Calendar

MCC Alberta fundraiser Golf Classic at Eagle Rock Golf Course, Leduc County, beginning at 8 a.m. Register at mcc.org/abgolf24

Celebrate 45 years with us! Enjoy hikes, crafts, zip line, climbing wall, wide games, tours of the Timber Lodge and Timber Frame Cabins, a special service, and of course, a simple supper of farmer sausage on a bun and a cupcake! See www.shekinahretreatcentre.org/ to pre-regisgter. 

Walk with Grassy Narrows youth and community members at 12 p.m. in Toronto in solidarity on their path to achieve mercury justice and freedom. More at freegrassy.net

Steinmann Mennonite Church Bicentennial weekend of celebration, including a bus tour, hymn sing, comfortor knotting, packing MCC Relief kits, extended Sunday service, and much more. For more details, see smchurch.ca/bicentennial-events.

Canadian Mennonite University invites all to celebrate the beginning of the academic year with Fall at CMU, 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

Leisurely walk through the market with over 30 food and craft vendors under the big white tent, enjoy music led by student talent, be amazed by the Bubble Man with your children, watch cyclists race around the winding course, play corn hole with new friends, reminisce with old ones.

New this year, enjoy a feast of choral songs (a new take on the Mennonite Saengerfest tradition) led by a choir of current CMU students and alumni on Saturday, September 21...

MCC Ontario Annual General Meeting, 7-8:30 p.m., virtual only. For the link, see mcc.org/events/mcc-ontario-annual-general-meeting

Please note: date has changed! Meeting is now Monday, Sept. 23.

The Mennonite Historical Society of Ontario has arranged for two buses to go from Waterloo to Montreal River for the installation of the plaque on September 28. Overnight accommodation in Sault Ste. Marie has been set aside for bus participants for Friday, September 27 so they can take part in the Plaque installation the next day at the Montreal River site.  The buses will then return to Waterloo.  For further details (bus costs and overnight accommodation costs), and to reserve a spot on this trip (accommodation deadline is August 27), go to ...

Join Osler Mennonite Church for a 6-week CMU Xplore Bible study the Sermon on the Mount with Michael Pahl. Held on zoom, Wed. 10:30-11:30 a.m. on Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 and Nov. 6. No need to register ahead. See cmu.ca/xplore

MCC Material Resources warehouse in New Hamburg open house, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., with games, snacks and hands-on activities for all ages.

MCBC Ladies Retreat at Camp Squeah. Linda Todd as guest speaker. Register at www.mcbc.ca

MCC Learning Tour: Travelling Together Through Truth, engaging with First Nations communities and partners of MCC Ontario’s Indigenous Neighbours program in Timmins. More at mcc.org/events/learning-tour-travelling-together-through-truth

International Witness Sunday: “Welcome to the Banquet Table: Sharing in God's Global Feast.”

Congregations across Canada are invited to celebrate relationships and gifts we share with our brothers and sisters around the globe. Resources at www.mennonitechurch.ca/IW-Sunday

Come Together, faith in action celebration in support of MCA ministries. Calgary, 7 p.m., details to come.

MC Sask and CMU present Healing Haunted Histories: Decolonizing discipleship; available for credit or audit. Register at mcsask.ca

Nov. 15: Mennonite World Conference international hour of prayer, 14:00 UTC. Register at mwc-cmm.org/en