Issue: Volume 24 Issue 14D

  • Coins count, and so do bottles

    Coins count, and so do bottles

    Every Saturday in May, Rosthern Mennonite Church members drove the streets of Rosthern, picking up bottles and other refundable beverage containers. The church’s Christian education committee normally collects $700 to $800 in loose change each May for Mennonite Central Committee’s My Coins Count project. Since the church wasn’t able to collect coins at church on Sunday…

  • I am my brother’s keeper

    I am my brother’s keeper

    Many years ago now—I’m getting a bit long in the tooth—I took what I thought would be a bird course in my second year at what was then known as Waterloo College. It turned out to be anything but, and I remember more from that course than from any other in my seven years of…

  • MC Saskatchewan launches online Sunday school for children

    MC Saskatchewan launches online Sunday school for children

    Mennonite Church Saskatchewan is offering Sunday school for children via Zoom. Josh and Cindy Wallace started hosting the half-hour sessions at the end of May. So far, about eight families, with children ranging from 3 to 10 years of age, have participated. They represent four or five congregations. Midweek, families receive a thematically appropriate craft…