Northern Ireland
Mobilizing for planting peace churches

About Northern Ireland

​Mennonite missions began in the Republic of Ireland in 1978, extending to Northern Ireland (part of the United Kingdom) in 1987.

Beginning in the 1990s, workers in both the Republic and the North focused on reconciliation and peace ministries, including developing a reconciliation studies program for the Irish School of Ecumenics (Belfast) and Trinity College (Dublin), and working in a cross-community (Protestant and Catholic) project of a Methodist church in West Belfast.

Currently serving

Seth and Stephany Rudeen
Seth and Stephany Rudeen
Guatemala
Caleb and Stephanie Schrock-Hurst
Taiwan
Christy Harrison and Peter Sensenig
France
Katherine Widmer
France
Toni and Matthew Krabill
Toni and Matthew Krabill
Ghana
Joseph and Rachel Givens
France
Delicia Bravo Aguilar and Peter Wigginton
Ecuador
Robin Gingerich
Lithuania
David and Rebekka Stutzman
Germany

Service opportunities

United States
Restoration Project Manager
Rio Grande Headwaters Restoration Project
Mennonite Voluntary Service
Ages 20+
United States
Community Health Nurse
County Nursing Service
Mennonite Voluntary Service
Ages 20+
United States
Housing Program Intern
Homeless Prenatal Program
Mennonite Voluntary Service
Ages 20+
United States
La Puente Home Multiple Volunteer Opportunities
La Puente Home Inc.
Mennonite Voluntary Service
United States
Mennonite Church USA Archives
SOOP
United States
Spruce Lake Retreat
SOOP
United States
Phoenix
SOOP
Ages 25+
United States
MCC Appalachia
SOOP
Ages 25+
United States
Macon
SOOP
Ages 25+
United States
Drift Creek Camp
SOOP
Ages 25+
United States
Baltimore
SOOP
Ages 25+
Christ at the Borders, Arizona
Just Peace Pilgrimage
Family Groups Friend Groups Intergenerational Groups Youth Groups

Ministry partners

Mennonite Church South Korea
Rescue Network Nepal
United Mission to Nepal
Tokyo Anabaptist Center
Sinode Jemaat Kristen Indonesia
Gereja Kristen Muria Indonesia
Gereja Injili di Tanah Jawa
Fraternité Evangélique du Senegal
Nigerian Anabaptist Resource Center
Ghana Mennonite Church
Meserete Kristos Seminary
University of the Christian Alliance of Abidjan

Northern Ireland stories

  • Video
Miriam Offe volunteered at a head start preschool in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, during her time in Service Adventure in 2023.
What’s the impact of Service Adventure for a host community?
  • Blog
The pilgrimage included a tour of Monument Valley, on the ancestral land of the Navajo Nation. Monument Valley is considered sacred by the Navajo people. Despite this, it was mined for uranium in the 1940s-60s, leaving behind nuclear waste, abandoned mines, and numerous health hazards for the local Indigenous population. Photo by Myrna Krehbiel.
Solidarity pilgrimage in Navajoland
  • Blog
Mya Cook looks up at a cross placed on the border wall. Photo by Jonathan Wenger.
First Mennonite Church group experiences Christ at the Borders
  • News
From back left, Daniel Goldschmidt-Nussbaumer, a Mennonite Board of Missions doctor from France, and Saturnin Afaton, a Beninese lawyer. From front left, Rebecca Assani, an Apostolic Church educator, and Lynda Hollinger-Janzen begin a river crossing in a pirogue (dugout canoe) during a community health trip to Gbeko in 1987.
Hollinger-Janzen retires after more than four decades of mission 
  • Video
Savannah Roth Walter, Ana Esperanza Neufeld Weaver and Milo Jones along the coast in San Francisco
Take a tour of the San Francisco MVS unit house!
  • Video
Alamosa
Tour the Alamosa MVS unit house
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