About Us

296629_2251099170312_699048373_n Founded in 2004 (originally called Missio Dei, we changed our name on October 1, 2012), the Mennonite Worker is an urban intentional community and Mennonite congregation that includes residential members and members who live nearby. We are committed to following Jesus’ way of simplicity (seeking a sustainable life with a healthy relationship to possessions), hospitality (inviting friends and strangers to share life together), prayer (being rooted in life-giving spiritual rhythms), peace (breaking our addiction to power as we get in the way of violence and injustice), and resistance (naming and challenging oppression wherever we find it as we seek to embody an alternative).

We currently operates one community house. Simone Weil House is located at 2420 11th Ave S in Minneapolis.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=525774563 Benjamin Krauß

    so, if I want to join, do I have to dress like I lived in the 1920s?

    • http://www.markvans.info/ markvans

      It helps. 😉

  • Larry Miller

    You guys are breaking new ground and I honor your commitment to intentional community and your scriptural ideals. My wife and I host many persons (homeless and Servas, Couchserving, and World Hostel, etc.) at Mashulaville Dormitory in east-central rural Mississippi. We call ourselves a Mennonite House of Hospitality. Its about time that ‘Catholic Worker models’ comes to fruitation in Mennonite Church.Larry Miller

  • Rita

    catholic workers from a mennonite perspective. yeah!

    • http://www.markvans.info/ markvans

      🙂 We try!