“The practice of termination without stated cause appears to have become so entrenched in the culture that is MCC. Folks that I know and trust from the 1960s up to only two or three years ago have been at the receiving end of that practice. And all of them have hit the velvet wall of silence and have not received answers or support when they were at their most vulnerable. And when talking to them now, again, the pain rises to the surface so quickly. The absence of answers and resolution decades later still sits so heavy for so many good people.

I said it in my [November 2024] letter to the CM, and I’ll say it again in this letter, the only word to describe this practice is cruel.”

A poem by Viola Fast Braun

from one who thought she knew what MCC did and stood for – a well administered organization carefully using its resources to go directly to people in need, and supporting projects that were directly applicable to the local communities. I thought MCC cared deeply for its staff…

IN THE NAME OF CHRIST

…How vastly different than the experience of John and Anicka over the past year or so. In response to their request for help in solving a problem they were fired. I couldn’t wrap my head around the behaviour of MCC, its administration arm, that is. This MCC was foreign to me. – Fired for ... what? Asking for help?

IN THE NAME OF CHRIST