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Take the sting out of winter’s chill by joining The Great Winter Warm-up. By the end of 2023, our goal is to donate a grand total of 45,000 blankets to our global neighbors who are dealing with conflict and disaster. Your participation in our Great Winter Warm-up this February will go a long way in helping us meet that goal. During the month of February 2021, 4,384 comforters were created by people like you and donated to families in countries including Syria, Ukraine and Jordan. Your time and creative talents are helping to share a tangible message of God’s love with those in need. Together, we can share warmth and comfort to our global neighbours. https://mcccanada.ca/great-winter-warm-up MCC - Relief, development, and peace in the name of Christ! 
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Mudombo used to spend many hours each week collecting wood that she needed to cook her family’s dinner over an open fire. Dead wood is increasingly hard to find because of deforestation, so she and her friends walked long distances into remote and sometimes dangerous areas of the forest to find fuel. But in 2022, Mennonite Central Committee’s partner Score Against Poverty (SCORE) helped Mudombo and her husband, Elnathan Mboweni, get an underground biodigester on their farm in Joseph Village. Now, every day, one of them mixes cow manure with water and pours the mixture into the digester, which turns the manure into gas energy. MCC - Relief, development, and peace in the name of Christ! https://mcccanada.ca/stories/cow-manure-comforters  The fuel-efficient stove in Ntombizodwa Mapfacha’s dirt courtyard in Mwenezi District, Zimbabwe, doesn’t look like a life-changing piece of technology. It looks like a 2-foot high, round metal can. Nevertheless, this sturdy stove not only cooks a traditional, family-size meal of sadza (thick cornmeal) and beans. It also is empowering Mapfacha and other women in Mwenezi District. No longer does Mapfacha have to walk six miles every other day to find firewood in the mountain, where she is wary of poisonous snakes and men who could take advantage of her in the remote area. The new stove cooks with just a few pieces of wood and dried corn cobs, which she can gather close to home. “Empowerment is giving voice, giving opportunities for people to choose what they want to do,” Pugeni says. “Even to speak out for themselves confidently, access information. Explore the talents that they have.” Read more at https://mcccanada.ca/stories/powerful-change-technology-can-bring MCC - Relief, development, and peace in the name of Christ!  For more than two decades, Mennonite Central Committee's (MCC) work in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) has responded to needs and hunger in the midst of a sensitive political climate. Projects include:
-Peacebuilding on both sides of the border: North and South Korea -NK agriculturalists and farmers visiting a agricultural research station and a local farm in Manitoba -Providing soya milk to children in orphanages and in schools -Providing canned meat for thousands of people suffering from tuberculosis and hepatitis MCC - Relief, development, and peace in the name of Christ! https://mcccanada.ca/centennial/100-stories/mcc-democratic-peoples-republic-korea After church today, please pick up your January card and cupcake (made by our Secret Baker.) What are we celebrating? A Korean Birthday! In South Korea, your age changes the first day of the year – although you would celebrate on the actual day of your birth. A donation has been given to MCC’s partner – First Steps – that provides soya milk to orphanages in North Korea. / jan https://www.firststepscanada.org/  Honor those who love fishing with the gift of a stocked pond. In Cambodia, establishing fishponds and selling fish provides a new way to supplement earnings from growing rice, helping families like Srautrahn Chee and her grandparents who are raising her. This holiday season, choose a gift that changes lives. $26 provides fish fingerlings for a pond. MCC - Relief, development, and peace in the name of Christ! https://mcccanada.ca/stories/farmers-helping-farmers  “Raw Carrot” gourmet soup is well priced is now available at MCC Thrift Store (Christian Benefit Shop) at 254 Grantham. And it’s amazing!
->The Raw Carrot is a social franchise that believes that every person who WANTS to work should have the opportunity for a Hand Up (instead of just a handout) in life! We partner with churches and nonprofits across Ontario to create meaningful employment for amazingly talented individuals living with disAbilities and mental health illness. We’re “stirring up” change in local communities through our delicious, handcrafted gourmet soup.<- Here are the flavors: Signature Carrot, Spicyish Sausage & Cabbage, Hearty Lentil and Barley, Loaded Potato & Bacon, Mulligatawny, Veggie Mania, and Flying Noodle. The Raw Carrot Soup Enterprise is supported by the Mennonite Central Committee. MCC - Relief, development, and peace in the name of Christ! https://therawcarrot.com/ 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/  |
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