Deepening the meaning of baptism
Categories: NewsAfter five years of meetings by an international commission of Mennonites, Lutherans and Roman Catholics on the topic of baptism, John Rempel, the commission’s Mennonite representative, presented a trilateral report…
Saskatchewan Mennonites changed through China learning tour
Categories: News“Everything about China was not what we thought.” Delilah Roth’s words seem to capture the feelings of many in her group. Delilah and husband Brian Roth were part of a…
Toronto composer puts new twist on old fable
Categories: NewsIn May 2017, when Stephanie Martin stepped down as conductor of Toronto’s Pax Christi Chorale, the award-winning Toronto-based amateur choir with Mennonite roots, the choir gave her a going-away present.…
Final results of MC Alberta’s Vision 20/20 process revealed
Categories: NewsLike all Mennonite Church Canada regional churches, MC Alberta continues to pray and discern God’s call, moving forward after the nationwide restructuring a couple years ago. Representatives from across the…
Peacebuilders Community Inc. helps earthquake victims in the Philippines
Categories: NewsIn the last half of October, the island of Mindanao in the Philippines experienced three earthquakes, one of which reached a magnitude of 6.6. According to a Nov. 11 report…
Many people, one church
Categories: NewsOn Peace Sunday, Nov. 10, five metro Vancouver Mennonite Church British Columbia congregations gathered for a service of unity with a focus on peace. They met at Peace Church on…
Trudeau 2.0
Categories: NewsJustin Trudeau has another four years to make a mark. (Photo by the Office of the President of the United States) While many candidates in the fall election campaign appealed…
Roméo Saganash visits CMU
Categories: NewsCanadian Mennonite University (CMU) students, staff and faculty gathered on Oct. 16 to hear Roméo Saganash speak on how Indigenous political leaders are keeping up the fight to see the…
A fuller explanation of the AMBS presidential search
Categories: NewsFollowing the appointment of the next president of Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS), details are emerging regarding what led the search committee to enter an “extended discernment” period and, in…
Vietnam highlighted at MCC B.C. meeting
Categories: NewsThose who attended Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) B.C.’s 2019 annual meeting on Oct. 19 were treated to a Vietnamese cultural experience as they entered the gym at King Road Mennonite…
‘If you’re not hungry, your neighbour shouldn’t be hungry’
Categories: NewsA full house of more than 200 people gathered at the Park Theatre in Winnipeg on Oct. 15, a day before the United Nations-designated World Food Day, for the release…
Should pastors have friends in the church?
Categories: NewsWhen Don Baergen, an elder at Holyrood Mennonite Church in Edmonton, heard that Mennonite Church Alberta was hosting an Equipping Day on healthy boundaries, he decided to go since he…
Becoming a work of art
Categories: NewsTom Yoder Neufeld likens God’s work with the church to an artist who creates a beautiful work of art out of things others have thrown away. The professor emeritus of…
Chinese Mennonites persist in Edmonton for 30 years
Categories: NewsEach week, a little band of disciples known as Edmonton Christian Life Community Church meets at St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in downtown Edmonton, where many homeless people congregate. The…
A farewell to the ‘blue hymnal’
Categories: NewsOver the span of a single weekend, Sean Goerzen sang or played every single hymn in the blue-backed Hymnal: A Worship Book. All 658 of them. “I feel like I…
Praying without words
Categories: NewsA solitary candle flickers on a low table in the middle of a darkened room. Participants chat quietly with one another as they wait for the session to begin, having…
A short history of Lao Christian Fellowship
Categories: NewsAfter many years of war in and around Laos, the Laos PDR party took over in 1975, and hundreds of thousands of Laotians escaped to Thailand. Under Canada’s Private Sponsorship…
Hope in a dark world
Categories: News“Beefier barley: Climate change will boost Alberta’s barley yields with less water, and feed more cattle,” said a big billboard appearing to promote the benefits of climate change. It was…
Striking for the future
Categories: NewsMennonites took to the streets of Winnipeg on Sept. 27 with more than 12,000 others to strike for the climate. The rally was one of thousands happening around the world…
KGB archives in Ukraine now open
Categories: NewsFamily members of the tens of thousands of Mennonites detained in Ukraine during the 1930s and ’40s can now request further information through a new program at the Centre for…
