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Sharing faith through teaching Sunday school
Categories: UncategorizedSome teachers want their lessons to run smoothly, but not Benjamin Weber. “I like a healthy amount of chaos,” says Weber, 29, who teaches the youth Sunday school class at…
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The power of film
Categories: Uncategorized“Watching great films is a very spiritual experience for me,” says Paul Plett. “It hits a tuning fork in [my] heart and my whole soul reverberates.” The 30-year-old, who attends…
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Into the woods
Categories: Web FirstIn June 1942, 3,000 Mennonites gathered at the Kitchener, Ont., train station to bid farewell to conscientious objectors (COs) bound for forest-fire fighting and tree-planting camps in British Columbia. The…
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Becoming the people of God is a messy business
Categories: Web FirstThe 2016 Ralph and Eileen Lebold Fundraising Dinner, held on June 2, 2016, at Conrad Grebel University College, featured Arli Klassen, chief development officer for Mennonite World Conference, who spoke…
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MCC provides resources for World Refugee Day
World Refugee Day is marked each year on June 20, the anniversary of the United Nations “1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees.” Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) has prepared…
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Mennonite church in Ontario vandalized
The deacon of the Cedarvale Conservative Mennonite Church, near Harriston, Ont., contacted police on the morning of June 3, 2016, to report that the church property was vandalized overnight. Offensive…
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Youth Assembly 2016 canceled due to low numbers
Categories: Web FirstYou planned a party for 200 people, with games geared for groups of 20. Food quantities have been tallied, and overnight lodging arranged for guests who are coming from far…
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Assembly: Pray for grace
Categories: EditorialProspects for an intense conversation on several issues appear to be gaining traction for our upcoming assembly in Saskatoon in July. The agenda features the conclusion of the Being a…
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An open letter on Future Directions
Categories: Feature ArticlesWe are a group of pastors from each of the five area churches who have gathered around the current Future Directions Task Force conversations in an effort to understand and…
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Prayer of preparation for Assembly 2016
Categories: Feature ArticlesAs delegates prepare to gather for Assembly 2016, a group of 10 pastors from across Mennonite Church Canada wrote an open letter on the Future Directions process. They write, “In…
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Readers write: June 6, 2016 issue
Categories: ViewpointsRecommendation of same-sex inclusion will lead to exodus Re: “It could soon be ‘time to run’ ” letter, April 25, 2016, page 10. This letter refers to the upcoming Assembly…
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‘Who’ before ‘how’
Categories: ViewpointsMennonites are blessed with traditions and aspirations that many admire: nonviolent peacemaking, mutual aid, voluntarism, relief efforts, generosity and so on. But these values alone do not inherently communicate the…
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Lessons from spilled milk
Categories: Viewpoints“Don’t cry over spilled milk.” This little English phrase must have been coined by a parent watching her child pour milk into a cup. When our emerging independence turns to…
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Dish washing
Categories: ViewpointsIn 1963, the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches held its annual convention in Herbert, Sask. Here, dishes were washed by hand and, of course, re-used as other delegates waited…
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In a 21st-century storm of change
Categories: UncategorizedA seminar for pastors may have begun with marine imagery, but it was the cascade of effects that happened in Yellowstone National Park in the United States that caught the…
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Saskatchewan pastors wrestle with Scripture
Categories: Uncategorized“People assume that reading the Bible should be easy,” said Derek Suderman, adding, though, “That’s not the way the Bible works.” If they are to truly understand Scripture, they must…
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‘Learning how to listen is a journey’
Categories: UncategorizedMennonite Women Manitoba organized and hosted Winnipeg’s first-ever Sister Care seminar at Bethel Mennonite Chuch in mid-May, drawing women of all ages from multiple congregations. Sister Care was developed and…
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Vancouver pastor ordained
Categories: UncategorizedLydia Cruttwell, pastor of First United Mennonite Church in Vancouver, was ordained to the ministry on Pentecost Sunday, May 15, 2016, in a joint worship service with First United Spanish…
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Disparaging ‘the Donald’ plays into his hand
Categories: Uncategorized“America is again ablaze with partisan divisiveness.” That’s how I started an article during the presidential campaign of 2012. But the days of Barack Obama battling Mitt Romney seem pedestrian compared…
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Friesen began first Canada-wide English paper for Mennonites
Categories: UncategorizedTheodore (Ted) Friesen of Altona, Man., who died at the age of 95, left behind a rich legacy of service to Mennonites in Canada. A partner with his two brothers…
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