Welcome!
Thank you for sharing in our journey. We hope this website will be an important means of keeping in touch with friends, family, and others, as we embark on a new phase of our lives as MCC workers in Rwanda. Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is a voluntary service, Christian, relief and development agency that works throughout the world, and emphasizes peace and working with local partners. We believe that MCC embodies many of our most cherished values, and we are excited to be a part of such a wonderful organization!
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We are currently on a 3-year assignment in Kigali, Rwanda as Capacity Building Advisors with primarily the Friends Peace House, which has programs including: workshops on conflict transformation, reconciliation, and trauma healing; restorative justice & prisoner reintegration; a school for street children; women’s empowerment groups that bring together women from both sides of the genocide/conflict, and a peace library, among others. The organization fills a very important role, as Rwandan society is still struggling to recover after the genocide in 1994. We anticipate being involved with administration and strategic planning, as well as some direct programming, but mostly we know our roles will evolve in time as we await the invitations of the people we serve and the leading of the Spirit.
We are currently living with our two boys (David, 5, and Eli, 2) in a new home in a suburb of Kigali not far from the Friends Peace House. Please sign up for email updates and check back here often to see photos & share our journey. You are all so important to us, and your prayers and support mean so much. Shalom!
Celeste & Aaron