Ontario

Mennonite Central Committee Ontario Annual General Meeting. 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Join us as we share MCC Ontario's financial outcomes and a snapshot of our strategic plan progress. Official Congregational Representatives and Delegates who register as such are entitled to vote. Visit mcco.ca/AGM for details.

You are invited to the New Hamburg Mennonite Relief Sale live online auctions — two live online auctions to raise money for Mennonite Central Committee. On May 29 at 9:00 a.m. ET, join our popular quilt auction featuring over 150 beautiful handmade quilts, including a feature quilt by Renske Helmut. At this year's online sale, you'll have the opportunity to purchase a NHMRS-in-a-Box and participate in a virtual Run for Relief - Run it your Way. Visit nhmrs.com for details.

Ninth International Conference on Aging and Spirituality, a viritual conference hosted by Conrad Grebel University College. Theme: “Vital connections: Claiming voice and learning to listen.” Seven 90-minute conference sessions will take place between June 8 and 23. To learn more or to register, go here.

Webinar featuring Mary Anne Caibaiosai in the storytelling series Treaty as Sacred Covenant: Stories of Indigenous-Mennonite relations. 7:00 p.m. EDT. Register here.

Conrad Grebel University College hosts a virtual Voices Together Hymnal celebration with Sarah Johnson, at 7 p.m. For more information, visit bit.ly/37erUkl.

Fall Zoom Mennonite Church Eastern Canada gathering, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Discover how God is moving in this pandemic times and how North Leamington United Mennonite Church held baptisms during the pandemic. Learn more about youth ministry at Bethany Mennonite Church. Uncover how God is inspiring courageous imagination in the Niagara area. Also includes the installations of Leah Reesor-Keller, MC Eastern Canada’s executive minister, and Fanosie Legesse, international mission minister.

“Becoming peacemakers,” Mennonite Central Committee’s virtual peace conference: (20) In conversation with Bruxy Cavey and Denley McIntosh of the Meeting House and MCC’s Ken Ogasawara, at 7 to 8 p.m.; (21) Main sessions and breakout sessions with Paul Fast, MCC’s health coordinator; Dina Gonzalez Pina, MCC’s ethnicity and gender equity specialist; and members of MCC’s Indigenous Neighbours, restorative justice and refugee sponsorship teams.

Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Ontario holds its annual general meeting via Zoom from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. A bylaw change will be presented to amend the official definition of membership with MCC Ontario. The proposed bylaw change will remove membership of individual congregations and move it to the Anabaptist conferences that support the work of MCC Ontario. This change ensures greater accountability between MCC Ontario’s governance and conferences. To register online, visit mcco.ca/agm.

Aylmer Mennonite Charity Auction, at the Aylmer Curling Club, opens at 8 a.m. Live auction from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Activities for children, large-scale food festival, haircuts. For more information, call Katie Miller at 519-765-0075. Funds go to MCC projects worldwide

“Spring into auction: 100 quilts for 100 years of MCC,” an online event where the public can bid on a special collection of 100 quilts curated by the New Hamburg Mennonite Relief Sale’s quilt committee, begins at 10 a.m. Photos of the 100 quilts can be viewed at nhmrs.com/quilt-catalogue.

MCC’s meat canner visits Elmira for five days, at the Elmira Produce Auction Centre. To volunteer, visit elmirameatcanningproject.ca or call Keith or Dianne Snyder at 519-669-4084.