Forty years ago, four women in the southern Manitoba community of Altona opened a thrift shop to raise funds for Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). It was the beginning of a... Read More
News & Stories
Dusting off the Bible? Does that mean we aren’t using our Bibles, or is it an overstatement meant to capture our attention? Perhaps it implies looking at scripture with new eyes,... Read More
May 23, 2012 | God at work in the Church | By Deborah Froese
As the stereotype goes, when you were a teenager you might have thought your parents and grandparents didn’t know anything. You knew best and when you got it wrong, were loath to... Read More
May 22, 2012 | Young Voices | Emily Loewen
Canadian Mennonite earned the top award given by the Canadian Church Press in an awards banquet here Friday, May 10, 2012, a recognition called the A.C. Forrest Memorial Award... Read More
May 12, 2012 | God at work in the Church | staff reports
The six young adults who live in the three-storey house at the end of Alloway Avenue know each other well by now. They speak with each other openly, respond to each other... Read More
May 9, 2012 | Young Voices | Aaron Epp
What do you get when you combine thrift store finds, estate sale gems, antique store trinkets, a few online purchases and craft store necessities? Beautiful “up-cycled” jewellery... Read More
May 9, 2012 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
Is light a particle or a wave? Yes. It is not until we accept this apparent contradiction—the wave-particle duality—that we can understand fully the behaviour of light. In the... Read More
May 9, 2012 | Young Voices | Caleb Gingrich
Elderly Kenyan men are among those who receive blankets as part of a relief effort under the auspices of the Kenya Mennonite Church following ethnic clashes in eastern Kenya earlier this year.
In the aftermath of recent border clashes between Luo and Kalenjin ethnic tribes in eastern Kenya, Kenya Mennonite Church is helping to provide aid to displaced persons and... Read More
May 9, 2012 | Back Page |
Muriel Bechtel, left, retiring area church minister, is greeted by Linda Brnjas, assistant moderator and pastor at Bethel Mennonite Church, near Elmira, during Mennonite Church Eastern Canada’s 25th annual church gathering.
On the cusp of its 25th year, Mennonite Church Eastern Canada returned to the place it had its inaugural gathering:Read More
May 9, 2012 | God at work in the Church | Dave Rogalsky, Eastern Canada Correspondent
Taking a bow after Theatre of the Beat’s Gadfly: Sam Steiner Dodges the Draft are John Wideman, left, who starred as Sam Steiner; Sam Steiner himself; his wife Sue Clemmer Steiner; and Kim Walker, who played Sue Clemmer.
Those who had the opportunity to see Gadfly: Sam Steiner Dodges the Draft will recall that this drama—based on the 1960s lives of Sam Steiner and Sue Clemmer—ends with the cast... Read More
May 9, 2012 | Artbeat | By Sam Steiner
Kim Walker (as Sue Clemmer), left, John Wideman (as Sam Steiner), and other Goshen College students played by Rebecca Steiner and Ben Wert work on the college’s student paper in Theatre of the Beat’s Gadfly: Sam Steiner Dodges the Draft.
gad·fly - [gad-flahy] 1. any of various flies, as a stable fly or warble fly, that bite or annoy domestic animals.Read More
May 9, 2012 | Artbeat | Review and Photo by Dave Rogalsky
Rohina Malik plays a veiled Muslim woman in her one-woman show, Unveiled, performed at Conrad Grebel University College on March 30.
Rohina Malik was 14 when her family moved from London, England, to Chicago. It was there that she lived through—and continues to live through—the misunderstandings about Muslims,... Read More
May 9, 2012 | Artbeat | By Dave Rogalsky
James Redekop is pictured in one of SunSelect’s environmentally friendly greenhouses in Delta, B.C.
SunSelect Produce Inc., a family-owned vegetable producer with Mennonite roots, owns more than 28 hectares of greenhouses in Aldergrove and Delta, which they use to grow more than... Read More
May 9, 2012 | God at work in Us | By Rachel Bergen
An Earth Day tent revival at Memorial Park in front of Winnipeg’s Legislative Building attracted around 350 people of all ages, with 200 participating in a walk to the event... Read More
May 9, 2012 | God at work in the World |
Mark Bauman of St. Jacobs Mennonite Church, Ont., removes mouldy wood and materials before rebuilding a floor in an Attawapiskat First Nation home this spring.
Mark Bauman’s eyes still tear up when he recalls worshipping at the St. Francois-Xavier Roman Catholic Church in Attawapiskat. Most of the service in the First Nation community,... Read More
May 9, 2012 | God at work in the World | By Dave Rogalsky
Derek Janzen, a Grade 12 student at MCI, Gretna, Man., plays with young children at Hope Community Centre in Kenya.
“You can watch a thousand World Vision commercials and still not fully understand what life is like for some,” says Emily Hildebrand, one of 12 students from Mennonite Collegiate... Read More
May 9, 2012 | God at work in the Church | By Evelyn Rempel Petkau
When a missionary asked Africans in Zanzibar to tell him something about their God, they simply said, "God thunders!" The cleric had travelled across the seas in the 19th century... Read More
May 7, 2012 | Web First | Fredrick Nzwili
Karin Fast with her host mother.
A Eastern Canada student is participating in the Goshen ( Ind .) College Study-Service Term (SST) in Senegal during this summer, along with 21 other students. Goshen established... Read More
May 4, 2012 | Web First | News release
Even though their Mecca is the Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah, one non-Mormon observer says they are growing fast because "the way they organize themselves makes for more congregations."
Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney may or may not become the first Mormon to move into the White House next year, but a new study shows that Mormonism is moving into... Read More
May 2, 2012 | Web First | By Kevin Eckstrom
Christians are taught that taking a Sabbath from work is an important spiritual discipline, but some Mennonites in Winnipeg organized a Sabbath from consumption. Consumption... Read More
April 25, 2012 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
As a recent graduate of the University of Manitoba with a degree in social work, I consider myself to be quite lucky with the type of employment I’ve landed. I received a job... Read More
April 25, 2012 | Young Voices | Stephanie Coughlan Ens
It takes a village to make an album. Oh Village, a four-piece rock band from Abbotsford, B.C., is planning to pay for its upcoming EP by “crowdfunding” the project. Scott Currie,... Read More
April 25, 2012 | Young Voices | Aaron Epp
Theology, spirituality Atonement, Justice and Peace: The Message of the Cross and the Mission of the Church . Darrin W. Snyder Belousek . Wm . B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2012, 668... Read More
April 25, 2012 | Focus On |
In order to write this book, Barb Draper did a lot of digging among her roots. She performed an excellent job of searching out the reasons for some of the traditions and practices... Read More
April 25, 2012 | Focus On | Reviewed by Levi M. Frey
