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Manitoba congregations awarded mission grants
Categories: NewsEight Mennonite Church Manitoba congregations will receive a total of $30,000 for missional engagement in their local communities. “Finding intentional ways to love our neighbours is an important practice for…
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A summer of page-turners
Categories: PeopleAre you browsing the library shelves aimlessly, uncertain as to which book to take home? Did you spend the entire summer gardening or at the lake, unable to find time…
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‘And that’s when it happened!’
Categories: PeopleI was caught off guard when I got the call that my friend Paul Phomsouvanh was in the hospital with COVID-19 last fall. At that time, the new more contagious…
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A business built more by accident than by arrangement
Categories: PeopleChris Steingart’s journey to owning a professional web-design business was unanticipated. In 2005, he was working as a youth pastor at Waterloo-Kitchener Mennonite Church in Waterloo, Ont., and he decided…
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Foothills Mennonite Guest House closes after 15 years
CALGARY—Foothills Mennonite Guest House began 15 years ago when members of Foothills Mennonite Church noticed that families and individuals from out of town would sacrifice their savings to pay for…
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How do we declare?
In Ethiopia, almost every Mennonite church has an evangelist; in fact, there are more evangelists than pastors. Having so many evangelists has formed the church to be very outward looking.…
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Watch: A 2022 take on Jesus calling his first disciples
Categories: Web FirstArlyn Friesen Epp just made scripture a little fishier. One year ago, Mennonite Church Canada executive minister Doug Klassen asked Friesen Epp to produce a short film for Gathering 2022…
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Kentucky flood survivors need help: MDS
Categories: Web FirstFlood survivors in hard-hit eastern Kentucky need volunteers—and Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) is trying to help. “The need is overwhelming,” said Larry Stoner, MDS regional operations coordinator, describing the aftermath…
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‘We Declare’ and beyond
Categories: EditorialIn this issue you will find reports about Mennonite Church Canada’s Gathering 2022. Recently over 300 of us met in person and virtually to explore the theme, “We declare.” I…
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Gathering 2022
Categories: Feature ArticlesFor the first time since 2019, members from across the five regions of Mennonite Church Canada gathered in person for learning, inspiration and decision-making. Meeting at a conference centre in…
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Readers write: August 22, 2022 issue
Categories: OpinionPoint: Teachers are fallible, but God can use them Over the past decades, as a “dyed-in-the-wool” Anabaptist Mennonite, I have come to value the teaching/preaching of several “new Anabaptists.” Recently,…
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A season of Jubilee
Categories: Opinion“Called to proclaim good news to the poor . . . release to the captives . . . sight to the blind . . . freedom for the oppressed .…
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J.J. Thiessen
Categories: Opinion“All beginnings are hard” said J.J. Thiessen. He began his public ministry in 1930 in Saskatoon, hired by the General Conference Mennonite Church to operate the Maedchenheim, helping young women…
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Can we see it?
Categories: OpinionIt’s a summer of church gatherings. It’s a summer of truth-telling about the devastating impact of colonization by the church. It’s a summer of reflection on what it means to…
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Sharing across languages
Categories: Opinion“Dear friends, we’re one in Jesus’ love, restored to hope, so trust him fully, he’s the Lord who calls us friends.” Voices Together’s No. 525, is a simple and lilting…
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In the tension
Categories: OpinionA couple weeks ago, I came across this verse in I Samuel 18: “David continued to succeed in everything he did, for the Lord was with him.” I stopped reading…
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A focus on rest and renewal
Categories: NewsPastors and other leaders from across the five regional churches joined together at First Mennonite Church in Edmonton for Spiritual Leaders Day, part of the Mennonite Church Canada’s Gathering 2022.…
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Volunteers at ‘We declare’: Friendly, welcoming and helpful
EDMONTON—“It’s been amazing.Everyone I called to serve came on time and with enthusiasm,” says volunteer coordinator Jan Wilhelm. “We had willing and capable volunteers and gracious participants.” Wilhelm was part…
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‘Do you hear what I hear?’
Categories: NewsWho has ever been a young adult? Who has ever interacted with a young adult at church? Who has witnessed a young adult leaving church? Who has witnessed a young…
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In This Together aims to widen the circle of inclusion
Categories: News“In This Together [ITT] is one way to feel those prophetic nudgings of the Spirit,” said Alissa Bender, pastor of Hamilton (Ont.) Mennonite Church, and a member of the ITT…
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