Mennonite Central Committee U.S. (1979-2012)

Corporate body

Mennonite Central Committee U.S. (1979-2012)

• MCC U.S.

1979-2012

MCC U.S. was founded at a meeting in Reedley, California, in 1979, partially as a merger between two MCC regional centers already existing in the United States: MCC Central States and West Coast MCC. At that time, MCC U.S. was intended to have functions that paralleled those of MCC Canada which was founded in 1963. The purpose of forming MCC U.S. was for it to assume national responsibility for MCC programs in the United States and to address other uniquely American domestic concerns. At this point, MCC U.S. was not independent of MCC Binational. At its founding in 1979, there was also strong interest in generating constituency and resource support for MCC international programming. Previously, American concerns and programming were handled by MCC Binational staff. International programming continued to remain the responsibility of MCC Binational until 2012.
MCC U.S. administered national programming that has involved voluntary service, urban ministries, immigration and refugee concerns, criminal justice, and Ten Thousand Villages. Many of these programs mirrored MCC programs in Canada but with a uniquely American identity and focus.
In 2000 MCC U.S. separately incorporated from MCC Binational.
Beginning in 2008, MCC began a process of consultation and discussion concerning the purpose and structure of MCC Binational, MCC Canada, and MCC U.S. called New Wine/New Wineskins. This process was begun with the goal of MCC international programming becoming more effectively and efficiently administered. At the conclusion of the New Wine/New Wineskin process in 2012, MCC Binational was dissolved and ceased to be an MCC entity, which left both MCC Canada and MCC U.S. in the position to act jointly in administering a single MCC International Program that had previously been ultimately administered by MCC Binational.

Akron, Pennsylvania

The purpose of Mennonite Central Committee U.S. (MCC U.S.) is to foster hope and reconciliation in a broken world and in the name of Christ to spread the good news of God’s love by: working alongside persons suffering from poverty, violence and oppression; generating resources for the work of MCC U.S. and the world-wide work of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC); facilitating connections and understanding among our constituents and others; and promoting peace and justice through education, advocacy and relationship building. - from the Bylaws approved by MCC U.S. Board June 2001.

Neufeld, Elmer. "Mennonite Central Committee United States." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1987. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Mennonite_Central_Committee_United_States.

MCC U.S. works as an autonomous MCC entity, although in conducting international programming, it acts jointly with MCC Canada. MCC U.S. has four regional offices: West Coast MCC (Reedley, CA), MCC Central States (Newton, Kansas), MCC Great Lakes (Kidron, Ohio), and MCC East Coast (Akron, PA). The MCC U.S. national offices are in Akron, PA.

Mennonite Central Committee, Akron, PA

April 6, 2021

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