Invest in a brighter future for people like Augustine Bidali in Uganda. With a sewing machine and training in tailoring, Bidali, a refugee from South Sudan, can build a better life for himself and his three younger brothers. $195 provides a sewing machine. Now there’s a Christmas gift that keeps on giving!
 
MCC - Relief, development, and peace in the name of Christ!
https://mcccanada.ca/christmas#! 

Help meet people's basic needs around the world with the purchase of an eco-friendly MCC Thrift Christmas Giving ornament! Proceeds from these gifts will provide fruit trees and chickens as a source of income and nutrition and clean water in homes. Plus, these ornaments are made form seed paper. Plant it, water it and watch it grow into beautiful wildflowers. Available at your local thrift shop while supplies last.
 
MCC: Relief, development, and peace in the name of Christ
https://mccthriftontario.com/

For third consecutive year, MCC Canada named top 10 international impact and top 100 rated charity!
https://mcccanada.ca/.../mcc-canada-named-top-10-charity...
My husband and I have the privilege of volunteering for the Mennonite Central Committee by working at the MCC Thrift Store on Grantham. And of supporting financially some projects that MCC partners with.
My favourite is https://mcc.org/.../mcc-democratic-peoples-republic-korea
AND I'm thrilled that World Vision is in the top 10 too. WV started in Korea and one of their projects was rescuing orphaned children - especially "mixed race" children. Here is Stephane's story. I heard her story on the radio in about 2005.
http://www.overseasoutreach.com/2018/09/388/

At least it is at the MCC Thrift Store (Christian Benefit Shop.) Their holiday decor is looking amazing this year! If you’re looking to expand your Christmas decorations or find a novel seasonal gift, consider shopping at MCC Thrift instead of going out and buying something new. You’ll be helping to care for our environment and you’ll find some cheerful deals!
 
MCC Thrift is a non-profit thrift shop. All proceeds support Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in local and global relief, development, and peace projects. Proceeds from MCC Thrift fund programs here in Ontario, Canada and globally.
 
https://mccthriftontario.com/ - Where Every Purchase Is A Gift To The World!

CHICKENS! An eggs-cellent gift, chickens provide a ready source of eggs and meat and can boost earnings for families like Josephine Mwikali Mutinda's in Kenya. $13 provides a brood of chickens.
 
This year, when you purchase a brood of chicks, a group of generous MCC donors will match your donation up to a total of $33,000. That means more people in need around the world will be able to earn a living because of your gift. That's just good egg-onomics!
https://donate.mcccanada.ca/cause/chickens
 
MCC - Relief, development, and peace in the name of Christ!

Once upon a real time, in a small village in rural Uganda, a pig came to live on the farm of Mary Ilero and her husband, Julius Egadu. Mary, who was the pig’s primary caregiver, named her Friend. Mary and husband Julius needed a friend. The didn’t have enough money to feed and educate their three children. Julius worked in construction, but there wasn’t enough work. They hoped Friend would help them, but they had no idea how much.
 
Friend gave birth to nine piglets in 2017. Mary knew how to keep Friend and her piglets healthy because trainers from MCC partner Action for Peace and Development (APED) taught her and Julius how to feed them and medicate them before APED gave them the pig. Mary sold each of the piglets for about $21, using the proceeds to buy a cow that she named Patience. Patience had a calf in 2018 and began producing milk that Mary’s children can drink and that Mary can use to make yogurt, cheese, and butter. She kept the calf so that it, too, could eventually produce, but she could sell it for about $160 as a yearling and about $266 as an adult if needed.
 
Read the rest of the story at https://mcccanada.ca/stories/pig-story

Before the fighting escalated in Ukraine this year, Nadiya O.* and her husband lived near the city of Uman, Ukraine. Together they grew a vegetable garden and kept bees, selling their honey to make some extra cash. But shortly after the conflict worsened, her husband died from a heart attack.
 
Then Russian military bombing destroyed their home, burning most of the beehives they had tended together to ash. The ones that remain still stand, empty and quiet. An unexploded rocket lies buried in what used to be their garden, among the rosebushes. In Ukrainian, the name Nadiya means hope, but her situation left little to be hopeful for.
 
But a measure of hope found its way to Nadiya O. when a container full of MCC canned meat, comforters and other relief items was distributed through MCC partner Uman Help Centre. The container that arrived in Uman was one of five shipped to Ukraine by MCC, each loaded with essential relief items including relief kits, hygiene kits, infant care kits, comforters and canned meat.
 
MCC - Relief, development, and peace in the name of Christ!
https://mcccanada.ca/stories/rockets-rosebushes-relief

You can share God’s love with children in Syria. Fleeing home in the midst of war means taking what you can, not everything you need. In Syria, warm clothing, shoes, thermal blankets and heaters help displaced families, especially during the winter season.
$25 provides winter clothing for one child 
$25 provides an electric space heater $52 provides two thermal blankets for one family
Thank you for providing warmth and comfort to families in need.
 
MCC - Relief, development, and peace in the name of Christ!
https://mcccanada.ca/stories/my-coins-count-mcc-sk

SangMin Lee, a South Korean conscientious objector who was imprisoned for 18 months in 2014 and 2015 for his refusal to serve in the military, died Aug. 14 due to a bicycle accident. He was 35.
 
Lee was a member of Grace and Peace Mennonite Church in Seoul, and was released from prison on July 30, 2015. At the time he was believed to be the only Korean Mennonite to choose jail over mandatory military service.
 
His story was shared at the 2015 Mennonite World Conference assembly in Harrisburg, Pa., when participants prayed for him and sent words of encouragement.
 
“I’m trying to live a normal life, find a more simple answer to how to live,” he said about half a year after his release in late 2015 at an event hosted by the Institute for the Study of Global Anabaptism and Goshen College. “I try to be thankful for every day and make each day as important as the last.”
 
He is survived by his wife, Song Sem, and a 3-year-old son.
 
https://anabaptistworld.org/bicycle-accident-claims-life-of-south-korean-co/

Mennonite World Conference (WMC) represents the majority of the global family of Christian churches rooted in the 16th century Radical Reformation in Europe, particularly in the Anabaptist movement.
 
MWC membership in 2022 included one international association and 109 Mennonite and Brethren in Christ national churches from 59 countries, with around 1.47 million baptized believers in close to 10,300 congregations. About 84% of baptized believers in MWC member churches are African, Asian or Latin American, and 16% are located in Europe and North America.
 
World Mennonite (Anabaptist) Fellowship (WMF) Sunday is celebrated each year and organized by the Mennonite World Conference. The next one is Sunday 22 January 2023.  We support the Mennonite World Conference through our budget yearly.
 
Mennonite World Conference - A Community of Anabaptist Related Churche