Meat Canning 2025
April 22, 23 and 24
More information coming soon.
We welcome Marlene Derstine as the new Coordinator for MCC Material Resource Center. Sharon Swartzentruber has been serving MRC for the past 14 years and is retiring on April 4. Marlene will assume her new role on March 4. She has been a social worker for Bridge of Hope for the past 11 years, served on the staff of Franconia Mennonite Church, and spent 8 years doing mission work in Pueblo, Mexico with her husband, Arnold.
She is a member of Plains Mennonite Church. Marlene has three adult daughters and four grandchildren. In her spare time she enjoys gardening, knitting, reading, spending time outdoors, and family time with her children and grandchildren.
Please welcome Marlene to MRC!
Working in community, our volunteers work alongside Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) to share God’s love with people in need.
Relief kits provide valuable supplies to families whose lives have been disrupted by war or disaster. Practical gifts of soap, towels and other useful items help people know they are not alone; someone cares about them.
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Families receive hand-made comforters made by our volunteers. Donated fabric is cut into squares and sewn into tops for comforters that are knotted and bound.
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Refugees and others receive canned meat that is provided by our meat-canning process.
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Donations of cardboard, clothing, bric-a-brac, and medical equipment and books are sorted and baled in the warehouse before being sold to brokers and shipped to other countries.
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Volunteers cut donated 100 % cotton t-shirts into rag sized pieces. These rags are sold to local business people such as plumbers and mechanics.
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Sewists Needed to sew kit bags and dignity kit pad holders.
The Harleysville MRC is one of several MCC satellite operations. around the USA and Canada recycling, repurposing and providing necessary material resources to further God’s mission.
Volunteer hours
Relief kits
Hygiene kits
cans of meat
School kits
Infant Care kits
Sewing kits
Prisoner Care kits
Comforters
Grocery Bags
Dignity Kits
The Mennonite Central Committee ships material goods that we produce and package all throughout the world to meet the needs of people living in poverty. 
Handcrafted gifts made with new and repurposed materials are made by volunteer craftspeople. Available for purchase at the Darning Egg Gifts Shop in MRC Harleysville.
Our community of volunteers is made up of people of all ages and all kinds of groups that want to serve others in the name of Christ.
The Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is a worldwide ministry of Anabaptist churches sharing God’s love and compassion for all in the name of Christ. Through its work responding to basic human needs and working for peace and justice, MCC envisions communities worldwide in right relationship with God, one another and creation.
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