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A word to our digital subscribers
Categories: EditorialTwenty-five years ago, reading a magazine meant holding paper in your hands. Today, it just as easily means looking at a screen. Reading on a screen—whether it’s a smart phone,…
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Leon’s ‘fifth step’ to sobriety
Categories: OpinionThroughout my years of ministry, being involved in the Alcoholics Anonymous 12 Step program has been one of the most rewarding aspects of my work. No, I am not an…
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Two big surprises, two big questions
Categories: OpinionRecently, a Kubota utility vehicle pulled into my driveway where my sons and their friends were playing hockey. Out popped Tim Taylor, a former NHL player and two-time Stanley Cup…
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MCC boards approve five-year strategic plan
Categories: NewsMennonite Central Committee (MCC) has a loyal constituency, but its leaders don’t take the support for granted. “We can no longer assume Mennonite churches are familiar with MCC,” said…
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From Golgotha to the Pembina Valley
Categories: NewsEvery summer, more than a hundred volunteers from across Manitoba gather in the rolling hills of the Pembina Valley to bring to life the most important event of the Christian…
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Crokinole boards sold for China mission
Categories: NewsWooden game boards made in Yarrow, B.C., and a crokinole tournament at this summer’s Mennonite Church Canada Gathering 2019 have made a connection with modern-day Chinese Christians and a 16th-century…
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‘Won’t you be my neighbour?’
Categories: NewsPresbyterian minister Fred Rogers asked the question, “Won’t you be my neighbour?” every day for almost 40 years on Mr. Roger’s Neighbourhood. In the 2018 documentary of his life, Rogers…
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Peacebuilding beyond borders
Categories: NewsThe second annual Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference and Festival took place in Elspeet, the Netherlands, between June 27 and 30. It brought people together with the aim of reflecting on…
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Canoe trip deepens pastoral connections
Categories: PeopleFor three days and two nights in June, six Mennonite Church Eastern Canada pastors journeyed by canoe and camped in the wilderness of Massasauga Provincial Park, near Parry Sound, Ont.…
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A blessing from God
Categories: PeopleThe idea that Hidden Acres Mennonite Camp is a sacred space where God is at work came up over and over again at the farewell event for Campbell and Chris…
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Teaching the tabernacle
Categories: PeopleEleanor Funk has been teaching people about the tabernacle for almost 40 years. “The passion has never left,” she says. Eleanor, who lives in Saskatoon with her husband Don,…
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Frogmore stew – Amish-Mennonite version
Categories: PeopleThis recipe, that probably originates in the southern U.S., came to Ontario via the MCC meat canner and an Amish community in Ohio. Read the accompanying Gathering Around the…
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Hostess enjoys surprising her guests
Categories: PeopleVeg Weber knows how to do old-fashioned hospitality and she enjoys having people sit around her table. A few years ago, this hostess from Hawkesville, Ont., came across a recipe…
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Canadian delegates sought for GYS 2021
Applications for young adult representatives to the Global Youth Summit (GYS), to be held from July 2 to 5, 2021, in Salatiga, Indonesia, are being sought by Mennonite Church Canada’s…
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Wenger Shenk concludes nine years of service at AMBS
Sara Wenger Shenk retired from her role as president of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS), Elkhart, Ind., on June 30, after nine years in the role. Since beginning in the fall of…
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The Spirit is moving our body
Categories: EditorialI knew everything would be okay as soon as the singing started. As I sat at a table positioned behind a small tower of crates half covered in cloth—a makeshift…
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Holy Spirit fire and imagination
Categories: Feature Articles“Sing a new church into being,” sang the 300-plus people gathered for the first nationwide meeting of Mennonite Church Canada since its restructuring in 2017. Behind the blended voices was…
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Readers write: July 22, 2019 issue
Categories: OpinionHeadline ‘diminishes and sensationalizes’ church article Re: “Church ditches ‘overt religiosity’ to become ‘community resource,’ ” May 27, page 18. We were delighted to connect with John Long-hurst when he…
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Things I noticed at Gathering 2019
Categories: OpinionI didn’t used to get nervous leading singing. There were times before leading at Mennonite Church Canada’s Gathering 2019 when I was nervous. I was less nervous leading 6,500 youth and…
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Centennial celebration
Categories: OpinionNew Canadian initiatives around multiculturalism in the 1970s—celebrating anniversaries like Canada’s centennial in 1967, Manitoba’s in 1970, and the arrival of Mennonites in Manitoba in 1974—created a new energy and…
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