Eastern Canada churches discuss youth engagement
Categories: NewsOn Thursday, March 21, Mennonite Church Eastern Canada hosted an online forum to discuss youth engagement in church. Leading up to the forum, two MC Eastern Canada pastors shared about…
Church communities find solace amid tragic deaths
Categories: NewsAfter our January 28 Sunday morning worship service at Aberdeen Mennonite Church in Winnipeg, our congregation, together with St. Kateri Tekakwitha Catholic Indigenous Church, from whom we rent worship space,…
Camps with Meaning aims to raise $8.6 million
Categories: NewsThings are heating up as Mennonite Church Manitoba’s camping ministry gets set to launch its “Light the Fire” capital campaign. Camps with Meaning aims to raise $8.6 million for projects…
Doing church conflict well: Q&A with Janet Schmidt
Categories: NewsJanet Schmidt has worked in mediation, facilitation, coaching and training for 35-plus years. She also taught related university courses from 1994 to 2009. Schmidt attends River East Church in Winnipeg.…
Over 1,000 Mennonites killed in Ethiopia
Categories: NewsLet us pray Violence has devastated Meserete Kristos Church (MKC), the Mennonite body in Ethiopia. As of February 12, armed groups had burned 49 MKC churches to the ground, looted…
Congregation steps up in absence of pastor
Categories: NewsWhen the people of Danforth Mennonite Church in Toronto realized they needed to carry on without a pastor, they took a closer look at “the things that a pastor really…
Beyond revenge: The story of Maoz Inon
Categories: NewsMaoz Inon is an Israeli Jewish social entrepreneur and peace advocate. During a February online event—Part I of the Peace & Possibility events—he shared the story of his parents being…
‘Stuck together’ at MCBC AGM
Categories: NewsWith the theme of “Stuck Together,” delegates from all 23 congregations rejoiced together, wrestled with a budget deficit and welcomed a new church plant at the 2024 Mennonite Church B.C.…
‘What do you do with an unjust benefit?’
Categories: NewsFor John Stoesz, making land reparations to Indigenous communities is a way to follow Jesus. In 2012, Stoesz’s family sold his grandparents’ farm near Mountain Lake, Minnesota. Stoesz returned half…
The meaning of seeds
Categories: NewsAt 9 a.m., it was already hot and humid in Hopelchén, a small city in the Yucatán peninsula. A collective of Maya farmers had gathered in the shaded courtyard outside…
Saskatchewan sidesteps First Nations in selling Crown land
Categories: NewsFirst Nations in Saskatchewan are in conflict with the provincial government regarding the sale of Crown land. Indigenous peoples in the province have treaty rights to use government-owned land…
Giving back to the land
Categories: NewsOur farmyard opened from its treelines to the south and southwest. A mile south, I could see the shelterbelts surrounding my paternal grandmother’s 1870s homestead. A few farmyards were dotted…
A spiritual covenant with churches and First Nations
Categories: NewsA most promising possibility for a tangible response by churches to past injustice in the Six Nations Grand River lands conflict came from a conversation I had after the monthly…
Small steps toward reparation
Categories: NewsTen years ago, Adrian Jacobs of the Six Nations Haudenosaunee Confederacy proposed a Spiritual Covenant with Mennonite churches located on the Haldimand Tract. One Kitchener church is now looking closely…
Witness workers provide Thailand overview
Categories: NewsTwo Mennonite Church Canada International Witness workers are at the centre of an initiative to train, mentor and support church leaders in Thailand. Tom and Christine Poovong, together with…
New Bible school opens in Thailand
Categories: NewsThe Friends of Grace Bible School recently opened in the Issan area of Thailand. This school, supported by Mennonite Church Canada, will hold classes in the Friends of Grace Roi…
Students dream of new churches in South Sudan
Categories: NewsA recent article in Anabaptist World stated there were no known Anabaptist congregations in South Sudan. Praise God that that is no longer the case. Gatjiak (Simon) Tongyik, one of the…
Of rentals and relationships
Categories: NewsBig buildings; fewer people. It’s a fact that many Mennonite churches have fewer people involved in church life than they did 20 years ago. Many churches across Canada were constructed…
Poems and paintings mark 499th anniversary
Categories: NewsThe story of Anabaptist origins came to life on Sunday, January 21, as Gareth Brandt marked the 499th anniversary of the Anabaptist movement with a presentation of art and spoken word.…
New church launches in Kelowna
Categories: NewsThe new year has brought a new church to the Glenmore area of Kelowna, and it has given an old church building new life. Valley Road Church, a ministry of…
