Come alive, step away from the screen
I know how to make biscotti. I follow a recipe and it turns out fine. I like to add extra cranberries or raisins to make it chewy and give it a little tang. This is something I can make with confidence. So why did I sit through a 10-minute Internet video on how to make…
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Evangelism redefined
“True evangelical faith is of such a nature it cannot lie dormant, but spreads itself out in all kinds of righteousness and fruits of love; it dies to flesh and blood; it destroys all lusts and forbidden desires; it seeks, serves and fears God in its inmost soul; it clothes the naked; it feeds the…
Family camp becomes family’s summer highlight
A week of Family Camp at Camp Squeah turned out to be a summer highlight for the Wiens family of Abbotsford, B.C. Maria Wiens, her husband Gerhard and children Jacob and Elizabeth spent a week of their summer playing together, trying new activities, enjoying both family time and couple time, and being nurtured body and…
Camp offers unique music experience
Ontario Mennonite Music Camp is gearing up for its 29th year of music making. We’ve got a lot to offer! As always, we promise lots of music: piano, voice, winds, brass, choir, strings, and new this year, guitar. We’ll have you staying in the dormitory at Conrad Grebel University College. We’ll let you sample some…
A reason to celebrate…
As we reach the 50th anniversary of Hidden Acres, it is abundantly clear that we have reason to celebrate! A camp still surviving would be reason enough, but a still-thriving, growing facility and program is more than the brave founders 50 years ago could have dared to hope for. God’s generosity is tangible in the…
Sagamace Bible Camp hopes to reopen this summer
Nordheim Mennonite Church in the small community of Winnipegosis is Mennonite Church Manitoba’s most remote congregation. More than 275 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg and far from other area church congregations, this small church community continues to thrive. Fifty years ago, the congregation began Sagamace Bible Camp, where it has offered two weeks of camping every…
Poet struggles with Mennonite identity
Ancestral worship for Mennonite writers is a great temptation, Julia Spicher Kasdorf told a faculty forum at Conrad Grebel University College on Feb. 17 as part of the award-winning Mennonite poet’s three-day presence on campus as a visiting scholar sponsored by the Rod and Lorna Sawatsky Fund. Spicher Kasdorf, currently teaching creative writing and women’s…
WISK women’s group bridges the age divide
Committee meetings have a reputation for being necessary but tedious. But at Foothills Mennonite Church, Calgary, there is a standout exception to the rule in the Women Intergenerational from Seniors to Kids (WISK) group. “For me, the committee is the source of great excitement,” says Kate Janzen. “The WISK committee is really fun”, adds Becky…
