Have you been meaning to clear out household items that you no longer use, but haven’t gotten around to it yet? Well, now’s the time to do it! Our thrift shops are in need of household donations to keep supplies strong on the sales floor. Pack up some boxes and head over to our MCC Thrift Shop on 254 Grantham Avenue.
https://mccthriftontario.com/
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MCC urgently needs soap donations for countries where soap is scarce. Both bath soap (85 g or larger, in wrapper) and laundry soap(Fels Naptha, Sunlight, or Zote) are needed. Please donate to meet this crucial need. Donations can be brought to Grace and placed in the box in the church foyer marked Soap Donations, or to the MCC Thrift Shop.
https://mcc.org/get-involved/kits/soap MCC Ontario programs have been quite busy recently! With everything from relief-kit packing to refugee sponsorship paperwork to providing workshops and advocacy, staff and volunteers have been active in local communities working for peace and justice.
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Thank you for making a difference here in Ontario. https://mcc.org/our-stories/your-impact-ontario-summer-2024 Mennonite Central Community - Relief, development and peace in the name of Christ The challenge: Help 24,000 kids attend school by donating 24,000 school kits during the month of August. Whether you donate one or 100 school kits, every donation helps!
Notebooks and pencils are a tangible message of God’s love for families around the world who have been forced to flee their homes or struggle to afford basic school supplies. Without these items, many kids can’t get the education they desperately need. Unable to purchase supplies and drop off a school kit? No worries! You can sponsor the cost of items for one instead. A donation of $9 covers the cost of the items for one kit, including the double drawstring bag that we used to pack supplies. To learn more visit, https://mcc.org/school-kit-challenge Mennonite Central Committee – Relief, Development, and Peace in the Name of Christ MCC and its partners in Burundi are working together to respond to the immense needs in the country after torrential rainfall and a series of floods and landslides have displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
Whole villages have been submerged or leveled by landslides. More than 300,000 people are in desperate need of relief. Nearly 90% of Burundians make their living as subsistence farmers, and many have lost their entire livelihoods as their farmland is violently washed away. MCC is responding to the immense need in Burundi in a joint effort with many of its partners in the region. Working with partners MCC has begun its emergency relief response for 500 affected families. Each family will receive 20 kgs of rice, 10 kgs of beans, a bucket, a package of sanitary pads (where needed), a carton of soap and a flashlight with batteries. Read the whole story at https://mcc.org/our-stories/mcc-responds-disastrous-floods-burundi-local-partners MCC: Relief, development and peace in the name of Christ Congratulations to our incredible partner, The Raw Carrot, on celebrating 10 amazing years of cooking up delicious, handcrafted gourmet soups!
We are so proud to be part of your journey and mission. The Raw Carrot is more than just a soup maker; it’s a beacon of hope and opportunity. By empowering individuals who face barriers to traditional employment, The Raw Carrot offers the dignity of work and the chance to secure livelihoods by provide meaningful employment to adults on social assistance, turning simple ingredients into gourmet masterpieces. Here's to a decade of changing lives, one bowl at a time, and to many more years of impactful and inspiring work. Cheers to The Raw Carrot and the amazing team behind it! https://therawcarrot.com/ (Note from Jan: These soups make great gifts!) MCC: Relief, development and peace in the name of Christ First Steps is a Christian organization that seeks to prevent and alleviate childhood malnutrition in North Korea through our programs which provide essential nutrients to young children, babies, pregnant, and lactating mothers. We are motivated by our faith to share God’s love by working with the government to improve the health and prospects of women and children in the DPRK. First Steps has the rare and privileged opportunity of continuing our humanitarian aid in the DPRK over many years and through many challenges.
First Steps’ programs operate in 10 areas across four provinces and one district. Learn more at https://www.firststepscanada.org/ MCC: Relief, development and peace in the name of Christ While students from Lancaster Mennonite (LM) School were packing MCC school kits during World Changer Week in March, Rebecca Burkholder, MCC U.S. director of International Program, was visiting schools in Chad that would receive school kits
“I visited three schools in the North Kanem area, which is in the Sahel region, near the Sahara Desert,” Burkholder said. “The children walk to school. Some may come by donkey or even camel.” The students were very engaged in their education, said Burkholder, who had come to Chad to see MCC’s projects and to support and encourage MCC’s staff and partners. The school kits, which include a drawstring bag, paper notebooks, pencils, pencil sharpener, pens, ruler, eraser and colored pencils, are important because these educational supplies are hard to find in Chad, and they are too expensive for parents to purchase locally, Burkholder said. Lancaster Mennonite students in first, second, third and fifth grades helped pack the school supplies in cloth drawstring bags, which are commonly reused as backpacks. More than 450 school kits were assembled. https://mcc.org/our-stories/connecting-students-chad-and-pennsylvania MCC: Relief, development and peace in the name of Christ This spring – amid unimaginable destruction in Gaza and as Palestinians mark the 76th anniversary of what is known in Arabic as the Nakba, or Catastrophe – we invite you on a photographic journey through the history of MCC’s work in this region. See https://mcc.org/our-stories/marking-75-years-mcc-palestine-and-israel
Behind these images are countless lives and stories. May we hold this history and the 75 years of MCC’s service in our hearts as we continue to live into MCC’s mission of working for peace and justice. And may we ask how what we see and learn here can shape us to pray, to act, to give, to serve. (Primary source: Alain Epp Weaver and Sonia K. Weaver, Salt and Sign: Mennonite Central Committee in Palestine 1949-1999) MCC – Relief, development, and peace – in the name of Christ. |
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