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Mission and Service
Ten Thousand Villages
The Learning Center Center for Peace Jeremiah House Vesper Chorale Hospitality House Global Connections Habitat for Humanity Hope Rescue Mission Kern Road Quilters MCC Relief Sale Mennonite Disaster Services Mennonite Disabilities Comm. Southfield Village Evangelism Committee Service Committee Peace and Justice Committee KRMC Mission Group |
Global Connections
KRMC is a congregation with many global connections. Numerous KRMCers
have served internationally with church mission and service programs. To underscore that we are part of a global church, the congregation pledged to contribute 2% of its construction budget to the Global Church Sharing Fund as part of the 1997 building expansion. As part of a visioning process in 2000, the congregation was challenged to develop a church-to-church relationship with a congregation or group of Anabaptist/Mennonite Christians in another part of the world. In 2005 a Global Partnership Taskforce was formed. KRMC became a Mennonite World Conference (www.mwc-cmm.org) “Global Church Congregation,” supporting and participating in the MWC Council in Pasadena in March 2006. KRMC is presently pursuing relationships with Mennonite churches in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and with Mennonite women in Kisumu, Kenya. Global Church Sharing Fund As part of the 1997 building expansion, the congregation pledged to contribute 2% ($26,000) of its construction budget to the Global Church Sharing Fund. This was to demonstrate that our lives are linked to the lives of our brothers and sisters around the world. The Global Church Sharing Fund, administered by the Mennonite World Conference, is made available to Third World churches to use as they determine best. The Guatemalan Mennonite Church, for example, used some of these funds to help with the construction of a seminary. (At least $500 is contributed each year; more than $8,000 has been contributed thus far.) |
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