COVID creativity: Cards, buns and wreaths
Categories: NewsLike most of the country, Alberta is experiencing, its second wave of novel coronavirus. As of early December, as many as 1,800 Albertans were contracting COVID-19 every day. With the…
Resourcing the church in transition
Categories: News“People talk about church decline,” says Ryan Siemens. “I prefer to talk about church transition.” Lately, he’s been thinking a lot about church transition, and wondering, “What are we being…
‘A monument for our resilience’
Categories: NewsJanet Bauman recently participated in a 45-minute virtual tour of the former Mohawk Institute Residential School in Brantford, Ont., with other people from St. Jacobs Mennonite Church; it fit in…
Meditations while sheltering in place
Categories: NewsEvan Kreider was scheduled to speak at Point Grey Inter-Mennonite Fellowship in Vancouver in the spring of 2020. But the pandemic put an end to that, as life as we…
Pandemic fund targets inequalities in global church
Categories: News“What a joy it is for the brothers and sisters [of the Bateke Plateau] to feel themselves a part of the larger Mennonite family,” says Reverend Seraphin Kutumbana of Communauté…
‘For God all things are possible’
Categories: NewsIn late October, Iglesia Cristiana Menonita de Colombia (IMCOL—Colombian Mennonite Church) issued a public statement declaring that there have been 60 massacres (killings of five people or more at a…
Together in Worship launches in collaboration with CommonWord
Categories: NewsWhile Mennonites across Canada and the United States eagerly await the arrival of the new hymnal, Voices Together, hundreds of online worship resources are already accessible to them through a…
Theology students learn to value varied perspectives
Categories: NewsFaculty and students in the master of theological studies (MTS) program at Conrad Grebel University College have found that conversations between those with different approaches to Christianity are a valuable…
Locked down but uplifted
Categories: News“The love from Indonesia.” For Enosh Rupamajhi, Jeu Song and Olicky Muchindu—members of the Young Anabaptist Mennonite Exchange Network (YAMEN)—the warmth of relationship from their hosts and each other is…
Candles of care for health-care workers
Categories: NewsA single flame flickered into existence in the window of a home in Steinbach, and now throughout the city—and across the country—candles send warmth to a hurting community. Grace Mennonite Church in…
Flexibility key to youth ministry
Categories: NewsThe weekly church youth group gathering, whether for service, faith discussions or recreational activity, has had to change this fall in the face of COVID-19. B.C. youth leaders are adapting…
Celebrating new beginnings at MC Eastern Canada
Categories: News“Whatever may pass and whatever lies before me . . . I will keep on singing.” These words from a praise song led by Keith Ly of Toronto Chinese Mennonite…
Zoom check-in
Categories: NewsA regional church check-in meeting last month gave members a chance to learn how Mennonite Church Alberta is faring. With the arrival of fall, when in-person meetings were prohibited, MC Alberta…
Congregation celebrates despite COVID-19
Categories: NewsAs with most celebrations during this pandemic, it was a quiet 75th anniversary celebration for St. Catharines United Mennonite Church on Nov. 1. In order to limit social contact, the…
‘Be It Resolved’ released
Categories: NewsA new anthology published by Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Canada and Mennonite Church Canada hit the press this fall. Be it Resolved: Anabaptists & Partner Coalitions Advocate for Indigenous Justice, 1966-2020…
Covenants signed linking congregations to overseas workers
Categories: NewsCongregations across Mennonite Church Canada celebrated International Witness Sunday in October. The nationwide church declared Oct. 18 to be the official day, but welcomed congregations to celebrate on whatever…
MC Eastern Canada changes pastoral misconduct procedures
Categories: NewsMennonite Church Eastern Canada staff “will now consider any ministerial sexual misconduct complaints, including anonymous and second-hand concerns, to be sufficient to open an investigation.” The decision was made after…
Searching for home
Categories: NewsHome is where one is from, where one lives, where one belongs. But for those displaced from their homes, the concept of home may be more of an illusive dream…
Choir perseveres through pandemic
Categories: NewsHedie Epp has been singing with First Mennonite Church choirs on and off for 40 years. When COVID-19 hit and the Winnipeg church had to halt all its choral activities,…
Feast of metaphors served at ‘Table talk’ conference
Categories: NewsA feast of metaphors was on the menu for Mennonite Church Canada’s inaugural study conference on the character and mission of the church and the role of worship. “Table talk: Does…
