News & Stories
Before the fighting escalated in Ukraine this year, Nadiya O.* and her husband lived near the city of Uman, Ukraine. Together, they grew a vegetable garden and kept bees, selling... Read More
September 12, 2022 | Web First | Jason Dueck
As the Muslim call to prayer wafted on the air through open doors, the General Council worshipped, prayed and considered the global fellowship of churches in Mennonite World... Read More
September 12, 2022 | Web First |
While there are Mennonites aulawäajen (everywhere) in Manitoba, Jeremy Giesbrecht and Darren Kehler of the Quonset Brothers have found that such is true internationally now that... Read More
September 1, 2022 | Web First | Daisy Belec
For much of my life I associated Ethiopia with famine. I’m just old enough to recall the searing scenes from Ethiopia in the mid-1980s: windswept, dull-beige landscapes; skeletal... Read More
August 31, 2022 | News | Will Braun
After almost 40 years of writing and editing, the Believers Church Bible Commentary (BCBC) series is nearing completion. The collection of commentaries covers every book of the... Read More
August 31, 2022 | News | Nicolien Klassen-Wiebe
Several British Columbia pastors cooperated this summer by preaching sermons on the Psalms and sharing them with each other’s congregations on Zoom. At a Mennonite Church B.C... Read More
August 31, 2022 | News | Amy Rinner Waddell
Lifetime experiences and vegetables are being harvested at Winnipeg’s urban farm, Metanoia Farmers Workers Cooperative Ltd., located on the campus of Canadian Mennonite University... Read More
August 31, 2022 | News | Daisy Belec
The first Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) thrift store opened in March 1972 in Altona, Man. In 2022, the thrift stores are celebrating the 50th anniversary of this first store... Read More
August 31, 2022 | News | Maria H. Klassen
Participants in the Bridgefolk movement for dialogue and greater unity between Mennonites and Roman Catholics have long made the phrase, “Proceed through friendship,” their byword... Read More
August 31, 2022 | News | Gerald W. Schlabach
After more than a year of discussion, study and prayer, Winnipeg’s Jubilee Mennonite Church—which is part of both Mennonite Church Manitoba and the Manitoba Mennonite Brethren... Read More
August 31, 2022 | News | John Longhurst
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Canada has joined other leading Canadian aid organizations to launch Aid for Afghanistan, a national campaign calling on the Government of Canada... Read More
August 31, 2022 | News |
Eight Mennonite Church Manitoba congregations will receive a total of $30,000 for missional engagement in their local communities. “Finding intentional ways to love our neighbours... Read More
August 31, 2022 | News |
Are you browsing the library shelves aimlessly, uncertain as to which book to take home? Did you spend the entire summer gardening or at the lake, unable to find time to read? Or... Read More
August 31, 2022 | People | Emily Summach
I was caught off guard when I got the call that my friend Paul Phomsouvanh was in the hospital with COVID-19 last fall. At that time, the new more contagious Delta variant had... Read More
August 31, 2022 | People | Will Loewen
Chris Steingart’s journey to owning a professional web-design business was unanticipated. In 2005, he was working as a youth pastor at Waterloo-Kitchener Mennonite Church in... Read More
August 31, 2022 | People | Mike Strathdee
Arlyn Friesen Epp just made scripture a little fishier. One year ago, Mennonite Church Canada executive minister Doug Klassen asked Friesen Epp to produce a short film for... Read More
August 25, 2022 | Web First | Daisy Belec
Flood survivors in hard-hit eastern Kentucky need volunteers—and Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) is trying to help. “The need is overwhelming,” said Larry Stoner, MDS regional... Read More
August 23, 2022 | Web First |
Pastors and other leaders from across the five regional churches joined together at First Mennonite Church in Edmonton for Spiritual Leaders Day, part of the Mennonite Church... Read More
August 17, 2022 | News | Emily Summach
Who has ever been a young adult? Who has ever interacted with a young adult at church? Who has witnessed a young adult leaving church? Who has witnessed a young adult stepping... Read More
August 17, 2022 | News | Jessica Evans
“In This Together [ITT] is one way to feel those prophetic nudgings of the Spirit,” said Alissa Bender, pastor of Hamilton (Ont.) Mennonite Church, and a member of the ITT... Read More
August 17, 2022 | News | Emily Summach
Bethel Mennonite Church of Langley, one of the oldest congregations in Mennonite Church British Columbia, held its last service on June 26. However, its doors are not closed; the... Read More
August 17, 2022 | News | Amy Rinner Waddell
Although the focus was on the Roman Catholic Church when the Pope visited Canada in late July, Mennonites also have a role to play in promoting reconciliation with Indigenous... Read More
August 17, 2022 | People | John Longhurst
After more than two years of putting a pause on performing, Manitoba bluegrass quintet the Stanley County Cut-ups is finally playing again. “I would say that the cogs are back in... Read More
August 16, 2022 | Web First | Daisy Belec
Last month, people from around the world gathered in Indonesia for the Mennonite World Conference’s 17th assembly . In an outdoor venue at a Mennonite seminary on a mountaintop in... Read More
August 5, 2022 | Web First | Aaron Epp