Achieve more through faith-based values
As a leader in the health and human services industry, resources and connections help to both achieve the best outcomes for your business and stay true to your organization’s Anabaptist roots.
A network of
Anabaptist
organizations
inspire unique
collaboration
Shared values
guide your culture
toward creative
solutions
Faith grounded
strategic business
tools and resources
advance your health
and human services
mission
Rely on MHS trusted services for:
- Strategies for more effective leadership and governance when you collaborate with peers at the annual Mennonite Health Assembly.
- A pool of member knowledge and resources to integrate shared values into your organization’s culture and get ideas from others to creatively solve governance, policy and operational issues.
- Reduced-cost medical insurance for your employees. MHS members can join the Medical Expense Plan (MEP) – a self-funded, church plan to improve employee health and manage medical expenses.
As a community, we’ll work together to help build a stronger ministry.
Vision
MHS is the go-to leader for integrating faith and work in health and human services.
Mission
Anchored in Anabaptist values, MHS inspires and strengthens health and human service ministries to fulfill their missions.
Values
Following Jesus as the Leadership Example
As Anabaptists, Jesus is the center of our faith and our model for leadership.
“It will not be so among you; but whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant,” Matthew 20:26.
Honoring One Another
We value each individual as the beloved of God. We value and support their ministries as they seek to bring healing, hope and wholeness.
“Love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor,” Romans 12:10.
Fostering Collaboration for Mutual Benefit
As Anabaptists, community is at the center of our lives. Within community, we seek the good of all through collaboration, partnership, and mutual aid.
“If then there is any encouragement in Christ, any consolation from love, any sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and sympathy, make my joy complete: be of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,” Philippians 2:1-5.
Pursuing Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
As Anabaptists, reconciliation is the center of our work. We seek peace, wholeness, and justice for and with all people.
“The second is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these,” Mark 12:31.
“Learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed; defend the orphan, plead for the widow,” Isaiah 1:17.
Inspiring Creativity and Excellence
We are all created in the image of God, the creator, and are called to serve God with excellence.
“For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life,” Ephesians 2:10.
Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if anything is worthy of praise, think about these things,” Philippians 4:8.
Bible verses from New Revised Standard Version
Not familiar with Anabaptist values?
This brief video can give you a quick overview: