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Charles Conklin

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Mennonite Computer Scientist who God took on a long journey to become a Nonprofit Administrator. Interested in peacebuilding, holistic development, just economics, the global church, and technologies that uplift people - not commoditize them.

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Murray Lumley @satyagraha25.bsky.social · 1d

mcc.org/our-stories/... We give to MCC and the Canadian Foodgrains Bank along with our church, Danforth Mennonite Church, Toronto

Sharing peace with neighbors in Gaza amid devastation

Palestinian woman wins MCC’s 2025 Michael J. Sharp Global Peacemaker Award

Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 4d

Exactly. The Beautitudes are a better focus for our faith but even if one centers on the Torah... Zechariah 7:8-15 warns what happens if a nation ignores the Torah's call to care for the widow, the orphan, the poor, and the foreigner.

Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 4d

MCC Cambodia is #recruiting for a Climate Solutions Partner Advisor. This position supports local partners in introducing, strengthening, & expanding climate solutions.

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Please share with anyone in your networks who may be interested/qualified.

Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 5d

In August we hosted an explorative trip from MCC India and MCC Bangladesh to our Peaceful Education program. This learning tour promoted the mutual exchange of knowledge and shared our approach to localizing MCC's Peace Club curriculum to the Asian context.

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Peace Club Explorative Visit Learning Tour

In August 2025, MCC India and MCC Bangladesh made an explorative visit to MCC Cambodia’s Peaceful Education in Rural Primary Schools program in Prey Veng province. This learning tour was inte…

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 22d

Oscar Suárez, MCC Cambodia, and Sin Putheary, Cooperation Committee for Cambodia, at Day 2 of #IVCO2025 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. So many great connections and learnings.

Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 22d

ECPAT presenting on the distinction between volunteering and voluntourism at #IVCO2025, outlining the Child Protection and Safeguarding dangers. The session acknowledges that voluntourism isn't going to stop and offers practical guidelines on how voluntourism could be made better through regulation.

Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 22d

So good to hear Sujin Cha from KOICA talk about the structural barriers to international volunteering faced by people with disabilities at #IVCO2025.

Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 22d

The session on "Supporting Volunteers to Access Their Work - Responding to limits on Visas and Work Permits, and other Barriers" is about to begin at #IVCO2025. One of the timely and pressing challenges facing international volunteerism - important to come together to share and collaborate.

Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 22d

Singing "In Jesus Christ We Are One Family" during the 2025-2026 SALT/YAMEN Host Family gathering at Phnom Penh Mennonite Church.

Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 22d

The "Volunteering in challenging environments - Lived experiences from the field" session at #IVCO2025. Fantastic to hear directly from current and recent international volunteers.

Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 23d

MCC Cambodia International Seek Facilitator, Oscar Suarez, shares about MCC's exchange programs as part of a panel discussion on the International Exchange of Volunteers between Civil Society Organisations at #IVCO2025.

Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · 23d

Registration yesterday at the 2025 Conference of International Volunteer Cooperation Organisations (#IVCO2025) in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

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International Forum for Volunteering in Development - Forum @volunteeringforum.bsky.social · 23d

#IVCO2025 has officially commenced with Dr Bianca Fadel from @northumbriauni.bsky.social setting the scene - Respect, Kindness, Hope. Welcome to our speakers, delegates & new Bluesky community.

#ForumStandards #VolunteeringInDevelopment #Volunteering

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Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary @ambsseminary.bsky.social · Aug 14

🌿 Do we claim nonviolence, nonresistance, active resistance or something else?

Register by Aug. 20 to save $50. https://loom.ly/i4m3Ki4

#peace #justice #nonviolence #theology #seminary #shortcourse

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David Waltner-Toews @doft.bsky.social · Aug 14

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The world's oldest chicken keeps surviving everything life throws at her | CBC Radio

Life has not always been easy for Pearl, the world’s oldest living chicken.

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Anabaptist World @anabaptistworld.bsky.social · Aug 6

About 300 Plain Mennonite youth and young adults gathered June 29 at Lime Rock Meetinghouse in Lancaster County, Pa., to hear teachings on Christian nonresistance.

Old Order youth told nonresistance is more than avoiding military service | Anabaptist World

About 300 Plain Mennonite youth and young adults gathered June 29 at Lime Rock Meetinghouse in Lancaster County, Pa., to hear teachings on Christian nonresistance.

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Anabaptist World @anabaptistworld.bsky.social · Aug 5

In an era of division and splits impacting churches and conferences around the world, unification is coming to two congregations in southwest Germany.

Two congregations cross Mennonite conference lines to unite in Germany | Anabaptist World

In an era of division and splits impacting churches and conferences around the world, unification is coming to two congregations in southwest Germany.

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · Aug 6

Attending the 13th Asian Peace Practitioners Research Conference in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Glad to meet peacebuilders - some familiar, some new - from across the region at this complex moment.

Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · Jul 26

Cluster munitions are deployed in Cambodia again. Lord have mercy.

www.thaienquirer.com/55612/thai-a...

There's been a generation of work to remove unexploded ordinance in Cambodia. Despite all of the good effort still the stories come every year of farmers & children being killed or crippled.

Thai Army Admits Use of Cluster Munitions, Citing Military Targets Despite Global Ban - Thai Enquirer Current Affairs

Latest Thailand English Online News Thai Army Admits Use of Cluster Munitions, Citing Military Targets Despite Global Ban Current Affairs - Thai Enquirer %

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Anabaptist World @anabaptistworld.bsky.social · Jul 25

The Sermon on the Mount is a collection of Jesus’ teachings that amount to theological comfort food for many Anabaptists. Yet how do the teachings hit differently when, like Jesus, you’re sharing them with the marginalized?

Five things Friday roundup: The Kingdom, inverted | Anabaptist World

What does it mean to share the gospel of an inverted Kingdom with a captive audience of urban preteens, many of whom have been discarded and further marginalized by the “kingdom” they live in?

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Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · Jul 25

Last year, Harold Rudy from Veterinarians Without Borders Canada came by the MCC office and told us about his good work on soil health in Preah Vihear province. I've been thinking those communities over the last 36 hours as the border conflict between Thailand & Cambodia escalates.

Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · Jul 17

Rest in peace, Frannie. Last month I visited a chicken therapy program at a Mennonite disability org in Taiwan. Chickens are a bit typecast here in North America but really they are amazing social creatures and fun companions. I miss having chickens around in my daily life.

Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · Jul 11

Fantastic! Great to see ADN lead a worship service and for them to promote the message that everyone feels pain and needs compassion.

Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · Jul 8

Great to see Hello Cambodia 🇰🇭 in the kids section of the sanctuary at North Star Mennonite in Drake, Saskatchewan. Love this outreach from MCC.

Charles Conklin @charlesconklin.com · Jul 8

Reading The Cat & the Toaster: Living System Ministry in a Technological Age by Douglas A. Hall with Judy Hall & Steve Daman. The call for a holistic approach to ministry brings to mind the full meaning of שׁלום.