Mennonite Mission streamlines ministry

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ELKHART, Ind.—In early April, Mennonite Mission Network announced a two-year goal of reducing the annual budget by 10 percent. These temporary cuts, which will lower costs by $500,000, have enabled Mission Network to make reductions in a strategic way.

Permanent cuts of $1.3 million will be phased in over a two-year period in order to preserve $9 million of ongoing ministry. Planning reductions over a longer time period allows Mission Network to offer a generous severance policy to staff whose positions are eliminated, to reorganize departments, to implement new ways of working, and to take advantage of natural staff and worker transitions. Mission Network also has commitments to partners across the globe that may need to be renegotiated. Reductions to international ministries will be achieved largely through staff and worker retirement, and completion of assignments and reduction of grants to partners and ministries. These cost-saving measures were informed by the five-year ministry review process completed in March 2009.

Reductions to U.S. ministries are the result of a challenge from constituents to broaden ministry in the United States. Also announced were staff reductions through retirement, reassignment or eliminated positions. These staff will receive extended benefits in addition to a typical severance package.

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