Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Followers of Christ Mennonite Church in Mexico City could no longer run its program to reach young people living in poverty and marginalization. But online outreach has opened new opportunities.
Like many people who’ve lost parents they were close to, I think about mine daily.
Old bread isn’t hard. Not having bread is hard. That’s an observation Pastor María Elena Rodríguez forwarded to the Venezuelan Mennonite WhatsApp group recently. Providing fellowship through this online group and serving the hungry are two of the ways Venezuelan Mennonites are sharing food for body and soul during the COVID-19 pandemic.
MWC’s COVID-19 task force has approved 21 relief proposals from Anabaptist churches in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Food and sanitation materials are part of all the proposals.
Mennonites in the West African nation of Burkina Faso are working to prevent the spread of COVID-19 to untouched regions of the country.