Resurrecting Emmanuel
Categories: NewsIt is not unusual to hear of a small rural church closing its doors. It is, however, a rare thing to hear about a rural church reopening after being closed…
‘A different kind of ministry’
Categories: NewsA longtime B.C. pastor and church leader is making a transition to a different kind of ministry. After 30 years as a pastor, most recently of Level Ground Mennonite Church…
Graduating in a nursing home
Categories: NewsGraduation was disappointing, or non-existent, for many high-school students this year thanks to COVID-19. So Karen Chaskavich and the team at Mennonite Nursing Home (MNH) held a graduation celebration of…
MWC signs statement against nuclear weapons
Categories: NewsAugust 2020 marked the 75th anniversary of the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Mennonite World Conference (MWC) has joined a wide coalition of faith-based communities from around the…
CMU details plans for 2020-21 education and operations with framework manual
Categories: NewsCanadian Mennonite University (CMU) has released its framework for the upcoming academic year, entitled “Learning and living well in an era of pandemic.” The framework offers details for on-campus learning,…
‘This isn’t the situation we hoped for . . .’
Categories: NewsAnabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) leaders have been discerning plans for the 2020–21 academic year during the continuing COVID-19 pandemic—with the goal of giving students and employees safe access to…
‘Remember your baptism’
Categories: NewsThe final report on the Lutheran-Mennonite-Roman Catholic Trilateral Conversation on baptism has been published. The report summarizes five years of theological consultations between the three communions on the understanding and…
Voices Together sneak peeks
Categories: NewsAs MennoMedia prepares to release the full list of songs included in Voices Together before the end of August, it is releasing a sneak peek at titles contained within the…
‘Butterfly whisperer’ aids monarchs in Windsor
Categories: NewsThe human impact on climate and the Earth itself can often be seen on a massive scale. Think of the melting Arctic or check out the photographic work of Ed…
Marking end-of-life rituals during the pandemic
Categories: NewsAmid the restrictions of COVID-19, pastors and families are still finding creative and meaningful ways to mark, grieve and ritualize the deaths of loved ones. But no two funerals are…
Former Ten Thousand Villages stores in Alberta rebrand
Categories: News“What would it take to stay open?” asked members of the Edmonton Ten Thousand Villages (TTV) Society after the organization announced its closure in early January. Independently owned stores across…
Voices Together announces No. 1 hymn
Categories: NewsAs Voices Together nears publication, the Mennonite Worship and Song Committee editorial team has assigned the roughly 750 songs across the table of contents and selected the song that will…
Hope and faith . . . even when things don’t go as planned
Categories: NewsThere is a new church among the farmlands of southwestern Manitoba, but it has more than a hundred years of history. This spring, Crystal City Mennonite Church and Trinity Mennonite…
‘Are you a pastor’s wife?’
Categories: NewsIn Vietnam it is still uncommon to see female pastors. But the president of the Evangelical Vietnamese Mennonite Church (EVMC) is a woman and also a pastor. Reverend Hong Thi…
‘Be on our side’
Categories: NewsAcknowledging that “the church has been awakened and reawakened to racial injustice in our midst after the death of George Floyd,” MennoMedia, an agency of Mennonite Church Canada and MC…
‘House church with a building’
Categories: NewsWith eight members, Northgate Anabaptist Fellowship of Dawson Creek is the smallest congregation in Mennonite Church British Columbia. It is also the most remote, located about 1,880 kilometres northeast of…
From days gone by to ‘Richer Days’
Categories: NewsLike many rural congregations, Pleasant Point Mennonite Church isn’t as large as it once was. But, although small in number, the church enjoys a rich and interesting congregational life. Pleasant…
Riverton Fellowship Circle closes its doors
Categories: NewsRiverton (Man.) Fellowship Circle decided on June 24 to close its doors, passing a motion to dissolve the church corporation and its assets. The congregation began meeting in 1985, when…
Pastoral misconduct investigation mishandled, says complainant
Categories: NewsMennonite Church Eastern Canada should have taken action against Wilmer Martin at least two years ago, says one of the people responsible for bringing complaints against him to the regional…
MC Alberta calls congregants to prayer with Zoom
Categories: NewsAt 7:30 on Monday mornings, members of Mennonite Church Alberta wake up to pray together on Zoom. Each participant is invited to light a candle, open a print copy of…
