Story

Borderless love of God

June 2021 distribution of emergency relief items, including maize flour, beans, vegetable oil, salt, blankets, pots, plates and cups, to families in the Buhene and Bugeregere communities in Goma, Demo

MCC Canada awarded $4.7 million grant for humanitarian assistance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Food

Democratic Republic of the Congo

04/10/2025

News

MCC Canada awarded $4.7 million grant for humanitarian assistance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

White daisies with a bee on one of the flower's yellow center

Peacemaking through native plants

Climate Change

Pennsylvania

04/10/2025

Story

Peacemaking through native plants

Alecia Weber representing MCC with style at the 2025 Great Winter Warmup at the MCC Hub in New Hamburg.

Three keys to navigating the election with love

Peace

Canada

04/08/2025

Perspectives and Viewpoints

Three keys to navigating the election with love

Close-up of the hands of a Guatemalan woman holding peppers.

Threads – Climate Resilience in Guatemala Starts with Choice

Climate Action for Peace

Climate Change

Manitoba + 1 more

04/03/2025

Podcast/audio

Threads – Climate Resilience in Guatemala Starts with Choice

woman standing with comforter over her shoulders

Comforters keep refugee children, elderly people warm on cold Zambian nights

Disaster response

Zambia + 1 more

04/03/2025

Story

Comforters keep refugee children, elderly people warm on cold Zambian nights

woman with back to camera looking through a space where a wall used to be at the broken building, rubble around her at rubble

Family in Gaza returns home only to be forced out again

Disaster response

Palestine and Israel

04/01/2025

Story

Family in Gaza returns home only to be forced out again

A photo of dawn over mountains in Korea, there is a layer of fog at the mountaintops and soft orange and yellow light as the sun peeks through.

On Being People of the Dawn

New York

03/20/2025

Story

On Being People of the Dawn

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