Grebel grandma
Categories: NewsWhile cousins Adam and Owen Roth had grown to “love the Grebel community,” as first-year students at Conrad Grebel University College, one crucial thing was missing from their new lifestyle:…
Women walk through the wilderness
Categories: NewsBetween conversation and quiche, B.C. women were inspired, touched and encouraged as they heard one another’s stories at this year’s Women’s Day. The Mennonite Church B.C. annual event took place…
Ottawa group uses unique fundraising method
Categories: NewsFor more than 20 years, a refugee support group at Ottawa Mennonite Church has used an unusual fundraising method that has allowed it to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars…
Online church in 2023
Categories: NewsFrom households clustered around computer screens to sanctuaries filled with people, church services have taken a variety of forms since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic more than three years…
CPT receives International Peace Award
Categories: NewsCommunity Peacemaker Teams (CPT) was awarded the International Peace Award by the Community of Christ Church and the Shaw Family Foundation on April 22 during the church’s international conference. Honouring…
Kelowna church sells property and moves
Categories: NewsMembers of Kelowna First Mennonite Church are selling their church building, but that doesn’t mean they are closing their doors. As of May, the small congregation is meeting in a…
Two congregations withdraw from MC Manitoba
Categories: NewsIn the same year that two congregations joined Mennonite Church Manitoba, adding new member churches for the first time in a decade, two congregations have also withdrawn from the regional…
MC Alberta hosts first ever Taste of MCA event
Categories: NewsWhen most people think of Mennonite cuisine, they think of perogies and farmer sausage, or perhaps fresh rollkuchen dipped in Rogers Golden Syrup. Yet at A Taste of MCA, a…
U2’s Mennonite string section
Categories: NewsThere was nothing unusual about it when Richard, Paul and Adele Armin walked into the recording studio on New Year’s Eve in 1986. It was just another job, really. Music…
School’s out
Categories: NewsHundreds of students are preparing to graduate this month from post-secondary institutions supported by Mennonite Church Canada and its regional churches. Canadian Mennonite spoke with five students about their experiences…
First Enneagram Prison Project launches in Saskatchewan
Categories: NewsThese days, if someone asks, “What number are you?” they are likely not asking your age. The Enneagram, a personality typing system based on nine types, has exploded in popularity…
Nurse practitioner begins theological studies
Categories: NewsAlthough Wendy Dunn had long felt a nudge to pursue theological studies, she never did so until COVID lockdowns at the care home where she worked as a nurse practitioner…
Colony Mennonites threaten Indigenous lands
Categories: NewsFor many Latin American colony Mennonites, a life of isolation, farming and family is the fulfilment of God’s will, but for others, it is the destruction of sacred lands. Various…
Passion for environment, humans, creativity motivates fashion revolution
Categories: News“An estimated 92 million tons of textile waste is created annually from the fashion industry,” Fashion Revolution reported in 2020, citing Global Fashion Agenda. “Every second, the equivalent of one…
Three churches follow distinct paths as sexuality tensions shift the landscape
Categories: NewsMarch 19 was “PIE Day” at Toronto United Mennonite Church. Just before noon, attendants gradually moved out of the worship hall into the lobby for coffee and tea. Two long…
Alberta delegates meet in Pincher Creek
Categories: NewsThe most overheard phrase at the 2023 Mennonite Church Alberta annual delegate sessions in Pincher Creek was, “It’s so good to be together again!” After three years of video meetings,…
Bright and bold storybook Bible released
Categories: NewsMennoMedia has released The Peace Table, the most ambitious children’s Bible project in its history. Within the book’s 384 pages, readers will find 140 Bible stories and an abundance of…
Mennonites celebrate their global church
Categories: NewsB.C. Mennonites enjoyed a global experience on March 25 while gathering for Renewal 2023, a Mennonite World Conference (MWC) event with the theme of “Jesus Christ, our hope.” The event,…
Windsor churches support downtown drug clinic
Categories: NewsRielly McLaren has seen first hand the effects of the opioid crisis in his community and his congregation. The pastor of Windsor Mennonite Fellowship, a small urban church near the…
A story of war, immigration and connection
Categories: NewsLike a garden maze with various starting points, the story of how I became connected to the Mennonite community is the sum of several individual stories that all led to…
