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Millie, my lions and me
Categories: OpinionIn early June, a sermon was delivered by a mother-daughter team in Tiefengrund Rosenort Mennonite Church in Saskatchewan. The daughter, Abby, is 12. From time to time, the growing whiteness…
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Nationwide church experiences modest surplus
Categories: Gathering 2019A much simplified Mennonite Church Canada organization turned an expected $239,000 deficit into a surplus of $42,000 for the fiscal year ended (FYE) Jan. 31, 2019. The modest surplus was the…
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Good news of Jesus in a traumatized world
Categories: Gathering 2019The way of the missional God is that the Word became flesh and blood and moved into the neighbourhood, Elaine Heath told church leaders on June 28 at Gathering 2019’s…
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‘Firestarter stories’ spark the imagination of the church
Categories: Gathering 2019“My job is to love the people in my neighbourhood, accept them for who they are and create a safe place where they are welcome,” said Lyne Renaud, pastor of…
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Mennonite Women dissolve national ministry
Categories: Gathering 2019With tears, hugs and 67 years of memories, participants at the Mennonite Women Canada annual luncheon meeting, held on June 30, said goodbye to each other and to their national…
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Holding growth and the past in tension
Categories: Gathering 2019For the first time since Mennonite Church Canada restructured, delegates from the five regional churches met in Abbotsford, B.C., to discuss the future of the nationwide church body. Among these…
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Kids make friends at Gathering 2019
Categories: Gathering 2019“Our God is a God who makes friends,” sang children from three provinces while playing a clapping game with a partner, laughing as the refrain and the clapping got faster.…
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Mennonites find warm welcome at Indigenous theological symposium
Categories: NewsUnder the bright blue sky, on the grassy hill of Tyndale University in Toronto, situated on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Huron-Wendat peoples, Casey Church performed an…
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Not because they were male
Categories: NewsDon Neufeld shared his reflections on the themes of masculinity and Anabaptism at a “Probing the potential for peace” discussion series held at Grace Mennonite Church in St. Catharines on…
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‘Working at home is over-rated’
Categories: NewsAfter years of dreaming of a Mennonite hub in Edmonton, it finally came to pass. Mennonite organizations that were formerly in basements, spare rooms and kitchens have come together to…
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‘In this together’
Categories: NewsA sidewalk chalk sign invites people into Nutana Park Mennonite Church to ‘Prep for Pride.’ (Photo courtesy of Susanne Guenther Loewen) This wasn’t the first time Mennonites participated in the Saskatoon Pride…
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A life-long journey for freedom
Categories: NewsFor the first time in more than a century, the isolated island of Shoal Lake 40 First Nation is now connected to the rest of mainland Canada. The Indigenous community,…
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Cycling into the future
Categories: NewsWhen Philip Martin discovered several years ago that “cycling education in Canada is almost non-existent,” he set out to do something about it. With the help of his students at…
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‘The hands and feet of Jesus’
Categories: PeopleThis year, Mennonite Voluntary Service (MVS) is celebrating 75 years of placing young adults in service positions across Canada and the U.S. About 20 years ago, when the General Conference…
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A bouncer for Jesus
Categories: PeopleSo how did a 22-year-old Mennonite from France end up volunteering on the streets of Lethbridge as a bouncer for Jesus? Even he’s not sure, but he’s loving it, and…
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Mennonite and Reformed representatives seek a common witness
Categories: Web First“Reformed and Anabaptist are branches from the same tree,” said Hanspeter Jecker, a Mennonite theologian from Switzerland. “Anabaptist convictions that once were controversial—such as the voluntary nature of church membership…
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Symposium explores how to preserve Anabaptist history
Categories: Web FirstMore than 30 people from 12 countries gathered at Goshen College on June 17-19 to talk about gathering and preserving the sources that are crucial to the history of the…
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Spirituality and aging seminar nurtures courage and resilience
Categories: Web First“Old age is not for sissies,” quipped Celia McBride, one of six presenters at the annual Aging and Spirituality Seminar sponsored by the Schlegel-University of Waterloo Research Institute for Aging…
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What we say online
Categories: EditorialWhat does it mean to comment well on the internet? What does effectively communicating one’s thoughts on a web article or social media post look like? As Canadian Mennonite’s online…
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Walking with youth toward a fearless faith
Categories: OpinionIt is difficult to know what the future holds for youth ministry within Mennonite churches in Canada. Change is happening fast for some churches as they experience more immediate declines…
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