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Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) shares God's love and compassion for all in the name of Christ by responding to basic human needs and working for peace and justice. MCC envisions communities worldwide in right relationship with God, one another and creation. In 2020, we celebrated the centennial of our ministry. As we enter a second century of service, we reaffirm our Christ-led commitment to compassionately serve and learn from vulnerable people around the world. We continue to answer God’s call, focusing our work in three strategic areas of service. 

  • Increasing the capacity of our partners to help uprooted and vulnerable people
  • Increasing peacebuilding and justice work
  • Caring for God's creation and supporting communities harmed by climate change

In addition to MCC's international work, our provincial offices offer programs here at home, including work with Indigenous peoples, the criminal justice system and refugee sponsorship. Read more about the programs and see what's available near you.

July 14 update: From Intersections, an MCC quarterly publication: As MCC staff from multiple global contexts have reflected together on MCC’s migration work, we began by articulating a biblical and theological
framework to inform our work on migration, organizing that framework into six primary points:
1. MCC believes that God created humankind “in our image, according
to our likeness” (Gen 1:26, NRSV). Migrants bear God’s image: we
encounter God in the face of refugees, asylum seekers and other
migrants.
2. The incarnation of Christ brings dignity and solidarity to the migrant
and displaced. Jesus himself was a migrant in a not only a physical but
also theological sense.
3. We are all temporary residents. We learn about the nature of God and
about ourselves in the migrant experience.
4. We are called to welcome the stranger among us by demonstrating
love and empathy and practicing hospitality.
5. God’s special concern for the poor and oppressed calls MCC to
see, serve alongside and advocate with the most vulnerable people
who face disproportionate risk due to their forced migration and
displacement journeys.
6. We are called to confess and to be renewed concerning ways we have
unfairly benefited from and contributed to systems that bring about
displacement and oppress the migrant.

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