MCC Update

MCC Update

Join a compassionate community of Manitobans helping to end hunger! Sponsor an acre of Manitoba farmland through Grow Hope to provide food and agricultural training for people in places like India and Haiti. Your gift will multiple with every $1 growing to as much as $5! Visit mccmb.ca/growhope to learn more and join us.

Celebrate your Mennonite heritage on a cross-Canada train tour! July 6-25, 2023, join the three-part Russlaender 100 Tour to re-enact the historic migration of 21,000 Mennonites from Russia to Canada, 1923-1930. Remember your ancestors’ faith and challenges. In gratitude for the welcome Mennonites received in Canada, tour participants are invited to support three MCC programs. Learn more at tourmagination.com/russlaender-100

A spring MCC golf yard sale will be held on May 13 and 14 at 7 Mercury Bay, Winnipeg. You are invited to donate golf clubs or other golf-related items that you no longer need. Donations may be dropped off at the Selkirk MCC Thrift Shop, Sargent MCC Thrift Shop or at 7 Mercury Bay. If you have questions call Ron or Connie Loeppky at 204-261-4949 or 204-296-4949. All proceeds will support the work of MCC.

We’re hiring! MCC Canada has position openings in finance, administration and IT. Visit mccmb.ca/openings for more information and to apply.

“We need that hope:” A resurrection story

Rick Cober Bauman, executive director of MCC Canada, shares an Easter greeting. Watch Rick’s two-minute message about hope in this season.

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“I understood that we are refugees now”

For years Anna, an MCC staff person, supported people who were displaced from the fighting in eastern Ukraine. Now she is one of those people. In this episode, she shares a bit of what it was like to pack up and leave her home behind. Listen to Anna’s story.