Mennonite Media is a department of Mennonite Mission Network, the mission agency of the Mennonite Church USA.
The purpose of Mennonite Media is to provide electronic and public media which invite individuals to faith and challenge the church to faithfulness.
The vision of Mennonite Media strives to introduce Anabaptist Christian perspectives into society's marketplace of ideas. Using electronic and public media, we seek to challenge society on contemporary issues; prompt people to consider the way of Jesus; and resource the church to participate in holistic witness.
Mennonite Media produces/has produced:
A documentary for ABC TV airing Dec., 2001
Public service radio and TV spots, most recently on issues like peacemaking, racism, and violence
Educational videos for discussion in church and school for children, youth, and adults
Another Way newspaper column syndicated by Globe Syndicate
Mennonite Men, an organization of the Mennonite Church, is a jointly owned partnership of Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada. Mennonite Men, formerly an organization of the General Conference Mennonite Church, resources men's groups in local Congregations, and promotes and develops men's resources. On a Church wide basis Mennonite Men sponsors the JoinHands Mennonite Church Building Program, develops and provides resources for men's groups, and provides a clearing house for men's interests in congregations and area conferences.
Mennonite Men is an organization that aims to provide an Anabaptist perspective on manhood that speaks to current issues. Local Mennonite Men groups exist or emerge for service projects, Bible study, prayer, mutual support, and study of Christian male identity. The Mennonite Men office in Newton, Kansas, suggests resources and shares information between groups.
A priority for Mennonite Men is to provide church building grants to newer congregations through its JoinHands Mennonite Church Building Program. Since the beginning of the JoinHands program in 1985, 34 churches in Canada, the United States, and overseas have received church building grants totaling $887,600. Several hundred donors give an average of $200 per year for this work. These grants contribute to a partnership of the local church and area Mennonite Conferences. By drawing down their indebtedness, congregations are freed up for more effective outreach in their local and wider communities. The JoinHands Mennonite Church Building Program approach has now encouraged men to volunteer their skills and time helping to construct new meetinghouses.
The mission of Mennonite Women USA is to minister to the women of Mennonite Church USA by resourcing women’s groups and individual women as we:
Nurture our life in Christ
Study the Bible,
Utilize our gifts,
Hear each other, and
Engage in mission and service.
Mennonite Women USA's vision is to promote women-to-women links locally and globally, through mission and fellowship within our diverse church, embracing women of many backgrounds, and encouraging mutual support, discussion, partnership, and worship.
Third Way Café is a web site with information on Mennonites and current issues, and is produced by Mennonite Media, on behalf of the Mennonite Churches of the U.S. and Canada, under the sponsorship of Mennonite Mission Network.
Third Way Café offers an Anabaptist-Christian perspective on life:
looking at community, world and personal issues.
Third Way Café also offers personal
responses to questions about Mennonites and numerous free daily or
weekly e-mail subscriptions.
Anabaptist Disabilities Network (ADNet) is emerging out of a vision of family members, friends, and persons with disabilities, including mental illness, to establish a permanent national resource and support network for Mennonites and related groups.
The mission of ADNet is to provide encouragement and resources to congregations, families, and persons with disabilities as they identify and embrace their God-given gifts and abilities in ministry to each other and to the larger church.
Mennonite
Central Committee (MCC) is a relief, service, and peace agency of the
North American Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches.
The
MCC Mission Statement reflects the biblical call to care for the hungry
and the thirsty, the stranger and the naked, the sick and those in
prison (Matthew 25:35-36).
Latest News:
MCC explores response to crisis in Darfur, Sudan
June
10, 2004 - As reports of massive suffering and slaughter continue to
emerge from the Darfur region of western Sudan, MCC is exploring
options for assistance to refugees fleeing into neighboring Chad.
MCC will likely respond with aid in Chad, where some 120,000 to 160,000 people from Darfur have taken refuge. MCC worker Madjibe Levy is currently in this region of Chad, meeting with partner organizations that may distribute the aid.
Mennonite Disaster Service is a channel through which various constituencies of the Anabaptist church can respond to those affected by disasters in North America. While our main focus is on clean up, repair and rebuilding homes, this activity becomes a means of touching lives and helping people regain faith and wholeness.
“Creating loving communities for persons with developmental disabilities and their families”
Sunshine Inc. of Northwest Ohio is a Mennonite-affiliated, non-profit organization serving people with mental retardation and other development disabilities and their families.
