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‘There is a community of young people here’
The work being done by the Future Directions and Being a Faithful Church (BFC) task forces were the focus of the plenary sessions at the 2014 Mennonite Church Canada assembly, and so those topics were on the minds of many of the young adults at the event. More than 50 people between the ages of…
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A shaper of the church at a crucial time
Ron Sawatsky’s untimely death at age 64—shortly before the 2014 assembly of Mennonite Church Canada—prompts memories of his years of leadership in the Canadian church. For several years, he represented MC Eastern Canada on the General Board of the Conference of Mennonites in Canada (CMC). In 1997, he was called to be moderator of CMC,…
