The Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) was started in the 1920's to provide humanitarian aid to starving Mennonites in Russia, a task it pursued until 1925. The goal of MCC was never to come across as a gospel preaching-priority organization but to be humanitarian, even though they attempted to portray themselves as a combination of both. After a brief period of dormancy in the 1920's, it was reactivated to help Mennonite refugees from Russia who had fled to Germany and need