75 Candles for 75 Years
Categories: NewsCiting a “strong history of pitching in” at Rockway Mennonite Collegiate, David Martin, executive minister of Mennonite Church Eastern Canada, announced a $250,000 grant to Rockway, with the vision of…
Workshop explores land, community, reparation
Categories: NewsAn interfaith workshop drew more than 80 registered participants to Peace Church on 52nd on Feb. 7 and 8 to learn about “The cost of colonialism: The joy of jubilee.”…
Coming together over Deuteronomy
Categories: NewsFive Mennonite Church Saskatchewan congregations collaborated recently to provide a weekend of learning for their members. Aberdeen, Eigenheim, Rosthern, Tiefengrund and Zoar Mennonite churches invited Gerald Gerbrandt, president emeritus and…
‘Who will answer the call?’
Categories: NewsLeaders from Edmonton’s South Sudanese Mennonite Church are serving as connectors between refugees in Ethiopia and other Mennonites in Alberta. In November 2018, people from the South Sudanese community, now…
Planting seeds in their community
Categories: NewsSeeds Church celebrated its 20th anniversary on the first Sunday of 2020. But instead of throwing on party hats and revelling in the past two decades, the congregation faced forward…
‘Jesus Christ: Our hope’
Categories: NewsCésar García, general secretary of Mennonite World Conference (MWC), preached the Anabaptist World Fellowship Sunday sermon at Scott Street Mennonite Brethren Church in St. Catharines to a diverse group of…
‘Mennonite’ ministry flourishes
Categories: NewsIn May 1981, the Edmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers opened its doors with 1.5 full-time-equivalent employees, one classroom and a little office. It was started by six Mennonite churches in…
Compelled by Christ to serve
Categories: News“At the railroad stations, the sight was appalling. The moment the train halted it was besieged by living skeletons. From out of the rags were lifted bare arms, the wasted…
Sharing stories that spell MCC
Categories: NewsThis year marks the 100th anniversary of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), and one Saskatchewan congregation got off to an early start in celebrating it. Osler Mennonite Church chose Jan. 26…
Making food stories meaningful
Categories: NewsMennonite farmers have a lot in common. They see themselves as stewards of the land, they live with uncertainties, and they take pride in what they produce, but they farm…
Congregation goes to the movies
Categories: NewsCrossroads Community Church sees its presence in Chilliwack, British Columbia, as a ministry to the surrounding community. Fred Rogers was a Presbyterian minister who saw his children’s television program, Mister…
Who do you support when a community is divided?
Categories: News“The province of British Columbia alongside Coastal GasLink are continuing their plans to build a pipeline through the unceded territories of the Wet’suwet’en. The five hereditary chiefs and land defenders…
Mennonite Women Canada disburses its final assets
Categories: NewsIn spite of the sadness involved in bringing the Mennonite Women Canada (MW Canada) organization to a close, Shirley Redekop, the final president, expressed confidence that “God is still at…
Preacher calls mission and service workers to Jesus-centred discipleship
Categories: NewsBruxy Cavey’s message to mission and service leaders in Anabaptist organizations was plain. “We have lost a younger generation of leaders because the church has been so divided,” he said.…
MCC celebrates 100 years of global ministry
Categories: NewsOne hundred years ago, calls for help came from Mennonites in southern Russia, where war, disease and famine had left them in desperate straits. “Brethren! Help us, we are perishing!”…
Life on the geographic fringes of MC Canada
Categories: NewsMennonite Church Canada is characterized by various geographic concentrations of churches, some thicker than others. But a few congregations exist far from any other MC Canada sisters and brothers. What…
‘A fantastic model at Springridge’
Categories: NewsA small rural church had a 0.5 full-time equivalent (FTE) pastor. Now its pastor has retired and it decides to hire a 0.3 FTE pastor. Is this realistic? How will the…
Homeless find shelter in MCC building
Categories: NewsBy day, the material aid warehouse at Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) B.C.’s headquarters is used to store and process items such as school kits and blankets to be shipped overseas.…
Three congregations leave MC Eastern Canada
Categories: NewsIn September 2019, Mennonite Church Eastern Canada reported: “We announce with great sadness that River of Life, Calvary Church Ayr (Mennonite), and Milverton Mennonite Fellowship [all in Ontario] have left…
Listening to those who have left
Categories: NewsA Mennonite elder once told me, “We need to listen to people who leave the church.” John Reimer (a pseudonym) is one such person. A soft-spoken grandpa, he recently left a…
