There are no barriers in God
Ayda Maria Villalobos is 21 years old, from La Mesa, Cundinamarca, Colombia, currently serving with IVEP at Artisan's Hope in Harrisonburg, VA. This is copy of the testimony she recently shared at MCC ...
Hurricane Matthew and Cholera: A Race Against Time
Ted Oswald is a policy analyst and advocacy coordinator for MCC Haiti. This article was originally published on the MCC Haiti blog.
Over the coming weeks we will share about MCC’s developing response for H...
Dear Child, Yet Within the Womb
Derrick Charles and Rebekah Good Charles are the representatives for MCC Nicaragua. They are from the United States and are expecting the birth of their third child, in Nicaragua. Derrick wrote this song for th...
Thinking Collectively: The Ixil University and Education for Liberation
Nancy Sabas is the former MCC Guatemala Connecting Peoples Coordinator. She currently works in Colombia.
A few weeks ago, I visited the Ixil region of Guatemala’s northern alitiplano, during my last learnin...
Mining & Mennonites: The Prophetic Role of the Church in Ibagué
José Antonio Vaca Bello is married and has two daughters. He has been a member of the Mennonite Church for more than 35 years and has carried out different responsibilities within the church at a local and nat...
Peace in the Street and the Time of Yellow Butterflies
Anna Vogt is the Regional Advocacy and Context Analyst. This post was originally published on her personal blog.
The Justapaz office is adorned with yellow butterflies. On cubicle dividers, windows, walls a...
A Letter from the Future
Vibrant and active young people define the LACA region. From photographing beauty in the midst of structural injustice to show Haiti on its own terms, to the fight for conscientious objection in Nicaragua, to l...
Moving Beyond Yes or No: The Search for Prodigal Peace in Colombia
Bonnie Klassen is the Area Director for South America and Mexico. She lives in Bogota, Colombia.
I still remember when the Caguan Peace Talks between the Colombian Government and the Revolutionary Armed For...
The Way is Peace
Andrew Claassen in the Connecting Peoples Coordinator for MCC Nicaragua.
On July 19, 1979, Nicaraguans awoke to triumph. Having fled the country two days earlier, Anastasio Somoza, the last of a US backed d...
Parenting and Pain
Christopher Fretz works with MCC Mexico in San Cristobal. This article was originally published on his personal blog.
Today is October 2. As a parent, this date will always remind me of the beauty and pain ...