‘You have blessed us’
After spending seven years and $8 million responding along the Gulf Coast to hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) has formally closed its last project in the region. About 70 MDS personnel, Mennonite leaders and local pastors, disaster response workers and community members gathered on May 16 at MDS headquarters in New Orleans…
Manigotagan Community Fellowship thriving
Manigotagan Community Fellowship is thriving nine years after budget restraints led to the cutting of Mennonite Church Canada’s Native Ministry program.
Migrant church grows new roots
Jenny Spenst is fascinated by her parents’ stories of life in the Soviet Union.
Migrant church grows new roots
Jenny Spenst is fascinated by her parents’ stories of life in the Soviet Union.
Church is . . .
Every Sunday evening our church hosts a community dinner. The peculiar mix of human diversity and dysfunction is beautiful. They are, in a word, authentic. What you see is what you get.
Reflections at the close of a ministry
Twelve years ago, on beginning as conference minister of Mennonite Church Eastern Canada, I described a painting of a small boat on a large body of water with these words inscribed below: “How frail my craft; how vast yon sea.” I came to this role after 18 years in Toronto, 11 of those as pastor…
Readers write
Intimate worship part of Mennonite DNA
‘This land is us’
For five years I lived and worked in the outskirts of San Salvador, El Salvador, with an organization supporting marginalized families living with HIV/AIDS. Although the agonizing combination of poverty and HIV formed a part of my daily experience, AIDS was not the main epidemic that surrounded my life. From 2004-09, El Salvador ranked first…
Dusty Bibles?
Dusting off our Bibles for assembly? If indeed they are dusty, something has gone wrong for the people of the Book.
