Issue: Volume 26 Issue 16D

  • Biking and hiking raise funds for Alberta organizations

    Biking and hiking raise funds for Alberta organizations

    This summer, Alberta supporters of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) and Camp Valaqua got physical to raise funds. MCC Alberta   The group that calls itself Wheels of Waterton grew out of Ernie Engbrecht, Ron Esau and Dave Neufeldt’s love for cycling and support for MCC. In 2020, COVID-19 put a stop to the annual relief…

  • Emmaus House concludes decade of intentional community living

    Emmaus House concludes decade of intentional community living

    Rod and Susan Reynar made a huge life change in 2014 when they moved from Alberta to Manitoba and started Emmaus House, an intentional community for university students in Winnipeg. This spring, they said goodbye to their last group of students and closed their doors. Emmaus House brought ten university students together each year from…

  • Saskatchewan churches celebrate marriage and refugee sponsorship

    Saskatchewan churches celebrate marriage and refugee sponsorship

    Special celebrations were held at two congregations in Saskatchewan this summer.   Osler Mennonite Church If a 50th wedding anniversary is golden, what would 150 years be? Three couples at Osler (Sask.) Mennonite Church—Garry and Jean Harms, Dick and Kathy Braun, and Diana and Ben Buhler—recently celebrated 50 years of marriage.   Not only was…

  • Missionary to Argentina dies

    Missionary to Argentina dies

    Delbert Erb, who served God in Argentina for more than seven decades, died June 14, in Buenos Aires. “He decided that his heart and ashes would remain in Choele Choel, [Argentina],” said Rafael Stábile, pastor of the Mennonite church where Delbert and his wife Frieda Schellenberg Erb were members. Beginning his ministry in 1951, when…