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Through Sister-Link, Mennonite Women USA provides networking to build relationships locally and globally.
These relationships emphasize mutual giving and receiving, and validate our wide variety of gifts. |
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Sister-Link description.
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Sister-Link connects hands and hearts through prayer, letter writing, sharing resources, and face-to-face visits.
Groups and individual women interested in participating in Sister-Link are invited to contact MW USA Co-Executive Director Ruth Lapp Guengerich.
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Sister-Link relationships reach across the U.S.
| Mennonite Women USA's Housewarming Sister-Link brings quilted wall hangings to persons whose homes have been destroyed by disaster, and have received a new or rebuilt home through Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS). |
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| When a home is dedicated and the home owners receive MDS's book The Hammer Rings Hope, they also receive a quilted wall hanging - a tangible connection with a Mennonite sister. Since its beginning in 2004, quiltmakers from across the United States have sent over 150 quilts thus far to MDS sites. |
See: "Quilting Needles powerful as hammers" The Mennonite, June 3, 2008.
You can be part of this Sister-Link. See guidelines for wall hangings. Read more at the Mennonite Disaster Service web site.
Current coordinator: Rebecca Sommers, Goshen, Indiana |
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Sister-Link connects women's groups globally.
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African Anabaptist Women Theologians Sister-Link concludes
A Sister-Link with the committee of African Anabaptist Women Theologians (AAWT), and Mennonite Women USA began in 2004 and concluded in 2009. Read more about the journey of this Sister-Link in Cathleen Hockman-Wert's "Moved by the Spirit."
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Women theologians from Africa and Latin America met at Mennonite World Conference Assembly in Paraguay in July 2009. See Patty Burdette's story about the women theologians' gathering in conjunction with Mennonite World Conference in Asuncion, Paraguay. |
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Sharing Gifts from Gambia to Pa.
A congregation in Pennsylvania, Cedar Street Mennonite connects with women in Gambia through Eastern Mennonite Missions and MEDA workers, Denise and Gary Williamson. See: "Gift Exchange forges transatlantic friendship" MWR June 4, 2007. |
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Sister-Link connects women's groups locally.
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A rural church in central Indiana is linked with a city church about 20 miles away. The local newspaper states, "[These groups] are developing friendships and supporting each other’s mission efforts. 'Although we live close,’ says [one woman], ‘we are in a different culture.' The Sister-Link structure has enabled the Anglo and African-American women to combine their gifts to do mission." |
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Since its beginning in 2003, close to two dozen Sister-Links have begun; many have "concluded," but continue in friendship and prayer for one another.
See Arusha-Weavers Sister-Link.
Contact us to learn about additional past Sister-Links.
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Threads of Hope Weavers: a former Sister-Link
Don't miss the beautiful handwoven gifts available for purchase by Threads of Hope, a Guatemalan weavers' cooperative previously paired in a Sister-Link with Franklin Conference women.
Your purchases provide an income for women in this cooperative. |
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