Quilting across continents
Great winter warm-up By Nikki Hamm Gwala Mennonite Central Committee Manitoba For Judy Hildebrand of Crystal City, Man., brightly coloured comforters add cheer to long prairie winters. Hildebrand is a seasoned Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) comforter maker and member of the Crystal City Ladies Aid which began making comforters for MCC in the basement of…
Meet MC Canada’s new Indigenous relations coordinator
If there are places where the church is centring the voices of people on the margins, Jonathan Neufeld wants to be there. “Theologically, that’s my home,” says Neufeld, Mennonite Church Canada’s Indigenous relations coordinator. Neufeld began his work at MC Canada, based in Winnipeg, in November. He also works half-time as pastor at Charleswood Mennonite…
Cross culture: three languages, one church
Six Vancouver Mennonite congregations launched the new year by singing, praying and worshipping together in three languages. The service, held at Sherbrooke Mennonite Church on January 8, brought together 210 members from Point Grey Inter-Mennonite, Peace on 52nd, Sherbrooke Mennonite, Chinatown Peace, First United Spanish Mennonite and Vancouver Vietnamese Mennonite churches. About 40 more people…
Mennonites respond to recent military spending
From Dirk Willems loving his enemy in 1569 to Colombian Mennonites building peace today, Anabaptists have offered a bold peace witness. But being a peace church is complicated. Anabaptists got violent in Münster in the 1500s, they mounted armed self-defence units (Selbstschutz) in Ukraine in the early 1900s, many enlisted in World War II and…
Steinbach writer explores ‘Mennotoba’
Erin Koop Unger has travelled the world, but these days it’s Manitoba and the Mennonites who live there that have captured her imagination. Koop Unger is the creator of Mennotoba.com, a website where she writes about Mennonite history and culture in the keystone province. The 44-year-old Steinbach resident started the website in 2017 with her…
Soup to change the world
Trudy Enns and Tim Albrecht of the Christian Benefit Shop in St. Catharines highlight Raw Carrot soup packages in the store. (Photo courtesy of Tim Albrecht) Thrift stores sell a remarkably wide range of items, and now the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) thrift store in St. Catharines sells one more. In November 2022, the MCC…
