Mennonite Central Committee & Other Projects

• Yella – Young Adult Middle Eastern Learning Tour
• IVEP – International Volunteer Exchange Program
• MDS – Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS is no longer an MCC Project)
• SALT – Serving & Learning Together
• SOOP – Service Opportunities for Older People
• CFGB - Canadian Food Grains Bank
• And many more at MCC and MCC Ontario

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YAMS

• Young Adult Mission & Service

• Introduced in 2002 to promote and support young adults between the ages of 18 and 29 interested in mission work. 

• Offering funding for up to 1/3 of total trip costs, YAMS applicants are encouraged to cover 1/3 of costs themselves, and fundraise the remaining 1/3. 

Mission Events

• Mission Weekend

• Community Carnival (June 9, 2012)

• Mission Sunday (June 10, 2012)

• Christmas Gift Giving & Visitations (Annual Event)

• Gifts are collected from the congregation.

• Learning Tours

• Our church has participated in a number of Learning Tours to Macau, Guatemala and the Philippines over the past number of years.  These learning tours have led to many participants re-examining their life situations, and even took our own Matt Tiessen back to the Philippines for a full year of missions there.

• Our church is looking into another Learning Tour to the Philippines – stay tuned for details!

• Mennonite World Conference

• Mennonite World Conference is hosted in different locations around the globe every 7 years.  In 2009, LUMC sponsored 2 foreign delegates who could otherwise not afford to go.  In addition to these delegates, we also sent 2 youth and 1 sponsor to represent our church. 

Mission Around the World

• Our church has partnered with the Peace Builders Community in the Philippines.  The ministry of Peace Builders Community, Inc. (PBCI) is a practical articulation of Peace Theology—that is, advancing the Gospel of Shalom. Shalom is understood as harmony with the Creator (spiritual transformation), harmony with our Being (psycho-social transformation), harmony with Others (socio-political transformation), and harmony with the Creation (economic-ecological transformation).  Our member Matt Tiessen recently returned from a year serving with Peace Builders Community.