You work alongside local churches, helping them with their ministries rather than planning new projects and bypassing the wisdom of local people. MCC workers must be peacemakers who hold to the biblical teaching of nonviolence. They ask you to describe your commitment to peacemaking, based on your Christian faith. They seek a clear statement from you that war is incompatible with God's call to unconditionally love others. MCC's work often happens in settings of conflict.
Peacemakers reach out to all people caught in fear, suffering, hate, oppression and violence.
Peacemaking involves reflection, prayer and an active nonviolent witness. MCC workers must adapt to a new living and working environment. This requires flexibility, a learning attitude, and a sense of humor. Workers' lifestyles should emphasize simplicity, health and respect for local ways. MCC expects all workers to be sexually celibate outside of heterosexual marriage and to follow MCC policy on tobacco, non-medicinal drug and alcohol use.