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MC Canada congregations offering online worship services
Categories: Web FirstMennonite Church Canada, in collaboration with its regional churches and their local congregations, will share worship services each week for congregations across our nationwide community of faith. These services are…
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Watch: Three songs to bring you solace
Categories: Web FirstEfforts to produce online worship resources have resulted in three new videos featuring music written and performed by musicians from Mennonite Church Canada. “PSALM 46” by JESSICA & MOSES FALCO Jessica…
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Outtatown students stranded in Guatemala
Categories: Web FirstWhile school and government officials work together to bring the group home, 36 students, six leaders and two program staff from Canadian Mennonite University’s Outtatown Discipleship School are waiting patiently…
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The church has left the building
Categories: EditorialRecently seen online: a quote on a black T-shirt: “The church has left the building.” The worldwide spread of the latest coronavirus has drastically changed the way we live and…
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Love in the time of COVID-19
Categories: Feature ArticlesThursday, as I sat down to a board meeting for the Micah Mission, a restorative justice organization in Saskatoon, I got the news that the Juno Awards show was being…
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Readers write: March 30, 2020
Categories: OpinionMC Canada’s ‘limbs’ are letting its ‘torso’ down Re: “A call to strengthen our core,” Feb. 17, page 4. I am disappointed by the responses of the “limbs” to the…
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Beautiful and terrible connections
Categories: Opinion“Know we are connected in ways that are terrible and beautiful.” Last week I lingered over this line in a poem by Lynn Ungar on Facebook as I pondered the…
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Thrift shopper, peacebuilder
Categories: OpinionI was walking to church for an event a few weeks back and stopped by our local Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) thrift store for my usual weekly peek and to…
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Being the church in risky times
Categories: OpinionAs relatively privileged people living in Canada, there aren’t too many times that we think about whether this action or that action might result in our death. Living in these…
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‘Greater love has no one . . .’
Categories: Opinion“Greater love has no one than to lay their life down for their friends,” said Jesus. That’s an amazing thing for anyone to do. But what about a whole village…
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What makes us Mennonite?
Categories: Opinion“Talking about ‘a’ Mennonite identity seems passé,” wrote Marlene Epp in 2018. Still, Epp, a member of a pre-eminent family of Mennonite historians, is more than willing to talk about…
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In a time of uncertainty
Categories: NewsWith the spread of the COVID-19 virus prompting provincial health authorities to recommend social distancing, including public gatherings not to exceed 250 people, Fraser Valley Mennonite churches scrambled to react…
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Heading home early
Categories: NewsWhen Pastor Siaka Traoré packed his bags for his trip to Canada and the United States in early March, it never crossed his mind that almost every event and visit…
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‘I have hope now’
Categories: NewsTwelve people from East Zorra Mennonite Church, near Tavistock, Ont., knew they would be impacted by their 10-day learning tour to the Philippines in early January. What they didn’t expect…
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Looking forward during a time of transition
Categories: News“Where are we headed? What are the challenges we are facing?” At the 2020 Mennonite Church Manitoba annual gathering, the regional church focused on these big questions it is addressing…
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A time to reminisce
Categories: NewsThe Pacific Centre for Discipleship, which owns the Menno Simons Centre in Vancouver, has decided to sell the student building and prepare to build a larger student residence on the…
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‘Nunsense’ cooks up laughs for Grebel audiences
Categories: NewsConrad Grebel University College presented Nunsense, an off-Broadway hit musical comedy, over four days in late February. This comical tale was mounted as a fundraiser for Grebel’s Fill the Table…
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A big heart filled with butter tarts
Categories: PeopleBarry Reesor is widely known for the generosity with which he shares his famous homemade butter tarts. He calls it his “butter-tart ministry.” Although he is a computer guy who…
