The importance of a ‘generous space’ in Manitoba
Jamie Arpin-Ricci Thousands of LGBTQ+ Christians have found community at Generous Space Ministries. Manitoba Mennonites are no exception. In fact, Pastor Jamie Arpin-Ricci is Generous Space’s director of community for central Canada. Arpin-Ricci, 43, is a pastoral leader at Little Flowers Community, a Winnipeg faith community of Mennonite Church Manitoba. He started working for Generous…
Appeal for funds garners no small potatoes
When the missions and service ministry team at Mount Royal Mennonite Church in Saskatoon was trying to identify a giving project the congregation could rally behind, it thought of the Friendship Inn. Saskatoon’s Friendship Inn provides hot meals twice daily to the city’s most vulnerable people. The non-profit organization relies heavily on volunteer labour to…
‘Help me to see how you see it’
Safwat Marzouk “I want to learn from you.” These words express the attitude in an intercultural church. Keynote speaker Safwat Marzouk encouraged this posture of openness at a recent online Pastors, Chaplains and Congregational Leaders event sponsored by Mennonite Church Eastern Canada . The Jan. 16 event featuring Marzouk, associate professor at Anabaptist Biblical Seminary,…
Teachers learn lessons, too
It’s not uncommon for Linda Bartel to meet former students while volunteering, and she’s always delighted to see them. Bartel, who is 86 years old, volunteers two or three days a week, dividing her time between the Good Neighbours Food Centre and the Mennonite Central Committee Clothes Basket in Rosthern, where she lives. In both…
