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Global Youth Summit calls young people to share gifts
Categories: Feature ArticlesThe three-day Mennonite World Conference (MWC) Global Youth Summit (GYS) concluded Sunday, July 19, with a strong call to young adults to impact the world by sharing their gifts. Under…
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Global Church Village invites visitors to leave their mark
Categories: Feature Articles“This seems like an innocent form of community graffiti,” Roland Yoder said with a smile as he watched the hub of activity around the three-dimensional sculpture of the Mennonite World…
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Women gather to explore global network
Categories: Feature ArticlesFor the first time Anabaptist women gathered from across the world to consider forming a global Anabaptist women’s network. The Mennonite World Conference (MWC) assembly, provided the occasion for regional…
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General Council fosters interdependence in global communion
Categories: Feature ArticlesIn four days of meetings just prior to the July 21-26 Mennonite World Conference Assembly, the General Council gathered with about 120 representatives from MWC member churches around the world.…
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Readers write: August 17, 2015 issue
Categories: ViewpointsTRC not a road map forward Re: “What do we take away from the TRC?” editorial, June 22, page 2. What do we take from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?…
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A word from the MC Sask moderator
Categories: ViewpointsAs the new moderator of Mennonite Church Saskatchewan, I am dealing with feelings of anticipation, apprehension, excitement and a little fear. As with the other area churches, we are an…
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Mission drift
Categories: ViewpointsIn the last couple decades, most churches caught the mission statement bug. To revisit, renew, or finally wrestle with a reason for being is crucial for any organism. As human…
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Ministry in Richmond and in the Punjab
Categories: ViewpointsI’m not exactly a new Canadian as I arrived in Vancouver back in 1989, leaving behind my hometown of Dadwan, Punjab, India. My grandparents were traditional Hindu and Sikh, but…
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How should Anabaptists celebrate 500 years?
Categories: ViewpointsMennonite World Conference held its first assembly in 1925, which was the 400th anniversary of the beginning of the Anabaptist movement. With the 500th anniversary now only 10 years away,…
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Lenore Mendes at Mennonite World Conference, 1990
Categories: UncategorizedLenore Mendes of Guatemala addresses Mennonite World Conference 12 in Winnipeg in 1990. She thought she would be speaking to a few hundred people, but was surprised to see thousands.…
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Slowing church down
Categories: UncategorizedThe Commons is starting to slow down. No, we are not retiring as a church, we just think it is time for a little different pace. The plan is to…
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MCC Global Family program goes local
Categories: UncategorizedA group of children visited a greenhouse on the last day of Bread for Success, an after-school project in Saskatoon supported by Mennonite Central Committee’s (MCC) Global Family education program.…
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Refined by fire
Categories: Uncategorized“I’m not very good at being helpless,” says Ric Driediger as he reflects on the impact Saskatchewan’s forest fires have had on his business and his life. Driediger and his…
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The luthier of La Riviere
Categories: UncategorizedPop psychology writer Malcolm Gladwell popularized the 10,000-hour rule—the notion that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to master a craft. Jeremy Hamm will tell you a different story. He…
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New definitive history of Mennonites in Ontario
Categories: ArtbeatIn Search of Promised Lands: A Religious History of Mennonites in Ontario By Samuel J. Steiner. Herald Press, 2015, 877 pages. Sam Steiner has pulled off an amazing feat. He…
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‘We’re not sitting on the sidelines’
Categories: UncategorizedYouth and young adults from all over the world went to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania from July 21 to 26 for a reunion with the global Mennonite family. We spoke with a…
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Hoping for strength and unity in spite of disagreements
Categories: UncategorizedGrowing up, Dustin Loewen was sometimes teased by his friends for being a “Mennonite poster boy.” He had a well-rounded Mennonite upbringing, attended Mennonite schools and has attended Charleswood Mennonite…
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At MWC assembly, MCC cans vegetables for first time
Categories: Web FirstMennonite Central Committee’s mobile meat canner went vegan for the Mennonite World Conference assembly, switching for one week from pork, beef and turkey to green beans. Slipping out a back…
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PA 2015 attendees seize opportunity to build MDS houses
Categories: Web FirstPounding nails may be the last activity one might expect at an international church convention, but for many at the Mennonite World Conference’s PA 2015, it was a perfect fit.…
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Assembly location a good choice
Categories: Web FirstWould the attendees of Pennsylvania 2015 accept “an occasional farm smell” in their meeting space? That’s just one of the many questions Howard Good, national coordinator of PA 2015, asked…
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