My year of service

"Sometimes the important thing is not making someone else agree with you; it is actually listening and giving others an opportunity to express their views," says Sitha Mpofu of Zimbabwe, who describes one thing she learned while serving with MCC in Kansas. From teachers and nurses to architects and communications professionals, many young adults have the opportunity through MCC's Global Service Learning programs to live abroad for a year, to learn more about themselves and others and to deepen their relationship with God. Read more about the learnings of Mpofu and other young adults, four from the East Coast region.

Serving the world after Messiah

This year, Messiah College, in Mechanicsburg, PA, has a record number of alumni taking part in MCC's Serving and Learning Together (SALT) program, a unique year-long cross-cultural immersion experience for Christian young adults from the U.S. and Canada, ages 18-30. Learn more about why four of the seven decided to serve with MCC over the next year.

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Consider hosting an IVEPer

Every year, 60 young adults from around the world serve with MCC in Canada and the U.S. through our International Volunteer Exchange Program (IVEP). They work with local organizations and businesses while living with host families or individuals. We're always looking for new hosts, either a welcoming home or an interesting work placement. Hear some reflections from our outgoing IVEP participants on what having a host family meant to them.

Grateful. Blessed. Alive.

These are just a few of the things our East Coast SALTers felt as they returned to the U.S. after their year of serving abroad with MCC. Check out their before and after photos and read what they learned over the past year.

In Touch time machine

South Africa, 1982. Mrs. Mancotywa and MCC service worker Magdalene Andres.

"(Mancotywa) was our language teacher, neighbor, mother, and cultural guide," says Andres. She worked with her husband, David Neufeld, under the South African Council of Churches on water, gardening, preschool and health care projects. They went on to serve with MCC Saskatchewan and later as MCC representatives for Lesotho.

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