MDS demolishes, not builds home
Categories: Web FirstIf watching your house burn to the ground wasn’t hard enough, Carol and Stan Baldwin of Grey Highlands, ON, had to stand and watch a second time while a group…
$2.3 million for East Africa drought
Categories: Web FirstMennonite Central Committee (MCC) has surpassed its initial target of raising $1 million for the East Africa drought and is now expanding its response to the continuing crisis in Kenya,…
Is service a two way street?
It has been a few weeks since twenty of our church’s youth and young adults headed three hours north to a place called Matheson Island, but the memories are still…
Tutu: lingering effects of apartheid include “self-hate”
Categories: Web FirstRetired Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu has said apartheid had left South Africans suffering from “self-hate” which is partly to blame for the country’s vicious crime rate and road carnage. “Apartheid…
How green are we willing to go?
In her 1975 book, New Woman/New Earth, theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether wrote, “The ecological factor will be built into consumer products in some trivial way and then sold with much…
Families with Small Children Can Respond to Hunger in East Africa
Categories: Web FirstWhen a disaster like the food crisis in east Africa hits the news, how can families with young children respond? That’s the question we asked ourselves when our children were…
Church leaders seek long-term solutions to Horn of Africa food crisis
Categories: Web FirstReligious leaders say they are exploring short and long term strategies for communities to end reliance on food aid in Africa, as relief organizations continue to minister to thousands suffering…
Date set for Mennonite World Conference 2015
Categories: Web FirstThe National Coordinating Council for Mennonite World Conference’s Assembly 16 has decided dates for the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania gathering: July 21–26, 2015. The 10-member council met with MWC officers and staff…
What’s Behind the Label?
What’s Behind the Label? Food. It’s what sustains us, nurtures us, and gives us life. It gives us strength, energy, and for some, the will to live another day. But…
Some Questions
*Note: The majority of this is an excerpt from a sermon I preached at Hillside Community Church in Morden, MB on the Sunday of July 31, 2011, though the end…
Tea with Elephants
From my perch in the cement gazebo in Nazinga, the early morning sun shines on my face. I crunch my granola and sip my Lipton tea happily, waiting patiently for…
Who are we to decide?
I have been thinking about this for a long time, and the recent terrorist attack in Norway and militia banning the WFP in Somalia has finally pushed me over the…
Mennonites at the Winnipeg Folk Festival
Categories: UncategorizedDaniel Epp has been going to the Winnipeg Folk Festival (WFF), or “Folk Fest” as it’s more commonly called, for the past five years and has volunteered there for two…
Sarah Harmer saves the day
Categories: UncategorizedIf it wasn’t for Sarah Harmer, Serena Smith and Amanda Schmidt probably wouldn’t have gone to Assembly. The two young adults from Jubilee Mennonite Church in Winnipeg had never thought…
Norwegian church leader calls for prevention of violence
Categories: Web FirstDifferent faiths around the globe need to do more to promote human solidarity, said Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC), in the aftermath…
Planes for Peace
Categories: UncategorizedThese paper planes may not fly themselves to Ottawa, but even so they will deliver a message to Stephen Harper—spend less money on war. Throughout Assembly youth folded paper planes,…
Leader on the Hot Seat
Categories: UncategorizedIf you thought the weather in Waterloo was hot during assembly, it was definitely warmer where Willard Metzger was sitting during Tuesday afternoon’s “On the Hot Seat” seminar. The meeting…
“Good news . . . God dwells with us!”
Categories: Feature ArticlesAt the last worship service of Mennonite Church Canada Assembly on July 8, Nelson Kraybill reminded the congregation that some of the aboriginal people in southern Ontario moved here from…
$7.8 million now committed to East Africa drought
Categories: Web FirstTwo new projects supported by Canadian Foodgrains Bank member agencies, Mennonite Central Committee Canada (MCC) and Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC), have been added to the Foodgrains Bank response…
MCC asks $1 million for East Africa relief
Categories: Web FirstAn immediate and extended response to the current drought and food crisis in East Africa is essential for limiting the vulnerability of millions looking for enough food to survive, said…
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