Our mission statement declares that we seek "to be a witnessing and serving community, ministering in the name of Christ to the needs of others wherever they may be."
Members of College Community Church are engaged in vocational ministry through teaching, medicine, public service, business, construction and other professions. Members also serve as volunteers in a variety of ministries both locally and globally. Each month we tell the story of one member's Involvement in Ministry.
Locally, College Community Church, Mennonite Brethren, through its church budget, supports the following Fresno-based ministries (most of which also have members actively serving in them):- Central California Mennonite Residential Services (CCMRS): "Providing Christ-centered support and services to persons with developmental disabilities."
- Evangel Home: "Serving homeless women and children" in the Fresno area.
- Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries (FIRM): "Working with refugees and immigrants to help them build a better life and build communities of hope in the Central Valley of California."
- KAIROS Prison Ministry: "Addressing the spiritual needs of incarcerated men, women and children, their families and those who work in the prison environment."
- Love, Inc.: "A movement of Christian churches working to show God's love to the poor and needy."
- Mama Makeka House of Hope: "To promote and support initiatives related to health, education, and community empowerment for underserved communities..." (Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central San Joaquin Valley of California).
- Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP): "To encourage and assist the church in her mission of providing an invitation to, and an opportunity for, peacemaking ... in the conflict between victims and offenders of juvenile crime."
Globally, College Community Church also supports:
- Mennonite Central Committee : "MCC, a worldwide ministry of Anabaptist churches, shares God's love and compassion for all in the name of Christ by responding to basic human needs and working for peace and justice."
- Mennonite World Conference (MWC): "A global community of Christian churches rooted in the 16th-century Radical Reformation in Europe, particularly in the Anabaptist movement."
- International Community of Mennonite Brethren (ICOMB): "The vehicle whereby Mennonite Brethren church conferences of the world express their partnership in mission and ministry."
Through Mennonite Brethren Missions and Services International, the church also supports following specific persons:
- Vic and Marty Wiens, long-standing church planters and mission educators in Brazil, now on reassignment to work more globally from a Fresno base in linking MBMSI work in Portuguese speaking countries.
- Phone Keo Keovilay, Fresno-based resource missionary and evangelist to his Khmu people both locally and internationally.
- Pascal Kulungu, Director of the Center for Peacebuilding, Leadership and Good Governance in Kinshasa, the capital of his home country of the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as chief financial officer of the Christian University of Kinshasa.