Resurrection hopes for a once-shared ministry
Kansas was not an exotic place to hold annual orientations for Mennonite Voluntary Service (MVS). Yet when MVS was a shared U.S.-Canada program, Brad Reimer and Miles Reimer, two of its leaders living on opposite sides of the 49th parallel, considered the gathering a highlight. Miles, MVS’s director for the American side from 1996 through…
AMBS celebrates the Class of 2019
GOSHEN, Indiana — Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) celebrated the achievements of 20 graduates earlier this month at its 73rd commencement service. The graduating class included two Canadians, as well as eighteen students from eight other countries — Australia, Germany, Ethiopia, Honduras, India, Japan, South Korea and the United States — on five continents. The…
Watch: Foothills bids Doug Klassen farewell
Foothills Mennonite Church in Calgary, Alta. recently said goodbye to pastor Doug Klassen and his wife, Rose. After 20 years of ministry at the church, the Klassens are headed to Winnipeg. Doug will begin his new role as executive minister of Mennonite Church Canada on June 1. Watch a short video from May 12, the Klassens’ final Sunday…
MCC assisting after Cyclone Idai
Issa Ebombolo was not expecting the level of malnutrition he encountered among people displaced by flooding in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai. But upon arriving in southern Malawi, where he helped distribute food and relief supplies, Ebombolo was taken aback by the dire need for food assistance. “The picture I had in mind was of…
Remembering Rachel Held Evans
When Rachel Held Evans died on May 4 at the age of 37, it shocked the thousands of people who follow her work. Through her four books, blog, social media presence, speaking events and podcast appearances, Evans “challenged conservative Christianity and gave voice to a generation of wandering evangelicals wrestling with their faith,” as the…
Watch: “I Am a Mennonite” trailer
Winnipeg filmmaker Paul Plett has announced his next project: a documentary exploring his Mennonite roots. “I’m going to retrace the steps of my ancestors and find out where I came from,” Plett says in a video he posted online earlier this week alongside a campaign to raise funds to complete the film. “Along the way,…
Watch: International Witness update
Mennonite Church Canada has released a video that provides an update on its International Witness ministry. The video was shown at regional church gatherings over the past few months and posted to YouTube. Watch it below. The video introduces viewers to MC Canada’s 11 Witness workers, summarizes the new funding model for Witness and concludes with an invitation to…
Watch: “77-76” by Royal Canoe
Winnipeg’s Royal Canoe have released a politically-charged music video for a song off its latest album, Waver. “The new video for ‘77-76’ is about history repeating itself,” the band states on its Facebook page. “We felt compelled to make a video that matched what this song is about—the alarming political shift in the past few…
Praying through the decades
A Sunday school assignment in the 1940s to exchange letters with a missionary began a Canadian woman’s lifelong investment in prayer for India. Erla Buehler. (Photo courtesy of MWC) Erla Buehler was a teenager when a Sunday school teacher at Elmira Mennonite Church in Ontario assigned her to write to Lena Graber, a registered nurse…
Watch: Raw Carrot at Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church
A social enterprise run partially out of Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church in Kitchener, Ont. was in the spotlight recently. CTV News broadcast a short segment about the Raw Carrot earlier this month. A collaboration with Mennonite Central Committee Ontario, the Raw Carrot employs people on the Ontario Disability Support Program to make gourmet soup that is…
