May 2013
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MCC Great Lakes' Sharing With Appalachian People (SWAP) program is a home repair ministry for families in need. Visit groups as they spend a week working with home owners in Harlan, Kentucky to make their homes safe, warm and dry.
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April 2013
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Elizabeth Miller reflects on her work with MCC as an Anabaptist identity and history promoter in Bogotá, Colombia.
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Zenebe Abebe, MCC Great Lakes Executive Director, shares his reflections about building connections with faith communities around the world.
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A small group from First Mennonite Church in Bluffon, Ohio, raised funds for MCC in a unique way.
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Please join MCC in praying for these people and programs.
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An educational storytelling tour focused on gun violence prevention visited schools, churches and small groups in the Chicago and Goshen/Elkhart areas.
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March 2013
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MCC supporters from across the Great Lakes region gathered on February 22-23 at East Goshen Mennonite Church to celebrate the work of MCC around the world and to worship and fellowship together.
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February 2013
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MCC Appalachia is offering a learning tour for interested people to learn about the culture, community and collaboration of MCC with partners in the region.
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January 2013
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Helen Glick has served in many different roles with MCC, which have helped to build her identity as a citizen of the world.
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Zenebe Abebe, MCC Great Lakes Executive Director, shares his reflections about service.
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Please join MCC in praying for these people and programs.
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Kirstin and Daron Showalter, MCC service workers, share about their work with potters in Cambodia.
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October 2012
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Zenebe Abebe, MCC Great Lakes Executive Director, shares his reflections.
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MCC Great Lakes’ program, Sharing With Appalachian People (SWAP), is as much about building relationships as it is making houses warm, safe and dry.
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Volunteers and staff worked together with 80 homeowners in Appalachia this summer to make homes safe, warm and dry. While the repair projects were important, it's the relationships that may be most important.
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September 2012
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In this reflection, MCC Guatemala service worker Tobias Roberts (from Bowling Green, Ky.) emphasizes the importance of encouraging youth to accomplish their dreams.
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Luz Varela spent the summer serving at an urgent care center and local church in Goshen, Indiana, through MCC's Summer Service program.
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August 2012
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A miniature “Sunbonnet Sue” quilt, made from old feedsack fabric, will be auctioned off at the annual Michiana Mennonite Relief Sale in Goshen on September 22 to benefit MCC.
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Living Water Community Church in Chicago welcomes new Bhutanese/Nepali immigrants into their congregation. Through MCC's Church Community Worker program, Amos Shakya has spent the last two years leading a Nepali house church connected with Living Water.
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July 2012
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Annali Murray recently completed an MCC service term with the SALT program in Uganda. She reflects on the events that contributed to her memorable experience.
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A recent learning tour to the Middle East highlighted MCC's Global Family program. The Al-Malath Society in Beit Sahor provides holistic care for young people with developmental disabilities.
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The farm bill up for renewal in congress sets U.S. food and agricultural policies. MCC seeks to bring the voices of our partners around the world into food policy discussions.
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On a recent learning tour to the Middle East, Jorge Vielman visited several schools that are part of MCC's Global Family program. This school works with seeing impaired students.
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June 2012
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Please join Mennonite Central Committee U.S. and Great Lakes on Friday, June 29, for "Walking with the church in the Middle East," a special event at College Mennonite Church in Goshen, beginning at 7 p.m.
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May 2012
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The Michiana Mennonite Relief Sale in Goshen, Indiana, is one of seven MCC relief sales throughout the Great Lakes region.
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