Boy’s bake sale raises funds for Ukraine
Categories: NewsCliff Gusztak is a little boy with a big heart. An idea for a small cupcake stand evolved into a fundraising campaign that raised a total of $7,150 for Mennonite…
Live theatre returns to Rockway with ‘Anne’
Categories: NewsAfter a two-year hiatus, students at Rockway Mennonite Collegiate, in Kitchener, were thrilled to perform Anne of Green Gables. The two-hour play was mounted by a cast and crew spanning…
Making comforters for Ukraine refugees a community effort
Categories: NewsNiagara United Mennonite Church called its congregants and neighbourhood community together to tie comforters in the church basement on March 26. Advertisements in the local newspapers and in church bulletins…
Youths volunteer with MDS over spring break
Categories: NewsSeveral young people from Emmanuel Mennonite Church in Abbotsford, B.C., volunteered with Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) during spring break to help victims of last year’s massive flood. Family pastor Rachel…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
‘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…
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…
Unity, positivity pervade MC B.C. meeting
Categories: NewsWith the theme taken from Romans 15:13, “What gives us hope?” Mennonite Church B.C. conducted its annual meeting on Feb. 26 via Zoom. This was the second year for the…
MC Manitoba reflects on shared life together
Categories: NewsFor the second year in a row, the members of Mennonite Church Manitoba came together on Zoom screens, instead of in a church sanctuary, for their annual gathering, due to…
MCC partners in Ukraine supply essential care
Categories: NewsTry to imagine hearing air raid sirens scream out their warning. In your panic, you seek shelter. Your freezing fingers remind you of the warm coat you’ve forgotten back home.…
MC Canada issues call to eco-mission
Categories: NewsLeaders of Mennonite Church Canada are calling on the members, congregations and regional churches of the nationwide church to respond to the climate emergency. “We must act, we must act…
Defending peace, defending the climate
Categories: NewsLeadership from 18 Anabaptist organizations in the United States and Canada convened at the Anabaptist Collaboration on Climate Change (ACCC) on Jan. 26 and 27 to address what many consider…
Food waste a resource for change
Categories: NewsHumanity wastes 931 million tonnes of food each year. This figure—from the 2021 United Nations Environment Programme Food Waste Index Report—is an estimate with an admittedly wide margin of error,…
A statistical look at global wealth and poverty
Categories: NewsWe all inhabit a genuinely complicated world—a world of generosity and incomprehensible inequality. I have compiled various numbers and statistics that relate to the wealthy and the poor, and the…
