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Nepal church celebrates growth
Categories: Web FirstIn 2000, the Brethren in Christ (BIC) church board of Nepal sent Bhagan Chaunde to Surunga, Jhapa, Nepal, to plant churches. The passionate evangelist shared the gospel and planted a…
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New Centre for Resilience open for business at CMU
Categories: Web FirstFaculty, students and staff celebrated the grand opening of the $1.7-million Centre for Resilience (CFR)—a co-working lab that will incubate and nurture social enterprises—on April 13, 2018. “We’re thankful for…
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AMBS and Grebel to offer sequential degree for pastoral formation
Categories: Web FirstIn North American Mennonite theological education, a regional focus is emerging, as students prefer to access seminary education closer to home. Uprooting families and finding employment for a spouse in…
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Displaced Somalis receive school kits, comforters
Categories: Web FirstMany Somali refugee families returning home after years in refugee camps lack basic items, like blankets and school supplies. In the summer of 2017, Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) shipped 10,120…
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Mennonites join in Kinder Morgan pipeline protest
Categories: Web FirstThree Mennonites were among the faith leaders who blockaded the entrance to Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby, B.C. for several hours on April 20, protesting the planned expansion of the…
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A tale of two hills outside Lalibela
Categories: Web FirstTwo hills, sitting side by side in a valley outside of Lalibela, Ethiopia, have a story to tell. One hill is brown, its vegetation stripped away by livestock and deforestation.…
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Be on the lookout for ‘pockets of joy’
Categories: EditorialIn the first week I started in this role, a former reader told me she didn’t read Canadian Mennonite anymore because it didn’t have enough joy. Ouch! We Mennonites…
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When church doesn’t feel safe
Categories: Feature ArticlesThere is a new culture in North America around sexual harassment and abuse. The social media hashtag #MeToo is everywhere, and we are starting to address abusive behaviour in…
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Readers write: April 23, 2018 issue
Categories: ViewpointsSpiritual directors thanked for their Lenten prayer guide Re: “Lenten prayer sheet reflects Lululemon spirituality” letter, March 12, page 7. The references to the Lenten prayer guide as “scriptural…
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Trusting the Spirit
Categories: ViewpointsAt our annual Mennonite Church Manitoba delegates meeting in Winnipeg in March, I concluded my time as a member of the regional church board. I served on this board as…
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Life-giving touch
Categories: ViewpointsMany years ago, a boyfriend who subsequently became my husband gave me a book about touch and its essential place in human well-being. At the time, touch was a delightful…
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Cascading generosity
Categories: ViewpointsMany of us have experienced the way generosity seems to grow when we pay it forward. This phenomenon is even backed up by scientific research, which suggests that just…
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I dare you to coach
Categories: ViewpointsAfter years of my gym membership not bearing fruit, I switched to a gym where a fitness coach leads each workout. It’s been a little over a year now, and…
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Shekinah cabin built off the grid
Categories: UncategorizedShekinah Retreat Centre recently launched an exciting new building project. The first of six planned timber-frame cabins took shape at the Mennonite Church Saskatchewan camp during the first week of…
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Church workout
Categories: UncategorizedA ladder made of masking tape sticks to the floor of the foyer of Charleswood Mennonite Church in Winnipeg. It’s not a typical sight in a worship space. Yet every…
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Is Women’s Day still relevant?
Categories: UncategorizedMennonite women in British Columbia have been coming together each spring since 1939 for Women’s Inspirational Day, a time of spiritual encouragement and fellowship. But as the planned date of…
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‘Preach it!’
Categories: UncategorizedHands on his stomach, Allan Rudy-Froese walked a group of young preachers through exercises designed to make them feel at home and centred in their bodies by learning to recognize…
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MC Alberta appoints two new Joint Council members
Categories: UncategorizedAt Mennonite Church Alberta’s annual delegate sessions in March 2018, Brenda Tiessen-Wiens and Margaret Kruger-Harder were appointed to represent the regional church on MC Canada’s Joint Council, which was created…
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Selling thrift by the pound
Categories: UncategorizedVolunteers who work at any of the many Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) thrift stores know the sorrow of unsold goods: clothing that hangs around for more than a month or…
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CPTer receives peace activism award
Categories: UncategorizedEsther Kern, a former Canada coordinator of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), received the Muriel Duckworth Award for Peace Activism at the Voice of Women for Peace International Women’s Day dinner…
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