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Reclaiming the value of health-care assistants
Categories: Focus On EducationThe head of a Columbia Bible College diploma program is seeking to prove the value of health-care assistants and help raise up a new generation of them in B.C. The…
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MWC Commissions strengthen bonds of communion
Categories: Web FirstApproximately 40 leaders and members of the four Mennonite World Conference (MWC) commissions met together in the Netherlands for three days in late June for a time of face-to-face discussion,…
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Camp Squeah paddle-a-thon fundraiser reaches million-dollar mark
Categories: Web FirstRowers and paddlers in Camp Squeah’s annual paddle-a-thon reached their goal, raising over $51,000 on Sept. 21 and bringing the total over the past 21 years to just over $1…
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Watch: Manitoba Mennonites join climate strike
Categories: Web FirstMore than 10,000 people in Winnipeg joined the global climate strike last Friday, Sept. 27, including a strong showing of Manitoba Mennonites. In the video below, Moses Falco—pastor at Sterling…
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Why appreciate a pastor?
Around this time last year, someone forwarded an email to me about “Pastor Appreciation Month.” I think I vaguely knew that this was a thing, but I had no idea…
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A planet-friendly move to university residence
Categories: Web FirstThis September, Andre Wiederkehr moved into the Conrad Grebel University College residence at the University of Waterloo in a unique way—he biked. The second-year science student cycled the 90 km.…
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Watch: MEDA helps Colombian car company
Categories: Web FirstThe climate crisis is top of mind for many these days, so here’s a story about Maureauto Colombia (AVIS), a car rental company in Bogotá, Colombia that is reducing its…
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Prayer for the List of Coming Disasters
This is a prayer we are reluctant to pray because it is so hard to name what we fear out loud. We go through our days trying to pretend that…
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Disciples and citizens
Categories: EditorialA group of men and women travelled the dusty roads, meeting people, eating together, hearing stories, pondering deep sayings, seeing miracles and conversing with their leader. They asked him about justice…
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Faithful practices on a dying planet
Categories: Feature ArticlesOver the last few months, the reality of the climate crisis we are in the midst of has started to strike me in a new and terrible way. As the…
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Readers write: September 30, 2019 issue
Categories: OpinionSenior aches over ‘what the issue of LGBTQ+ has done’ Re: “Queer hymns now online,” Aug. 19, page 35. This, as I remember it, is my second letter to…
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Where heaven and earth meet
Categories: OpinionThe Temple of Heaven is one of my favourite places in China. It was the place where the emperor went several times a year to offer sacrifices and receive wisdom…
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Aylmer community store
Categories: OpinionThe Aylmer (Ont.) Mennonite Community Store and Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Aylmer Resource Centre are pictured after 1989. Both represent the response of the local community, Low German Mennonites and…
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Intentional with our time
Categories: OpinionWith fall schedules now well underway, I sense the pressure of a “busy” lifestyle creeping in on our days and cramping our summer style. I’ve chatted with many friends who…
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How to talk about money at your church
Categories: OpinionChristians give in grateful obedience to a generous God. Gratitude provides a wonderful pathway to the spiritual discipline of giving. God’s mercies to us are new every morning, and we…
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Revolutionary hospitality
Categories: OpinionWhen you search “hospitality” online, Google auto-fills with words like industry, services and tourism. You will find links to lodging, food and beverage establishments, entertainment and travel services, and hospitality…
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Finding spiritual fruits in Mennonite orchards
Categories: OpinionWhen Ly Vang was growing up on a farm in Laos, her family planted it own fruits, and her parents always said, ‘Whenever you eat fruit that tastes good, save…
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Imperilled world, imperfect choices
Categories: NewsI interviewed five people who care about climate, yet, like many of us, they take actions not backed by their beliefs. I wanted to gently pull back the veil on…
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Planting trees, nurturing a dream
Categories: NewsAs they walk the length of their 32-hectare (80-acre) property, it is evident that Wayne and Carry Dueck share a deep love for the place they simply call The Land.…
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Church garden provides produce for soup kitchen
Categories: NewsIn the summer of 2004, Joy Neufeld opened the first soup kitchen in Steinbach. Fifteen years later, Soup’s On is still serving its community and is thriving. Neufeld, a member…
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