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Watch: Witness workers extend greetings from Ethiopia
Categories: Web FirstThe latest additions to Mennonite Church Canada’s team of International Witness workers extend greetings from their new home in Ethiopia in a new video. Werner and Joanne De Jong arrived…
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Trusting the Easter story
Categories: EditorialI have a vivid childhood memory of hearing my mother read C.S. Lewis’s book, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Chapters 14 and 15 tell the story of the…
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Called to deep hope
Categories: Feature ArticlesMary Magdalene couldn’t have known the end of the story—how things would turn out. How could she? She, and the rest of the disciples, were no different from the rest…
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Readers write: April 4, 2022 issue
Categories: OpinionMarriage is a spiritual union of soulmates Re: “God didn’t create you wrong,” Feb. 21, page 4. Nicolien Klassen Wiebe shows how Mennonite churches have been struggling with questions around…
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‘It is hard to be afraid when you understand’
Categories: OpinionOur new Voices Together hymnal invites us to expand our circle. This involves getting to know people with different abilities, cultural ways, histories, faiths and stories that shaped them. It…
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Ontario Women in Mission gathering
Categories: OpinionSpring! A time to shake off the cold and grey, decorate the church auditorium with quilts and share lunch and spiritual sustenance. This is the annual spring meeting and lunch…
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A difficulty for all of us
Categories: OpinionWar seems close to home for many of us when it hits Ukraine. My paternal grandparents (and my husband’s) fled Crimea as refugees nearly 100 years ago, getting married in…
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Good Friday and the important travel companion
Categories: OpinionCan you believe that I proposed to my wife in a cemetery? It wasn’t premeditated. We went for a walk and ended up there. That’s when it felt right. I…
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Mend our beating heart
Categories: OpinionMy grandfather, Harry Giesbrecht, referred to the country, language and people of Ukraine as his “beating heart.” The many trips back “home” breathed life into his aging lungs. The cool…
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In search of the holy grey
Categories: NewsWith the worst of the pandemic behind us—hopefully—how can the church help address the division left in its wake? Those divisions were highlighted rather starkly by the truck convoys. And…
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Out of the pews and into the community
Categories: News“We are out of the pews but in the community,” writes congregational member Olga Duran in the latest Toronto Mennonite New Life Church report, which summarizes 2021 as a year…
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Mennonite Heritage Village hosts prayer vigil
Categories: NewsOn the cold evening of March 13, about 60 people gathered outside at Mennonite Heritage Village (MHV) in Steinbach, Man. to pray for peace in Ukraine. The museum, which commemorates…
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MC Alberta delegate sessions explore challenges and look ahead
Categories: News“In spite of a global pandemic, we dared to dream,” said communications coordinator Ruth Bergen Braun in her review of the year at the Mennonite Church Alberta annual delegate sessions…
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Valleyview Mennonite honoured with award
Categories: NewsValleyview Mennonite Church has been recognized with an award for more than a decade of engagement and advocacy around food security issues in their community of northeast London, Ont. LUSO…
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MC Saskatchewan holds annual delegate sessions
Categories: NewsMennonite Church Saskatchewan held its 2022 annual delegate session (ADS) as a hybrid event, allowing for both in-person and virtual attendance. Delegates met at the Youth Farm Bible Camp just…
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Time to move
Categories: NewsThere are about a hundred Mexican Mennonite families currently living in the Niagara Region. According to Wilhelm Harder, most of these Old Colony Mennonite families came from Mexico, between 20…
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‘I didn’t have any hope it could be played again’
Categories: NewsWesley Emmelot and his wife, Maureen Parsley, lost almost everything when the Tulameen River overflowed its banks in the town of Princeton, B.C., in mid-November 2021. “There was a foot…
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Celebrating 50 years of MCC Thrift
Categories: NewsMennonite Central Committee (MCC) is celebrating 50 years of thrifting with the anniversary of the opening of the first MCC Thrift shop in 1972. The MCC Thrift network provides financial…
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International Witness workers arrive in Ethiopia after delays
Categories: PeopleAfter a number of delays, Werner and Joanne De Jong arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in mid-January in order to begin their work as Mennonite Church Canada International Witness workers…
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Nah Yo-dle: Low German Wordle
Categories: PeopleYou may have just done a double take, but no, this is not a Daily Bonnet article. A Manitoba Mennonite really did create a Low German version of Wordle, a…
