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Former Ten Thousand Villages stores in Alberta rebrand
Categories: News“What would it take to stay open?” asked members of the Edmonton Ten Thousand Villages (TTV) Society after the organization announced its closure in early January. Independently owned stores across…
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Voices Together announces No. 1 hymn
Categories: NewsAs Voices Together nears publication, the Mennonite Worship and Song Committee editorial team has assigned the roughly 750 songs across the table of contents and selected the song that will…
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Oven Omelette popular with B&B guests
Categories: PeopleDo you love food? I do! My love of cooking and experimenting with food has led me to develop many of my own recipes. A few years ago, I typed…
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Jill’s Oven Omelette
Categories: PeopleI developed this original recipe as part of a school nutrition program. Read the story behind the recipe here. Ingredients 12 large eggs 2 cups milk 1 cup grated parmesan…
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Echoes of history
Categories: PeopleWhen John Braun was contacted by a relative he didn’t know existed, it was the start of a long adventure into family history and an old language. Braun pastored Charleswood…
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COVID-19 global response fund helps Global South churches
Categories: Web FirstThe Mennonite World Conference (MWC) COVID-19 inter-agency task force has approved 21 relief proposals. Food and sanitation materials are part of all the proposals from Anabaptist member churches in Africa,…
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Church seeks to boost ‘helping fund’ for people affected by pandemic
Categories: Web FirstWindsor-Essex County in southwestern Ontario has drawn a plethora of attention during the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to ongoing outbreaks and high occurrences of infections in specific sectors, the virus is…
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Festival food: Order, pick up, enjoy!
ABBOTSFORD, B.C.—The annual Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Festival for World Relief won’t be taking place in British Columbia this year, but those longing for traditional German ethnic foods can still…
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MCC responding to explosion in Beirut
Categories: Web FirstMennonite Central Committee is responding to the explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, that caused extensive damage throughout the capital city on Aug. 4. The blast is believed to have been caused…
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Registration now open for virtual study conference
Categories: Web FirstRegistration is now open for Mennonite Church Canada’s upcoming virtual study conference. The conference, titled “Table talk: Does the church still have legs?”, will take place on Saturday, Oct. 24,…
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Shattering spears and bows
Categories: EditorialSetsuko Nakamura was 13 years old in 1945, the day American forces dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, where she lived. She recalls the horrific aftermath…
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Hope and faith . . . even when things don’t go as planned
Categories: NewsThere is a new church among the farmlands of southwestern Manitoba, but it has more than a hundred years of history. This spring, Crystal City Mennonite Church and Trinity Mennonite…
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‘Are you a pastor’s wife?’
Categories: NewsIn Vietnam it is still uncommon to see female pastors. But the president of the Evangelical Vietnamese Mennonite Church (EVMC) is a woman and also a pastor. Reverend Hong Thi…
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Worship is what I need
Categories: OpinionDuring a Zoom call a month or so ago, a pastor friend mused, “Is worship all we have left?” Our virtual meet-up—all folks involved in congregational leadership—had been sharing various…
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‘Be on our side’
Categories: NewsAcknowledging that “the church has been awakened and reawakened to racial injustice in our midst after the death of George Floyd,” MennoMedia, an agency of Mennonite Church Canada and MC…
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‘House church with a building’
Categories: NewsWith eight members, Northgate Anabaptist Fellowship of Dawson Creek is the smallest congregation in Mennonite Church British Columbia. It is also the most remote, located about 1,880 kilometres northeast of…
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From days gone by to ‘Richer Days’
Categories: NewsLike many rural congregations, Pleasant Point Mennonite Church isn’t as large as it once was. But, although small in number, the church enjoys a rich and interesting congregational life. Pleasant…
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Riverton Fellowship Circle closes its doors
Categories: NewsRiverton (Man.) Fellowship Circle decided on June 24 to close its doors, passing a motion to dissolve the church corporation and its assets. The congregation began meeting in 1985, when…
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Pastoral misconduct investigation mishandled, says complainant
Categories: NewsMennonite Church Eastern Canada should have taken action against Wilmer Martin at least two years ago, says one of the people responsible for bringing complaints against him to the regional…
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MC Alberta calls congregants to prayer with Zoom
Categories: NewsAt 7:30 on Monday mornings, members of Mennonite Church Alberta wake up to pray together on Zoom. Each participant is invited to light a candle, open a print copy of…
