Memories of Trauma

Annalee Giesbrecht is the MCC Haiti Advocacy and Communications Co-ordinator. Read more about MCC's work in Haiti at haitimcc.org. At 3 p.m., after a full day in the waiting room of Haiti’s central tax offic...

A Life in Service of Others

Maggie Mulhern, from Louisville, Colorado and the First Presbyterian Church in Boulder, Colorado, served in Oruro, Bolivia with the Center of Ecology and Andean Peoples (CEPA) as part of the Seed II program wit...

La Posada

See MCC Washington's reflections on La Posada and the Migrant Caravan here.   Elena Huegel is an EMU graduate working in Chiapas with the Instituto de Estudios e Investigación Intercultural, A.C. (IN...

Nica Food Diaries Part 2: The Nacatamal

Julie Aeschliman is the Education Program Coordinator for MCC Nicaragua. Nacatamales are a bit of a mystery to me.  Unlike tamales found in other parts of Mesoamerica, nacatamales are uniquely Nicaraguan, ma...

Connecting Honduras and Working for Peace

Jill Steinmetz is currently serving as a Digital Media Specialist with MCC's SALT program in Honduras. Sweet bread and hot coffee fueled discussions of peace and justice at a faith-based Partner Gathering in...

Don’t Ever Give Up!

In the coming months, MCC LACA is republishing stories from the Life Stories project produced by seeders from the MCC Bolivia program. The Life Stories project is an attempt to show how the reflective peacebuil...