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  • Giving back: the story of Grace Mennonite

    Giving back: the story of Grace Mennonite

    In May 1999, Grace Mennonite Fellowship, Lacey Spring, Va., received word that Mennonite Men, then a General Conference Mennonite organization, named us as recipients of a $30,000 grant. This grant was to be used to support our first church building project… It empowered us to move forward, trusting God would provide all our needs, according to his riches in Christ Jesus.​ Read the entire article.

  • Charlotte Mara Church Purchases Building

    Charlotte Mara Church Purchases Building

    ​In September, 2018, the Mara Christian Church of Charlotte, North Carolina, bought a nearly 100-year-old church on 3 acres of land southeast of Charlotte. After five years of praying, fasting, intensive saving, renting, and with help from Mennonite Men, they are praising God for a permanent place of their own! Read the entire article.

  • How Then Shall We Live?

    How Then Shall We Live?

    ​A Week-long Wilderness Adventure

    Taos, New Mexico, September 8-15, 2018


    Mennonite Men had its first week-long immersion experience in the wilderness of New Mexico to address the question, “How then shall we live?”

    This was led by Todd Wynward, wilderness educator and Mennonite minister for creation care, and author of Rewilding the Way: Break Free to Follow an Untamed God.

    In response to an open invitation from Mennonite Men, ten men from across the country came together for this wilderness adventure to explore how to live as followers of Jesus in a world where our lifestyles impact people and the planet.


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  • Men at Camp Friedenswald Explore Healthy Masculinity

    ​Healthy masculinity was the topic explored by 27 men who met In October 2018 at Camp Friedenswald, Cassopolis, Michigan. Among various issues related to being men, the men considered how to meet five human needs. Read the entire story.

  • Men at Camp Friedenswald Explore Healthy Masculinity

    ​Healthy masculinity was the topic explored by 27 men who met In October 2018 at Camp Friedenswald, Cassopolis, Michigan. Among various issues related to being men, the men considered how to meet five human needs. Read the entire article.

  • Healthy Masculinity Retreat at Hidden Acres

    Does Canadian culture form healthier men?

    ‘Be a man.’ This is what many males hear. But what does this mean? It’s often meant to tell boys and men to not cry or feel, but to be tough and in control.

    Believing that healthy masculinity means something much more and better than this, about twenty men met at Hidden Acres Mennonite Camp in June for the retreat Healthy Masculinity: On Being a Man.

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  • Tenth Man: A pastor’s testimony

    ​Leonard Wiebe relates journey to find a new home for his congregation. ‘One particular day, I was driving in the neighborhood. I drove onto the lot, wishing we could buy it. I started walking across the lot, and somehow felt the need to pray. I knelt down on the ground, and prayed, ‘Lord, if you want to have a church planted here, you will have to help us.” Read the entire story here.

  • Tenth Man: A pastor’s testimony

    ​Leonard Wiebe relates journey to find a new home for his congregation. ‘One particular day, I was driving in the neighborhood. I drove onto the lot, wishing we could buy it. I started walking across the lot, and somehow felt the need to pray. I knelt down on the ground, and prayed, ‘Lord, if you want to have a church planted here, you will have to help us.” Read the entire story here.

  • Wounded Lovers Retreat

    A journalist once asked, why in the world are men so consumed by sex? ‘Did nature simply overload us in the mating department, hot-wiring us for the sex that is so central to the survival of the species, and never mind the sometimes sloppy consequences? Or is there something smarter and subtler at work, some larger interplay among sexuality, life and what it means to be human?’

    On a Saturday in April, men met to address this question at Pathways Retreat in Goshen, Indiana and put sexuality and spirituality back together as they shared about the joys and struggles of their sexual lives.

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  • Wounded Lovers Retreat

    A journalist once asked, why in the world are men so consumed by sex? “Did nature simply overload us in the mating department, hot-wiring us for the sex that is so central to the survival of the species, and never mind the sometimes sloppy conse-quences? Or is there something smarter and subtler at work, some larger interplay among sexuality, life and what it means to be human?”

    On a Saturday in April, men met to address this question at Pathways Retreat in Goshen, Indiana and put sexuality and spirituality back together as they shared about the joys and struggles of their sexual lives.

    Read more.