The new organization planned to provide aid to Ukraine via existing Mennonite relief work in Istanbul.

The Istanbul group, mainly Goshen College graduates, produced three volunteers, who at great risk entered Ukraine during the ongoing Russian Civil War.

A year passed before official permission was received from the Soviet government to do relief work among the villages of Ukraine.

Fifty Fordson tractor and plow combinations were sent to Mennonite villages to replace horses that had been stolen and confiscated during the war.

She was awarded the title Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem for her efforts to care for and protect children.

[9] It would provide young people with a way to voluntarily perform Christian service for up to a year as a means of testifying more widely to the gospel and its way of love and nonresistance.

MCC focuses its development efforts in areas such as food security and livelihoods, health, education, peace and justice, and fair trade.

MCC maintains offices in both Washington, D.C.,[12] and Ottawa[13] to advocate to the American and Canadian federal governments, respectively.

[15] MCC also takes an active role in advocating for peace both in North America and around the world, seeking "to be a witness against forces that contribute to poverty, injustice and violence.