Mennonite Church Canada is offering online worship services for our nationwide community of faith every Sunday from June 26 to Sept. 4. Visit mennonitechurch.ca/worshipservices for details and to view the services.
Anabaptist Disabilities Network hosts the free webinar, "Dementia and Congregational Care." 1:00 p.m. ET / 12:00 p.m. CT / 10:00 a.m. PT. Dementia affects individuals, their family members and the congregation. This webinar will help you understand basics of dementia and learn how to reach out.
Voices Together Worship Leaders' Workshop on Zoom. 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ET. Anneli Loepp Thiessen and Katie Graber will provide background on worship resources in Voices Together, and the Voices Together Worship Leaders' ed., highlighting uses in worship as well as the styles, cultures, and eras they represent. They will discuss tools for understanding your community’s worship culture in order to make intentional, theologically grounded, and spiritually inspired choices about worship practices that respond to your local contexts and dismantle oppression in your communities.
Launch event for the new book Wonder World by K.R. Byggdin. 7:00 p.m. CT. The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers (Grant Park location) in Winnipeg and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream. The video will be available for viewing thereafter. More details here.
The Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies in Winnipeg presents its sixth annual lecture: "Reporting on Sexual Violence in Mennonite Newspapers." 7:00 p.m. CT. Dr. Melanie Kampen will examine the coverage of abuse in selected Mennonite newspapers from 1980 until the present, analyzing how experiences of abuse in churches and communities were reported, as well as shifts in attitudes towards women, abuse, and social and theological norms.
Mennonite Church Eastern Canada Administrators Day — A day for administrative assistants to gather from across Canada! 12:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET. Do you ever get overwhelmed by all the e-mails you have to get through? Or maybe you find it difficult to manage the mental and emotional burdens that come with certain tasks? Whatever it is, get ready because MC Eastern Canada Administrators Day is coming up soon.
Responding to congregational sexual harrassment. 1:00 p.m. CT / 2:00 p.m. ET. This webinar will launch and unpack a brand new resource developed by MCC Manitoba’s Abuse Response and Prevention Program called A Guide For Responding to Congregational Sexual Harassment and Abuse. In this online workshop, you will learn the purposes and benefits of this framework and how to best implement it in your congregation. To register go to mcccanada.ca/abuse-response-webinar.
Canadian Mennonite University invites you to participate in its virtual Spring at CMU fundraising event. Visit cmu.ca/springatcmu for details.
Mennonite World Conference invites you to an Online Prayer Hour at 9:00 a.m. (UTC -5). Join Anabaptist-Mennonites from Indonesia to Peru in one hour of prayer together in English, Spanish, French, Hindi and Indonesian. Welcome and orientation is followed by ~40 of sharing and prayer time in language-specific groups in breakout rooms. Register here.
Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary and Mennonite Church U.S.A. invite pastors and faith formation leaders to a conference titled, “Formed in the Wilderness, Leading in Hope.” Details: ambs.edu/pastorsandleaders
CommonRead Conversation with Regina Shands Stoltzfus and Tobin Miller Shearer, authors of Been in the Struggle: Pursuing an Antiracist Spirituality. 7:00 p.m. EST / 6:00 p.m. CST. Register at mennomedia.org/register-now.
You are invited to a virtual winter getaway to the Philippines at 7 p.m. CT / 8 p.m. ET. Join your guides Lakan and Lakambini (Witness workers Dann and Joji Pantoja) for a tour of communities in Mindanao. Details and registration info: mennonitechurch.ca/event/12762
Join a virtual prayer meeting with Mennonite pastors in Burkina Faso. There has been a military coup today in Burkina Faso, with the military taking control from president Roch Marc Christian Kaboré. Pastor Calixte Bananzaro, president of the Mennonite Church in the country, has asked Mennonite Church Canada to join in prayer that bloodshed would be avoided and that peace would be restored in the country. Pastor Bananzaro and his wife Noelie will speak at this meeting to share their faith stories and how this situation is affecting the church.
The Centre for Transnational Mennonites Studies presents "Reading the Russlaender in Ukraine: On Real and Literary Places" at 6:30 p.m. CT. Literary scholar Robert Zacharias will explore the Russlaender migration from the Soviet Union by considering its representation in Mennonite Canadian literature. Visit ctms.uwinnipeg.ca/events/reading-the-russlaender for details and to register.
The Grebel and UWaterloo Music Department presents a Noon Hour Online Concert at 12:30 p.m. ET. Enjoy a recital by professional musicians from the comfort of home. Details: uwaterloo.ca/music/events
The Grebel and UWaterloo Music Department presents a Noon Hour Online Concert at 12:30 p.m. ET. Enjoy a recital by professional musicians from the comfort of home. Details: uwaterloo.ca/music/events
The Grebel and UWaterloo Music Department presents a Noon Hour Online Concert at 12:30 p.m. ET. Enjoy a recital by professional musicians from the comfort of home. Details: uwaterloo.ca/music/events
The Grebel and UWaterloo Music Department presents a Noon Hour Online Concert at 12:30 p.m. ET. Enjoy a recital by professional musicians from the comfort of home. Details: uwaterloo.ca/music/events
The Grebel and UWaterloo Music Department presents a Noon Hour Online Concert at 12:30 p.m. ET. Enjoy a recital by professional musicians from the comfort of home. Details: uwaterloo.ca/music/events
The Grebel and UWaterloo Music Department presents a Noon Hour Online Concert at 12:30 p.m. ET. Enjoy a recital by professional musicians from the comfort of home. Details: uwaterloo.ca/music/events
The Grebel and UWaterloo Music Department presents a Noon Hour Online Concert at 12:30 p.m. ET. Enjoy a recital by professional musicians from the comfort of home. Details: uwaterloo.ca/music/events
Conrad Grebel University College invites you to the 2022 Bechtel Lecture in Anabaptist-Mennonite Studies. 7:00 p.m. ET. Award-winning author Sofia Samatar will give a lecture titled, "On Dwelling: Shelters in Place and Time." Details and registration information: uwaterloo.ca/grebel/events/lecture-series/bechtel-lectures
Canadian Mennonite University presents the Renew 2022 conference in an online format. "Water from a Living Stream: Rejuvenation for Pastoring in a Complex World" will feature three scripture-rich presentations by Dr. Scot McKnight, Julius R. Mantey Chair of New Testament at Northern Seminary, to help pastors clarify or re-focus their calling. Details and registration info at cmu.ca/renew.
Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg invites you to a Virtual Open House at 6:00 p.m. CT. Come for a virtual tour of CMU's campus, live questions and answers with CMU's Admissions team, and a chance to hear from faculty and current students. After registering, you will receive a link via email to access the webinar. This is open to anyone: parents, students, siblings, teachers, and school counsellors. Register at cmu.ca/future/experience/virtual-open-house.
Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg invites you to a Virtual Open House at 6:00 p.m. CT. Come for a virtual tour of CMU's campus, live questions and answers with CMU's Admissions team, and a chance to hear from faculty and current students. After registering, you will receive a link via email to access the webinar. This is open to anyone: parents, students, siblings, teachers, and school counsellors. Register at cmu.ca/future/experience/virtual-open-house.
