75 Candles for 75 Years
Citing a “strong history of pitching in” at Rockway Mennonite Collegiate, David Martin, executive minister of Mennonite Church Eastern Canada, announced a $250,000 grant to Rockway, with the vision of making the school more accessible for students from the regional church’s first-generation Canadian congregations. Inspired by the grant, Rockway launched a year-long fundraising campaign of…
Workshop explores land, community, reparation
An interfaith workshop drew more than 80 registered participants to Peace Church on 52nd on Feb. 7 and 8 to learn about “The cost of colonialism: The joy of jubilee.” Steve Heinrichs, director of Mennonite Church Canada’s Indigenous-Settler Relations, was the facilitator for the event and its main speaker. Heinrichs is passionate about the church’s…
Coming together over Deuteronomy
Five Mennonite Church Saskatchewan congregations collaborated recently to provide a weekend of learning for their members. Aberdeen, Eigenheim, Rosthern, Tiefengrund and Zoar Mennonite churches invited Gerald Gerbrandt, president emeritus and professor emeritus at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) in Winnipeg, to present a short course, “Deuteronomy as a sermon for the church today.” His course is…
‘Who will answer the call?’
Leaders from Edmonton’s South Sudanese Mennonite Church are serving as connectors between refugees in Ethiopia and other Mennonites in Alberta. In November 2018, people from the South Sudanese community, now living as refugees in Ethiopia, made an official request for help to their compatriots in Edmonton, who belong to Mennonite Church Alberta. They put a…
Planting seeds in their community
Seeds Church celebrated its 20th anniversary on the first Sunday of 2020. But instead of throwing on party hats and revelling in the past two decades, the congregation faced forward and asked the question, “What about the next 20 years?” Seeds is a grassroots community church in Altona that was born at the turn of…
‘Jesus Christ: Our hope’
César García, general secretary of Mennonite World Conference (MWC), preached the Anabaptist World Fellowship Sunday sermon at Scott Street Mennonite Brethren Church in St. Catharines to a diverse group of Anabaptist worshippers. Entitling his sermon, “Jesus Christ: Our Hope,” he said, “On this Sunday [Jan. 26], even in the midst of deep troubles, we come…
Portrait of a strong woman
From mid-2016 to mid-2017, the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of Congo was devastated by an armed conflict. Rebel militias gathered around a traditional chief, Kamuina Nsapu, to fight against the central government. They attacked posts where security forces were located and sometimes attacked schools, churches and hospitals. An estimated five thousand people were…
