The Dallas Unit of Mennonite Voluntary Service (MVS) is a service project of Peace Mennonite Church. The vision of Dallas MVS is to provide workers for projects and organizations that further justice and peace in the world, that work toward making sure the basic needs and rights of society's most vulnerable and least powerful are respected. Our ideal is to place workers in positions that couldn't exist through "regular" resources and structures, for example, in non-profit service agencies that cannot afford to pay a regular employee. In such positions, MVS workers can be instrumental in getting necessary work done, while gaining experience in work and life.
MVS has helped thousands from Mennonite and other backgrounds gain new understandings about themselves, their world and their faith by approaching the poor.
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Live in Christian community |
MVS workers (volunteers) commit to a one to two year term of service during which they live in community with one another and follow a simple lifestyle with basic needs met. |
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Put faith into practice |
The MVS committee of Peace Mennonite Church
acts as local support for the household of volunteers and arranges positions
for the workers with appropriate local organizations. Mennonite Voluntary Service office is an agency of the Mennonite Mission Network, of the Mennonite Church USA. They recruits and processes applications of the volunteer workers and coordinates their placement in local units, such as this one in Dallas, in the U.S. and Canada. |
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Broaden your experience |
Dallas MVS Unit members have held positions as teachers, teachers aides,
social workers, a dental assistant, receptionists, bookkeepers, office
workers, grant writers... Local non-profit service agencies and organizations provide necessary training and supervision and a monthly stipend toward the financial support of the worker, in exchange for a full time worker at low cost. These are the agencies with which MVS Dallas is presently working |
