Foreword by Robert S. Kreider     10
Acknowledgments     13
Introduction: A Table of Sharing, by Alain Epp Weaver     14
About the Contributors     19

Part I: MCC and Patterns of Inter-Mennonite Collaboration

1  Remembering Our Dependence   ·   25
John A. Lapp

2  New Wine for New Wineskins? MCC and the Formation of MCC Canada   ·   42
Esther Epp-Tiessen

3  Turning Points, Broken Ice, and Glaubensgenossen: What Happened at Prairie Street on July 27-28, 1920?   ·   66
James C. Juhnke

4  Synergies in Mission: MCC and Mennonite World Conference   ·   84
Ronald J. R. Mathies

Part II: Imagining Mennonite Peoplehood in Canada and the United States: The Role of MCC

5  The Mystery of Broad-Based Commitment: MCC in the Eyes of Mennonites and Brethren in Christ in the United States   ·   105
Donald B. Kraybill

6  MCC’s Relationship with “Plain” Anabaptists in Historical Perspective   ·   135
Steven M. Nolt

7  Shaped by Travel: MCC and Mennonite Mobility   ·   167
Nancy R. Heisey

8  The Missiology of MCC: A Framework for Assessing Multiple Voices within the MCC Family   ·   192
Stanley Green and James R. Krabill

Part III: Race, Gender, and the Conflicted Expansion of MCC Identity

9  Whitening Conflicts: White Racial Identity Formation within Mennonite Central Committee, 1960-1985   ·   215
Tobin Miller Shearer

10  Writing Women into MCC’s History   ·   239
Beth Graybill

Part IV: Birthing New Programs: MCC as Incubator of Pioneering Projects

11  Business with a Mission: The Ongoing Role of Ten Thousand Villages within the Fair Trade Movement   ·   265
Jennifer Keahey, Mary Littrell, and Douglas Murray

12  Extending the Theological Table: MCC’s World Community Cookbooks as Organic Theology   ·   284
Malinda Elizabeth Berry

13  A “Creative Tension”:  Mennonite Central Committee,
Christian Peacemaker Teams, and the Justice Imperative, 1984-2006   ·   310
Perry Bush

Part V: MCC and the Challenges of the Humanitarian Industry

14  MCC’s Development Paradigm(s)   ·   339
Robb Davis

15  Relationships, Rights, and “Relief”: Ninety Years of MCC’s Integrated Response to Humanitarian Crises   ·   353
William Reimer and Bruce Guenther

16  Pacifism and the Responsibility to Protect: MCC and Just Policing   ·   375
Theodore J. Koontz

17  A Theoretical Framework for Understanding MCC’s Emphasis on Relationships   ·   397
Terrence Jantzi

Conclusion: The Church’s Calling to MCC for the Future   ·   419
Arli Klassen

The Index     425