Missions and Service
The Missions and Service ministry provides leadership and ideas for teams that partner with our community and the world around us.
Current Mission
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Service Projects
MDS June 3-7, 2024 Shuswap
On August 18, 2023, the Bush Creek East Wildfire ran through the North Shuswap Region, destroying 176 structures throughout Scotch Creek, Lee Creek, and Celista. MDS responded in the communities of Celista and Scotch Creek, rebuilding four homes and assisting with other smaller projects in the community.
This short clip from a CBC broadcast will give you an idea of what people were facing. Video
During the week of June 3-7 2024 nineteen volunteers from Saskatoon, Warman, Cranbrook, Hanley, Winnipeg, Red Deer, Morden, Winkler, Meldrum Bay, Waldheim and Port Moody, including 6 from MRMC, worked at 3of the 4 home restoration sites. See a selection of photos from the sites. PDF
MRMC Sponsor a Meal at Friendship Inn
On January 8th, 2022 at Friendship Inn - volunteers from the congregation participated in their first Sponsor a Meal project. In addition to the work serving and preparing food, we contributed $3165.00 toward the cost of meals for one day!
The crew at Friendship Inn are very appreciative of both the work and the funds. Since then "Sponsor a Meal" has become an ongoing project. Donations toward the next sponsored meal will be added to the Friendship Inn meal sponsorship fund for a future date when we do this again. See the "volunteer day" article below for sample action photos.
See our donate page for ways to make your donation. When donating, designate to 'Friendship Inn meal project' or simply 'FINN.' Watch this webpage for the next opportunity (date) to volunteer to help with preparing and serving the meal.
Past Missions
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Service Projects
MDS 2023 Cape Breton
Hurricane Fiona struck Nova Scotia on September 24, 2022 with sustained winds of 140 km/hour, uprooting trees, tearing off roofs and turning lives upside down. Evidence of Hurricane Fiona are everywhere eight months after the storm hit. Many homes haven't been repaired or rebuilt because disaster relief hasn't arrived, or because there are no contractors available to do the work. Enter MDS.
A couple groups of people from our congregation volunteered this spring to go to Cape Breton and help with reconstruction.
This video contains a series of photos showing the homes that were worked on.
Here is a script that goes with the video. The script has numbers to correspond with the slides on the video. Also the names of the volunteers whose comments and pictures come next. You can download and print the script and follow along with the video. You will likely need to keep your cursor on the pause button as you watch and read the script. Or you can just watch the video, and read the script later. Or I leave it to your ingenuity, you might be able to watch the YouTube video on your smart TV and read the script on another device. Enjoy!
Princeton April 2022 Mennonite Disaster Service
A number of people from the congregation went to Princeton BC to assist with cleanup and reconstruction.
Our volunteers joined three groups of volunteers from other churches in Canada on three separate weeks.
Here are photos of the volunteers, the projects and the flood damage they witnessed.
Volunteer Day at Friendship Inn Sponsor a Meal
Friendship Inn Christmas Card Fundraiser
These original paintings turned into cards by Jodi Epp are being sold to raise money for the Friendship Inn.
8.00 for individual cards, or a set with 1 of each the 11 for 70.00. (other larger quantity orders can be negotiated individually) 50% of the money raised will be donated.
Order deadline is November 27, 2023 which allows time for printing and delivery in early December.
Please email Jodi Epp at eppitizers@outlook.com to place orders or enquire further.
Payment is due with the order, and can be cash or etransfer.
MRMC Missions Ministry Team has accepted another mission that all too often
seems like a truly Impossible Mission for many of our newest members of our
local community!
The Mission: Inject funds into the Emergency Fund at the Global Gathering
Place. www.globalgatheringplace.com
Mission Details: Missions Ministry reached out to Global Gathering Place with
an invitation to help where we could and we were presented with an immediate
need for a Small child sized wheelchair for 6 year old Hamzi from Somalia
(see attached document). This part of the mission was accomplished with the
purchase of a 16” x 16” wheel chair for the GGP to loan to the family.
Additionally, ongoing support to the Emergency Fund is required to help pay
for internet for those that have no means, purchasing enough groceries to
survive for a day or 2, purchasing bus passes etc. etc. etc.
How can you help with this Mission: By donating to the Global Gathering Place
Emergency Fund You will help make the seemingly impossible reality of
transitioning life from a community on the other side of the world to our
community ….POSSIBLE!
Donations can be made to MRMC and designated to GGP. Receipts will be issued.
Operation Potato Peeler
As we all know, 2020 has created challenges that many of us have never encountered before. These challenges have impacted Global and Local Communities, stretching resources for those most vulnerable and the organizations like The Friendship Inn that are on the frontlines serving those communities. Unfortunately, due to COVID 19 The Friendship Inn has experienced a rapid decline in volunteer participation. They rely on volunteers to prepare and serve a healthy Breakfast and Lunch to 300 500 guests every day.
Full project details HerE
Refugee Sponsorship
MRMC has a long history of working with MCC to sponsor refugees, beginning with Vietnamese Boat people and Salvadoran refugees in the 70’s and 80’s. Since then we have worked with refugees from the Congo and more recently from Syria.
Hold your cursor over a photo below to see the story behind it.
Annual Spring Food Drive
For the past several years we have been involved with the Saskatoon Food Bank and Learning Centre's spring city wide food drive. Our church volunteers collected the food donations from the physical neighbourhood around the church, and delivered it to collection centers for the Food Bank.