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  • JoinHands Blesses Eden Life Church

    The four language communities of Eden Life International Church of Kansas City, Missouri, gathered for a combined service of celebration on April 28, 2019 to receive the JoinHands grant of $30,000 towards the purchase of their meetinghouse.

    The church began under the sponsorship of South Central Mennonite Conference in July 2016 with the calling of Ethiopian church planter, Pastor Omot Aganya and his wife, Hanna. Read more.


  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Read more.

  • 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.

  • Manitoba church pays it forward

    ​Seeds Church, a member of Mennonite Church Manitoba, recently made a $10,000 contribution to JoinHands, paying forward a portion of the grant they received from Mennonite Men to help another congregation. Read their story here.

  • Manitoba church pays it forward

    ​ Seeds Church, a member of Mennonite Church Manitoba, recently made a $10,000 contribution to JoinHands, paying forward a portion of the grant they received from Mennonite Men to help another congregation. Read their story here.