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
After School Program Assistant
Metropolitan Family Services
Mennonite Voluntary Service
Ages 20+
United States
Kaleidoscope Program Coordinator
Brethren Mennonite Council for LGBT Interests
Mennonite Voluntary Service
Ages 20+
Jackson
Open Door Mennonite Church
SOOP
Ages 25+
United States
River Run Network Program Coordinator
Watershed Management Group
Mennonite Voluntary Service
Ages 20+
United States
Rio Grande Health Associate
Rio Grande Hospital and Clinics
Mennonite Voluntary Service
Ages 20+
United States
ESL or youth program assistant
Pui Tak Center
Mennonite Voluntary Service
Ages 20+
United States
Legal Orientation and Administrative Assistant
Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project
Mennonite Voluntary Service
Ages 20+
United States
Immigration Advocate
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council
Mennonite Voluntary Service
Ages 20+
United States
Communications Coordinator and Indigenous Solidarity Organizer
Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery Coalition
Mennonite Voluntary Service
Ages 20+
United States
Faith Daycare Assistant
Faith Daycare and Learning Center
Service Adventure
Ages 17–20
Canada
MCC Montreal
SOOP
Ages 25+
United States
Educational Gardens Coordinator
La Puente Home Inc (Valley Educational Gardens Initiative)
Mennonite Voluntary Service
Ages 20+

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

  • Blog
The pilgrimage visited the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. Tom Mason, Sally Mason, and Loy Hoskins approach the building, still labelled Lorraine Motel, the place where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968. Photo by Natalie Dixon.
Pilgrimage in photos: Disciples of Christ Civil Rights Pilgrimage
  • Blog
Photo by Mark (mprage) on Unsplash.
A little bit of everything that refuses to add up
  • News
While on a tour of Calais, the pilgrimage stopped to say a prayer while touching one of the many walls put up throughout the city to keep migrating people out. Photo by Roger Farmer.
Pilgrimage in photos: Christ at the Borders in Calais
  • Blog
In the concluding weeks of her MVS term, Emily Keefer took time to commit to memory the landscapes she'd lived in and around the past two years. Photo by Emily Keefer.
Mennonite Voluntary Service term ends with learning to say goodbye
  • Blog
Caleb and Stephanie Schrock-Hurst pose with "finger hearts" (a popular Taiwanese photo gesture, like the peace sign) in the National Dong Hwa University Chinese Language Center office.
Settling into Hualien 
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