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Living sanctuaries
Categories: Focus on CampsEvery night at Ontario Mennonite Music Camp we sing a closing song around the campfire to send campers off to bed. More often than not, it’s our favourite tune, “Sanctuary”:…
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A path towards reconciliation
Categories: Focus on Camps“Now I know what I should have been teaching.” These are the words of a retired history teacher after participating in a Kairos blanket exercise. As a blanket exercise facilitator,…
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Jeremy Wiens goes to Snow Camp
Categories: Focus on CampsThere are extreme weather warnings throughout the province as the wind chill dips to -40C. Yes, it’s cold, but nothing is going to stop Jeremy Wiens from going to Mennonite…
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‘Hi, let’s go join the rest of the group’
Categories: Focus on CampsStepping off that bus for the first time can be scary; it can be a big deal. The minds of many are on the edge of uncertainty and fear. If…
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Assiniboia, Koinonia: Similar but different
Categories: Focus on CampsOver the past few years, the structure of Mennonite Church Manitoba’s Camps with Meaning has undergone some major shifts. It has gone from a three-camp system to a two-camp model,…
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Rhythm and Song Camp breaks into rap
Categories: Focus on CampsAccording to camp counsellor Laura Moolenbeek, Silver Lake Mennonite Camp’s first Rhythm and Song Camp was an incredible week for campers and staff. Seven- to 16-year-olds came with a huge…
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An overview of Christianity’s ideas about God
Categories: Web First – OpinionBecause we live in a time of change and upheaval in our culture, Anthony G. Siegrist argues that the church needs to improve its biblical and theological literacy, writing, “It’s…
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MennoHomes is building A Place to Call Home
KITCHENER, ONT.—Being on a waitlist for affordable housing is like hanging on to a log out on the ocean when you can’t see the land, according to a woman named…
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MWC adds members to its global team
Categories: Web FirstA composer, health manager and auto mechanic—all church leaders—have joined the Mennonite World Conference team. These newly appointed volunteer regional representatives complete the team that helps MWC and its member…
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Great Winter Warm-up produces 9,400 comforters
Categories: Web FirstOn Jan. 18, the forecast in more than 100 locations across three continents was identical: flurries of comforters. Despite heavy snowstorms in some areas, thousands of people gathered to sew…
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Music leaders sing hymnal preview
Categories: Web FirstIn the 1980s, Ken Nafziger drew inspiration from publisher and camp association president Levi Miller, and began leading a music retreat at Laurelville. It was initially designed to develop church…
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Act before it’s too late
The man sits as he died 2,000 years ago, in a position that looks like weeping. Surrounding him are amphorae jugs used to import wine, olive oil and fish sauce…
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Coronavirus: MC Canada requests prayer
Categories: Web FirstMennonite Church Canada is inviting prayers for its ministry partners during the coronavirus outbreak, and for all of those in China and across the world who have been affected by…
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Watch: Dispatches from a SALTer in Colombia
Categories: Web FirstOur recent Focus on Education issue featured a reflection by Hannah Larson, a young woman serving in northeastern India with Mennonite Central Committee’s Serving and Learning Together program. If Larson’s…
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Preacher calls mission and service workers to Jesus-centred discipleship
Categories: NewsBruxy Cavey’s message to mission and service leaders in Anabaptist organizations was plain. “We have lost a younger generation of leaders because the church has been so divided,” he said.…
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MCC celebrates 100 years of global ministry
Categories: NewsOne hundred years ago, calls for help came from Mennonites in southern Russia, where war, disease and famine had left them in desperate straits. “Brethren! Help us, we are perishing!”…
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A life of grace and ‘holy impatience’
Categories: People“We always knew Dad was a special man,” said Chuck Kruger, “but we have come, after his passing, [to learn] more about the influence he had in many ways.” William…
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Life on the geographic fringes of MC Canada
Categories: NewsMennonite Church Canada is characterized by various geographic concentrations of churches, some thicker than others. But a few congregations exist far from any other MC Canada sisters and brothers. What…
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‘A fantastic model at Springridge’
Categories: NewsA small rural church had a 0.5 full-time equivalent (FTE) pastor. Now its pastor has retired and it decides to hire a 0.3 FTE pastor. Is this realistic? How will the…
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For 22 years it was ‘all about the residents’
Categories: PeopleGrowth, change and progress are three big words that come to mind when looking back over Linda Tiessen’s time as administrator of Leamington Mennonite Home. And after serving nearly 22…
