International Women’s Fund
and Sister-Link

God has blessed Mennonite women around the world with gifts of teaching and leadership. Often, however, women do not have the opportunity to develop those skills through focused training. A church may send a male pastor to seminary, but funds are not available for his wife—equally involved in ministry—to attend as well.

The International Women’s Fund (IWF) is one way U.S. women work together to support our sisters around the globe as they seek to answer God’s call to ministry. By assisting women’s leadership training, the International Women’s Fund invests in the future of the worldwide Mennonite church.

You can support the International Women’s Fund through your contributions to Mennonite Women USA. 

Meet our 2007 IWF recipients.

Agencies and conferences of Mennonite Church USA are invited to recommend potential IWF recipients: see our guidelines.

Mennonite Women USA’s Sister-Link program connects women’s groups and individual women in relationships to meet needs and strengthen the church locally and globally.  Sister-Link connections are characterized by deliberate steps to develop relationships in which all participants are both givers and receivers.  All gifts are validated and cherished. 

Mennonite Women USA works with organizations including Mennonite Central Committee, Mennonite World Conference, and Mennonite Mission Network to identify opportunities for U.S. women and women’s groups to link with other women. Relationships are also emerging through conference women’s organizations. 

Read about some Sister-Link projects -- including a special new Sister-Link MW USA has formed with the African Women Theologians with a simple but beautiful goal: to see 20 additional Mennonite and Brethren in Christ women trained for church leadership by 2009.

And 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.

Groups and individual women interested in participating in Sister-Link are invited to contact MW USA executive director Rhoda Keener.