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“Connected to God’s Creation” online event 6:30-8:00 p.m. hosted by Wendy Janzen, MCEC Eco-Minister, to explore how yards can be sanctuaries for bees and other pollinators.

Conrad Grebel University College presents the 2023 Sawatsky Visiting Scholar lecture, at 7:30 p.m., in-person and online Speaker: Darla Schumm of Hollins University. Title: “The power of misfitting: Disrupting sinner, saint and super-crip controlling images.”

MCC Ontario presents “Training active bystanders,” a learning session that teaches people how to respond to a violent situation when they see one. The event takes place online, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. For more info and to register, go to mcco.ca/events.

MC Eastern Canada presents “Being a restorative church: Creating brave and accessible space.” A hybrid event, at Shantz Mennonite Church, Baden, with French on Zoom, from 8:30. a.m. to noon. Learn more at mcec.ca/events.

MC Eastern Canada annual church gathering, at Rockway Mennonite Collegiate, in English and French. Learn more at mcec.ca/events.

MC Eastern Canada presents “Becoming a restorative church: Theology, leadership and accountability, for pastors, chaplains and congregational leaders, in English and French, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Learn more at mcec.ca/events.

MC Eastern Canada presents “Becoming a restorative church: Seeking peace and justice,” an online event for pastors, chaplains and congregational leaders, in English and French, from 9 a.m. to noon. Learn more at mcec.ca/events.

The Brubacher House Poetry Project is looking for self-composed, previously untranslated German Mennonite poetry to be included in a bilingual collection of works from Waterloo Region poets. The project’s goal is to maintain dialogue across generations within the local Mennonite literary tradition by translating these works. Works written in German or Pennsylvania Dutch are both encouraged. Email submissions and an author statement to brubacherpoetryproject@gmail.com. The project will culminate with a public reading in the spring.

MC Eastern Canada junior-youth gathering, “Come together,” at Rockway Mennonite Collegiate, Kitchener, from 1 to 5 p.m. For students in grades 5 to 8.Theatre of the Beat will lead an art of peace workshop feature peer-led music, interactive drama, robotics and Dutch Blitz. Learn more at mcec.ca/events.

Benjamin Eby lecture at Conrad Grebel University College in Waterloo. 7:30 p.m. Speaker: Kate Kennedy Steiner, assistant professor of music and director of church music and worship at Grebel. Topic: “Music, liturgy and the making of medieval Scotland.”

Menno Singers presents “Rachmaninov’s Vespers,” at Trillium Lutheran, Waterloo, at 7:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.mennosingers.com.

Menno Singers presents "Messe de Saint Anne" by local composer Justin LaPierre at St. Matthews Lutheran Church in Kitchener. 7:30 p.m. Visit mennosingers.com for details.