Pennsylvania
Story
… “WHY?” “HAVE YOU NOT VOLUNTEERED ENOUGH?” These were common questions I got when I was about to leave my country … I was volunteering. They were a partner organization to my place of service. I kept all the information in my heart but …
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… 2 and 4 holes; black or white; size 12–25 mm (½–1 in); place loose buttons in a resealable plastic bag) Sew-on snaps … 1,332 sewing kits to Malawi, Ukraine and Zambia. … In many places where MCC works, sewing skills mean new possibilities …
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… email newsletter In Touch each month and MCC's magazine A Common Place three times a year to keep you updated on the impact …
Justice and Equity
British Columbia
Landing page
… without discrimination. … You're giving women a safe place to heal after experiencing intimate partner violence. … …
United States
Story
… at is a sense of globalism, that earth itself is shared common ground. At the same time, the UN is not a church or … we aren’t going to accomplish that by appealing to a common religious understanding about the sacredness of water. …
United States, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Story
… cry speak powerfully to our situation in Africa and many places across the world. Our pastors and church leaders may … type of automatic obedience to political authority that is common in some of our churches simply had no place in his ministry. The lesson of Jeremiah is that if …
Justice and Equity
Colombia
Story
… from the one that got us into the problem in the first place. How can everyone be invited into restoration and … everything else, but that similar emotion is the start of common ground. Practice different ways of approaching …
Peace
Manitoba
Story
… have any shorts that fit." That statement is an all-too-common phrase for my context these days. My kids just keep … experienced. Kristine Heinrichs (04:57): It's also a place that sort of requires the understanding that it's been …
Water
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Palestine and Israel
Story
… provokes diseases in children.” This situation is all too common for people in Kikwit and beyond, where conflict in … like Delphin. “When they settled the borehole at that place, this really strengthened us so that our children are …
Education, Migration and Refugees
Egypt
Story
… MCC education coordinator. … "It provides a safe place for children to begin healing from their trauma and … about her in Hello, the children's page in Winter 2022 A Common Place. Refuge Egypt photo/Monica Mehaffey … 95 … 25 … …
Climate Change
Pennsylvania
Story
… visitor to the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Welcoming Place walks past where I am working, and immediately I become … break the silence: “The plantings in the Welcoming Place remind me of my home country.” “The Welcoming Place … our political boundaries. The earth as shared gives us a common interest with all of humanity. We are all in this …