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Becker trains leaders in Asia
Categories: Web FirstLifelong pastor and educator Palmer Becker has embarked on another short-term mission assignment to Asia with Mennonite Church Canada. From Nov. 6 to Dec. 9, Becker is sharing his vision…
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Donated books arrive at ANiSA
Categories: Web FirstAlthough a rich history of Mennonite/Anabaptist presence is evident in South Africa, Mennonite Church Canada workers Andrew and Karen Suderman discovered a lack of good quality Anabaptist resource materials for…
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What did Jesus write in the sand?
I remember once thinking that it would be fantastic if we could travel faster than the speed of light. If we could do that, we could theoretically go back…
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Learning through serving
Categories: UncategorizedLast year, during my last few months of university, I started thinking about what to do after graduation. Like many people my age, I wanted to travel and experience something…
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Learning through serving
Categories: UncategorizedLast year, during my last few months of university, I started thinking about what to do after graduation. Like many people my age, I wanted to travel and experience something…
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Seeing a need and filling it
Categories: UncategorizedCanadian Mennonite University (CMU) made headlines earlier this month when it launched its new Redekop School of Business, made possible through a donation from the Redekop family of B.C.’s Fraser…
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Young Mennos ‘occupy’ Wall Street and Winnipeg
Categories: UncategorizedMennonites have a legacy of resisting the violent, unjust ways of government and the world. Some have registered as conscientious objectors, others have protested against the justice system, and others…
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American harpist donates $8,000 to cancer research
Categories: UncategorizedVirginia Bethune, a member of Park View Mennonite Church, began a project 10 years ago that has evolved into the Build-2-Habitat-Houses-With-Music initiative. Together with her husband Dick, a retired Presbyterian…
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Sing the Christmas season
Categories: UncategorizedChristmas is a time for telling stories, and there is no better story than the Christmas story itself. Throughout history, this story has been told and retold in countless variations,…
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Music for food
Categories: UncategorizedGreat music was in the air on Oct. 15 and 16 in Winnipeg and Winkler, Man., for the inaugural Canadian Foodgrains Bank Musical Growing Project. More than 700 people attended…
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Learning about peace from those ‘who have gone before’
Categories: ArtbeatMennonite Church U.S.A. executive director Ervin Stutzman believes people today can learn from those who faced challenges over peace in the past, gaining perspective and humility as they study history.…
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A life devoted to God
Categories: UncategorizedJeff Warkentin’s passion for God shaped a life defined by service and relationships. As son, brother, husband, father, teacher, pastor, mission worker, musician and friend, he reflected God’s grace and…
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Four generations farm together to feed the world
Categories: Uncategorized“I’m really thankful for the farm,” says Justin Krahn, 13, great-great-grandson of Peter W. Rempel. He and his two siblings spend their free time playing in the century-old cottonwoods and…
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Foot washing ends climate change protest
Categories: UncategorizedAs the sounds of hymns overpowered the hum of car engines revving at a red light, a city transit bus had passengers clamouring to open windows out of curiosity about…
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Feds fund Foodgrains Bank with $125 million
Categories: UncategorizedMore assistance for more people in the developing world—that’s what a new five-year $125-million funding agreement from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) means for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. “We…
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CMU receives $10 million in private, public funds
Categories: UncategorizedOver the course of a week in October, Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) came into a total of $10 million for its new business school and a food security research project…
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Letters to my sister, Part 2
Categories: ViewpointsIn this second installment of our three-part series of back-and-forth letters, elderly twin sisters Faith Elaine Linton and Joyce Gladwell continue their conversation on the topic of homosexuality. (See Part…
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Yet another outspoken white man
Categories: ViewpointsI wonder if it’s enough to be an outspoken white man. In my early years of Christian zeal, I learned from radio host and author James Dobson that men and…
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Rethinking Jerusalem
Categories: ViewpointsI recall watching footage of the 1994 Rwandan genocide from the comfort of my living room. Images of machete-wielding young people have staying power in the personal video recorder that…
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Readers write
Categories: ViewpointsShould governments fund spiritual care? Re: “Financial crisis looms,” Sept 19, page 22. Part of my professional responsibility as corporate services vice-president/chief financial officer for South Eastman Health Inc. is…
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