After the trauma of displacement, refugees and asylum seekers arrive in the United States with the hope of finding a safe place for themselves and their children to call home. Local communities have the opportunity to offer these families a soft place to land through community sponsorship.  

Community sponsorship is when a church or group of churches come together to help an asylum seeker or refugee family adjust to life in the United States. This group of welcomers provides help with housing, transportation, connections to community services and, most importantly, friendship, understanding and quality time.  

Through welcoming, congregations can gain a greater sense of community, extend and receive hospitality and develop a deeper understanding of God's love for all people. MCC will provide resources, education and support as congregations welcome a family together.  

To learn more, contact MCC’s Newcomer Connections Coordinator at welcome@mcc.org!

Please fill out this form to indicate your interest in learning about and welcoming refugees and asylum seekers in your community!

Christ’s invitation to live as peacemakers calls the church to embody the ministry of reconciliation that brings about God’s Shalom vision. MCC peace education provides resources and speakers to address a Biblically-rooted peace theology and encourage social justice projects as a response to Jesus’ call to be peacemakers.  

Our peacebuilding focus areas include:

• Conflict transformation training
• Peace education for young people
• Gun violence prevention
• Working against militarism

Learn more about the adult Sunday school curriculum, Peaceful Practices: A guide to healthy communication in conflict.

In an ever-present dominant culture of violence, hatred and widespread systems of supremacy that determine who is worthy of belonging and who is labeled as “other,” we cannot take lightly the full breadth and responsibility of what it means to choose and embody God’s love in our daily lives.

Our program on racial equity and advocacy provides training and support for constituent groups and churches to identify and resist oppressive systems of racism and colonization as well as to advocate for an end to mass incarceration. Groups can learn about historic patterns of injustice and its prevailing legacies and promote healing within organizations, communities and homes.

Through training initiatives and resources, we seek to be transformed and reconciled through Christ.

Our racial justice focus areas include:

• The Doctrine of Discovery education
• Mass Incarceration education

Learn more about our adult Sunday School curriculum, Embracing Beloved Community.

In order to do our work of relief, development and peace, it’s important that MCC addresses policies that contribute to poverty and injustice. Advocacy is how we do that.

Some of our advocacy work includes:

• Analyzing policies from an Anabaptist perspective
• Meeting with legislators and diplomats
• Petitions and letter-writing campaigns
• Praying for government officials

Visit our Advocacy page to learn more.