The Gourmet Girls
Categories: NewsImagine if you could eat at a five-star restaurant every Saturday night, even during COVID-19. That’s what has been happening in one neighbourhood in Calgary since May 2020. A recent…
Women’s group revitalizing its place in community
Categories: News“Woven: Mennonite Women Together” is the new name of the formerly titled Mennonite Women Manitoba Working Group. The group shed its long moniker as part of its rebranding this year,…
Making a difference
Categories: NewsForty-one acres in Campden, Ont., are being cultivated, planted and harvested for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, with sponsorships of $400 an acre helping to plant a crop for the Grow…
Panel discussion explores economic justice
Categories: News“Loose the chains of injustice . . . set the oppressed free and break every yoke.” These words from Isaiah are not confined to dusty village squares thousands of years…
MC Alberta ends fiscal year with $95K surplus
Categories: NewsBrenda Tiessen-Wiens, Mennonite Church Alberta’s moderator, said “Wow!” Peter Za Zor Sang, the secretary of the Calgary Chin Christian Church, kept repeatedly asking, “How blessed were we?” And Werner De…
Canada-Colombia relations revived
Categories: NewsMennonites in Colombia and Canada are reinvigorating a 76-year-old relationship. It started last fall when Iglesias Cristianas Menonitas de Colombia (IMCOL)—the Colombian conference of 25 congregations—shared a statement about violence, suffering…
‘Think of others first’
Categories: NewsWith some Fraser Valley congregations insisting on their right to meet for public worship during the current pandemic, Mennonite Church B.C. leadership is encouraging its churches to follow current COVID-19…
Allowing God’s light to shine ‘out of us’
Categories: News“We hear God’s voice from a place of knowing who we are,” said Kirsten Hamm-Epp. In her meditation that opened Mennonite Church Saskatchewan’s annual delegate sessions, the regional church minister…
Reimagining Assembly 17
Categories: NewsFollowing the decision to offer the 2022 Mennonite World Conference (MWC) assembly in Indonesia as a hybrid event, the Program Committee members and assembly staff are now re-imagining the event…
MC Manitoba looks to the future amid a pandemic
Categories: NewsMennonite Church Manitoba’s 74th annual gathering was confined to screens this year due to the ongoing pandemic, but reports of the regional church’s work came from all over the province,…
A life-altering gospel and simple faith
Categories: NewsOver Zoom, Norm Dyck shares a photo of a church-planting map from the Nazareth-Adama region of Ethiopia. At the top is the mother church established in 1948 with the help…
Chin congregation celebrates 10th anniversary, opening of new building
Categories: News“God is so good to us,” said Pastor Leng Nawn Thang excitedly as he spoke about all the ways God has taken care of Calgary Chin Christian Church, a member…
Meet MC Canada’s Sustainability Leadership Group
Categories: NewsMennonite Church Canada is committing to improve the sustainability of its programs and ministries. “Leadership and commitment are some of the most critical pieces in helping an organization become more…
Race explored in 2021 Bechtel Lecture
Categories: NewsThis year’s virtual Bechtel Lecture, “Blackness, whiteness and the Anabaptist ‘imagined community’ in print and mission,” featured two speakers: Diana Braithwaite, an accomplished blues, gospel and jazz performer, and founder…
A dehydrator and a dream
Categories: NewsWhen the COVID-19 pandemic began a year ago, global food security networks were put to the test. In the Philippines, where Dann and Joji Pantoja serve as Mennonite Church Canada…
‘Making plans, but holding them lightly’
Categories: NewsAs the academic year draws to a close, students and staff at Columbia Bible College are reflecting on how the college has successfully navigated offering in-person learning despite the challenges…
Making the Bible come alive
Categories: NewsDeuteronomy urges people to “fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds,” and Ken Quiring has dedicated himself to this call. Telling Scripture by heart is an integral…
Celebrating 10 years of spiritual friendship
Categories: NewsThe Roman Catholic Church has a global baptized membership of 1.3 billion parishioners. Mennonite World Conference (MWC), on the other hand, has just over 0.16 of one percent of that…
Archivist shares ‘a sweet and true tale’
Categories: NewsBig city lawyers paid Old Order Mennonite women $20 an hour to bake cookies, all in an effort to gather evidence in “the cookie war.” This “sweet and true tale”…
New directions for MC B.C.
Categories: NewsAlthough faces on screens had to replace in-person contact, participants at the 2021 Mennonite Church B.C. annual general meeting, held on Zoom on Feb. 27, managed to create a sense…
