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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
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Seeking Christ
- Education
Cambodia
Jul 2024
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Founding Ottawa Office director Bill Janzen honoured with the Order of Canada
Canada
Jun 2024
News
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Threads – Share the Gifts: Honour the Treaties, shows Indigenous reparations in action.
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Manitoba
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A field trip: growing safer vegetables in Bangladesh
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Food
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Bangladesh
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![Graphic of green leaves with words Tending Tomorrow: Courageous Change for People and Planet](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-06/TendingTomorrow_600x600.jpg.webp?itok=BpOg0Cy0)
Ep 26 - Tending Tomorrow with Leah-Reesor-Keller
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Climate Change
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Ontario
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Podcast/audio
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Threads – Seek program unites young adults in culture and faith in Cambodia
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Manitoba + 1 more
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The Enneagram Prison Project
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Restorative Justice
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Canada + 1 more
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Threads - Connection and kindness, one stitch at a time
Piece it Together Quilt and Craft SaleLocation
Manitoba
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Distributing aid in Myanmar at great risk / "Mr. Khong"
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Disaster response
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Myanmar (Burma)
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Threads - "Now you have not just friends, you have family here."
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Manitoba + 1 more
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Nonviolent resistance: Just peace in Palestine and Israel (Part 2)
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Disaster response
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Palestine and Israel
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Threads - "I feel this is my home. This is my place"
Welcome the Stranger event linkLocation
Manitoba
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![Two story apartment building under construction with a blue crane in front](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-03/sprucelawn%20construction%20beyond%20housing.jpg.webp?itok=22FF2w8F)
Undercurrents - Affordable housing part 2
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Poverty Reduction
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Ontario
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Podcast/audio
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Gaza update: Just peace in Palestine and Israel (Part 1)
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Disaster response
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Palestine and Israel
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Podcast/audio
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