‘Not what we planned as a 50th anniversary focus’
Categories: UncategorizedThe word spread quickly on Feb. 7 and the days that followed: Silver Lake Mennonite Camp’s dining hall had burned . . . again. The camp, near Sauble Beach on…
Don’t forget your instrument . . . or your voice
Categories: UncategorizedIt’s 11 p.m. We’ve been treated to the final program—a full, original musical about recycling prepared in two short weeks—and heard dozens of songs done by wind instruments, strings, brass,…
Family camp to debut this summer at Camp Squeah
Categories: UncategorizedSummer camp is not just for children any more. For one week this summer, Camp Squeah will be alive with the sound of voices of all ages as the camp…
Nurturing creation connections @ camp
Categories: UncategorizedCamp is the perfect place for environmental principles to be brought to life. An Arctic glacier slowly melting may be too far removed for children to fully grasp the significance…
A heart for grieving people
Categories: UncategorizedWhen it comes to the business of death, Henry “Hank” Friesen has found life in his retirement years. Friesen, 70, who spent most of his working life in sales, officially…
Let war resisters stay in Canada, rally urges
Categories: UncategorizedThe Steinbach office of Canadian Public Safety Minister Vic Toews was the scene of a mid-January rally in support of American war resisters seeking asylum in Canada that took place…
Help build a peace library in South Africa
Categories: UncategorizedPeace and justice projects in South Africa are creating a large appetite for the nonviolent peace principles of Anabaptist theology. Mennonite Church Canada Witness workers Andrew and Karen Suderman invite…
Sharing the good news of hope, peace, and justice in South Africa
Categories: UncategorizedHungry children are being fed, students of peace are learning nonviolent responses to conflict, and ordinary people are making extraordinary sacrifices to bring hope and justice to those on the…
‘That’s what we’re called to do’
Categories: Viewpoints“It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also…
Are you ready?
Categories: ViewpointsOn Aug. 13, 2010, after one month in the Foothills Hospital in Calgary, Alta., my dad died of mesotheliomameso, cancer of the outer lining of the lung. Although Dad had…
My mother’s couch
Categories: ViewpointsWaking from a nap on my mother’s couch, I stretch and think, “What a blessing.” My mother’s couch is a perfect spot for napping: generously long, wonderfully comfortable and cozily…
Readers Write
Categories: ViewpointsCelebrate the ‘kitchenhood of all believers’ Re: “East paska together and be glad,” Feb. 21, page 10. The church that I attend invites all ethnicities. We share our stories. Even…
For discussion
Categories: Feature Articles1. When did your congregation first have a woman preach a sermon or first have a woman pastor? How open was the congregation to this change? Were there surprises in…
‘I don’t have to prove anything’
Categories: Feature ArticlesThroughout her childhood and youth Martha Smith Good believed her conservative Swiss Markham-Waterloo Mennonite church north of Toronto was all about rules and regulations. “In my spirit/soul I knew there…
You don’t have to be perfect
Categories: Feature ArticlesIt was the simple yet profound welcome she received as a stranger in a Mennonite church that made all the difference to Erin Morash, who says she grew up in…
Not her gender, but her age that’s an issue
Categories: Feature ArticlesRecently ordained, Emily Toews—at 35—is the youngest female lead pastor in Mennonite Church Saskatchewan. She has served for four years at North Star Mennonite Church in Drake, and clearly enjoys…
Not a stereotype
Categories: Feature ArticlesAs far as I know, I’m the only one. I’m the only home-grown Alberta woman who left the province, studied in Mennonite institutions, and is a pastor back here. Friends…
From a closed community to an open heart
Categories: Feature ArticlesGrowing up in a very conservative Old Colony Mennonite home in the 1950s and ’60s, I soon learned that education was not encouraged. Church was meant only to attend. I…
Priesthood: A work in progress
Categories: EditorialThe church, or congregation, as a “royal priesthood” was announced as one of our core beliefs by the Anabaptist Reformers nearly 500 years ago, setting us apart from our Catholic-Protestant…
Women in ministry
Categories: Feature ArticlesCanadian Mennonite profiles the inspiring stories of women pastors from each of Mennonite Church Canada’s five area churches, beginning with Eve Isaak from British Columbia and working east to Martha…
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