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Grace New Life Mennonite turns 25, looks to future
Categories: Web FirstAfter a quarter-century of shepherding Grace New Life Mennonite Church, Pastor Sririsach Saythavy—now in his late 50s and working two full-time jobs—is hoping a younger leader will arise to take…
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Mennonites in Brazil face diversity and challenges
Categories: Web FirstThe first Mennonites arrived in Brazil in 1930, coming as refugees from Russia/Ukraine, where their property, churches and schools were taken over by the state during the Stalin years. In…
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A refugee finds a home
Categories: Web FirstSoviet Ukraine was a traumatic place for a Mennonite kid. Peter Krause, born in 1935 and the youngest of four brothers, had to look after himself as a preschooler. Supervision…
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Videos available for Assembly 2016 reporting
Mennonite Church Canada has released two videos to help delegates report to their congregations about Assembly 2016. Links to a nine-minute video (on the adult assembly) and a two-minute video…
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Action seeks solution for Israelis and Palestinians
Categories: Web FirstOn July 9, 2016, a clear majority of delegates to Mennonite Church Canada’s Assembly 2016 voted in favour of a resolution seeking non-violent solutions to injustices in Israel-Palestine. Only one…
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Taking down our harps
Categories: Editorial“By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. On the willows there we hung up our harps” (Psalm 137: 1-2). These familiar words from the…
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Hope through lament and loss
Categories: Feature Articles“A season of change,” lament, fear, anxiety, confession, uncertainty, safe space, brave space . . . hope. Mennonite Church Canada, which held its biennial assembly, “God~Faith~People,” in Saskatoon from July…
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Ready for God’s response?
Categories: UncategorizedWith poetic grace and an invitational tone, Cynthia Wallace of Warman (Sask.) Mennonite Church challenged Assembly 2016 participants at the July 6 worship service to dream boldly and then asked…
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Covenant and law: A matter of relationship
Categories: UncategorizedOver two days at Mennonite Church Canada’s Assembly 2016, “God~Faith~People,” keynote speaker Safwat Marzouk addressed the topic of covenant that was central to the theme text, Jeremiah 31:33. During the…
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Making a case for community
Categories: Uncategorized“Too often Mennonites have focussed on disunity.” With these words, Gareth Brandt began his seminar, “Running towards community,” and he then showed how Mennonite/Anabaptist history is pockmarked with splits and…
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‘Young adults don’t need the church’
Categories: UncategorizedThe seminar title started in response to the young adult “problem.” “[‘Young adults don’t need the church’] is not meant to be a defiance statement, but a statement of fact,”…
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The future lies in the past
Categories: UncategorizedKen Quiring is convinced that the future of biblical literacy lies in video. This may be one reason why he and others like him have joined a growing movement known…
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‘We are all responsible for what happens next’
Categories: UncategorizedAlthough a concrete picture of what Mennonite Church Canada might look like in two years isn’t yet determined, 318 delegates voted to approve in principle the direction proposed by the…
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A vision for the MHC Archives and Gallery
Categories: UncategorizedDid you know that if all of the textual records and photographs in Winnipeg’s Mennonite Heritage Centre (MHC) Archives and Gallery were stacked on top of each other, they would…
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Delegates vote to allow space for differences
Categories: UncategorizedNine years of careful study, sensitive listening, deep engagement by many, but not all, congregations—and innumerable meetings of the Being a Faithful Church (BFC) Task Force—led to a large majority…
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The place of a ‘confession’ in church life
Categories: UncategorizedIn his seminar “Confessions of faith: Sources of unity or division,” Karl Koop told the story of 3,000 Mennonites who met during a five-hour meeting in Amsterdam in 1639 to…
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Looking to the future of Canadian Mennonite
Categories: UncategorizedCanadian Mennonite has been around in some form or other for 62 years, and as editor Dick Benner pointed out, the Mennonite church in Canada has witnessed many changes during…
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How the church can move creation care forward
Categories: UncategorizedFollowing on the heels of the delegate sessions for Mennonite Church Canada, about 40 interested leaders got together at Wanuskawin Heritage Park in Saskatoon to think about how to move…
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‘We’re not your stereotypical teenagers’
Categories: UncategorizedWhen an intense rainstorm started just as Mennonite Church Canada Youth Assembly 2016 participants set up their tents during the first afternoon of their canoe trip, organizer Krista Loewen was…
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Laments and hopes for MC Canada
Categories: UncategorizedWhen Laura Carr-Pries got together with fellow students at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) in Winnipeg last year to discuss the challenges facing Mennonite Church Canada, she wasn’t sure how things…
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