Issue: Volume 27 Issue 1

  • Anabaptist Worship Network supports worship and song leaders

    Anabaptist Worship Network supports worship and song leaders

    Congregational needs for worship resources and support skyrocketed when the pandemic roared into full swing and people struggled to create meaningful worship experiences in an online world. Two Mennonite worship leaders and academics stepped in to help and, in March 2020, created the Anabaptist Worship Network (AWN), a community on Facebook to support worship and…

  • Backyard bakery creates community

    Backyard bakery creates community

    One might be able to live on bread alone, at least according to Jacquie Loewen. The resident of Winnipeg’s West End neighbourhood has spent the past year building a stone oven, learning to bake bread in it, and sharing this bread with her neighbours—all from the comfort of her own backyard. “I have a really…

  • Socks, socks and more socks

    Socks, socks and more socks

    The youth group at United Mennonite Church of Black Creek were thinking about Christmas stockings in December, but not what they would find in their own. They were all about supplying them to the less fortunate. The group, consisting of youth aged eight and up, have been collecting socks for the past seven years for…