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Roi des Rois interested in God’s kingdom realized
Twenty-five years ago, Michel Monette was selling encyclopaedias door to door seven days a week. One of his fellow salesmen, a Mennonite Brethren man, would take Sundays off to go to a local evangelical church and would do the same Wednesday evenings for Bible study. On Halloween Eve 1991 in Rouyn-Noranda, Monette said to the…
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Winnipeg church hosts event of solidarity with Dakota Access protests
Hundreds of concerned American citizens gathered peacefully to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline and pray on Nov 26, 2016. At the same time, dozens more gathered at Home Street Mennonite Church in Winnipeg to add their voices. The pipeline raises major concerns for environmentalists and human rights activists. If completed, it will run through four…
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Customs vary among Ontario Amish
The Amish in Ontario are a diverse group, explained Fred Lichti at the fall meeting of the Mennonite Historical Society of Ontario, held on Oct. 15, 2016, at Milverton Mennonite Fellowship. Milverton is a small town a half hour west of Kitchener-Waterloo. There are 21 different Amish settlements or communities mostly scattered throughout southern Ontario.…
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‘God is leading us into this process’
“God is helping us take apart what was, in order to build something new, so that we can engage the world in more effective ways,” says Keith Regehr confidently. Regehr is the newly appointed transition coordinator for the five area churches and national church that together comprise Mennonite Church Canada. He is tasked with managing…
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Breathing together
“It is all of us together that make Mennonite Central Committee [MCC] breathe,” said Eileen Klassen Hamm, and each element of MCC Saskatchewan’s “encounter” and annual general meeting bore witness to her statement. The organization chose “Peacebuilding on the prairies and around the world” as the theme for the Nov. 5, 2016, event, which was…
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Mennonite Worship and Song Committee holds first meeting
Members of the new Mennonite Worship and Song Committee met for the first time Sept. 22 to 25, 2016, at Park View Mennonite Church in Harrisonburg, Va. A new collection of worship music is being developed by MennoMedia, in consultation with Mennonite Church Canada and Mennonite Church USA. Committee members will discern the content, taking…
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Saskatchewan women celebrate transitions
“Every transition is an invitation to journey with God,” is how Cindy Wallace ended each session with the women attending the annual Mennonite Church Saskatchewan women’s retreat last month. We gathered in the lovely setting of Shekinah Retreat Centre on the North Saskatchewan River. Even the grey, overcast skies, the threat of freezing rain and…
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MCC calls for ‘big tent thinking’
Comparing Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) to a big tent, Don Peters, the executive director of MCC Canada, described the organization as “the place where the Anabaptist community works and serves together,” at its annual general meeting in Winnipeg at the end of September 2016. However, the question on many people’s minds has been, “Can supporters…
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Huxman completes role at Grebel
On September 30, 2016, friends and colleagues of Susan Schultz Huxman paid tribute to her time as president of Conrad Grebel University College. She has accepted the presidency of Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) in Harrisonburg, Va. The appointment of Schultz Huxman at Conrad Grebel University College in 2011 represented the first time a second-generation family…
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EVI announces workshop tour
Emerging Voices Initiative (EVI) is embarking on a fall 2016 workshop tour. This group of concerned young adults hopes to encourage further discussion about the process of transitioning into a new church structure in response to Future Directions Task Force findings. (See ‘We are all responsible for what happens next’ on the decision at Assembly 2016.)…
