April Yamasaki and Lois Siemens have collaborated across the miles on a second creative project. In 2014, the women, who are pastors of Mennonite Church Canada congregations in... Read More
News & Stories
Aaron, Daniel and Thomas Epp with Santa in 1988. (Photos courtesy of Aaron Epp)
As Christmas approaches, one of the things I’m most looking forward to is heading to a local mall with my siblings so we can have our picture taken with Santa. I have had my photo... Read More
December 9, 2015 | Young Voices | Aaron Epp
Mim Harder of Rouge Valley Mennonite Church, Stouffville, Ont., and Steve Heinrichs, director of Indigenous Relations for MC Canada. (Photo by Rachel Brnjas)
Over a period of seven years, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) heard more than 6,000 survivors of residential schools tell their painful stories of... Read More
December 9, 2015 | Young Voices | Ally Siebert
“Africa is for babies.” That’s what Andrew and Karen Suderman, our Mennonite Church Canada colleagues in South Africa, assured us before we first left for Botswana in 2013. As... Read More
December 8, 2015 | Web First | Nathan Dirks
Representatives of every stream of global Christianity met in Tirana, Albania, Nov. 1 to 5, 2015, for a consultation on Discrimination, Persecution, Martyrdom: Following Christ... Read More
December 8, 2015 | Web First | Karla Braun
“If you want to love someone, you need to know their story; if you want to know someone, you need to learn their story,” Steve Heinrichs, Mennonite Church Canada’s director of... Read More
December 8, 2015 | Web First |
When Obed and Phena Dashan told students and faculty at Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS) how they feel God’s love surrounding them in spite of facing death every day... Read More
December 7, 2015 | Web First | Mary E. Klassen
Mennonite Church Canada laid off five staff members on Nov. 28, 2015, as part of the cost-saving restructuring efforts that fall under the banner of the Future Directions Task... Read More
December 2, 2015 | Web First | Will Braun
Mennonite Church Canada has begun to implement changes proposed by the Future Directions Task Force (FDTF) insofar as foresight allows, as a result of pressing financial necessity... Read More
December 1, 2015 | Web First |
Locations of Old Order Mennonite groups in Ontario. (Map courtesy of Amsey Martin)
There has been remarkable growth in the number of Old Order Mennonite meetinghouses in Ontario in the last 50 years. They have been spreading farther afield, especially in the... Read More
December 1, 2015 | Web First | Barb Draper
International recording artist and world traveller Matt Epp is performing at a benefit concert to support a unique peacebuilding venture in the Philippines. In March 2015 Epp... Read More
November 25, 2015 | Web First | Deborah Froese
None of Mennonite Mission Network’s five international workers was hurt in the November 13, 2015, bombings in Paris, although each one has been affected by them. The workers... Read More
November 24, 2015 | Web First | Dani Klotz
As world leaders, including Canada’s new prime minister, meet in Paris November 30 to December 11, 2015, to conclude a major new climate change agreement, their main focus will be... Read More
November 23, 2015 | Web First | Carol Thiessen
Willard Metzger will attend the United Nations Framework Climate Change Conference, Nov. 30 to Dec. 11, 2015, in Paris, France, on behalf of The Canadian Council of Churches (CCC... Read More
November 20, 2015 | Web First | Deborah Froese
Three high profile Mennonite-connected politicians expressed their views this week on how to handle the 25,000 Syrian refugees newly-elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has... Read More
November 19, 2015 | Web First |
The looping cursive script has turned brown, the yellowing pages are smudged with fingerprints and held together with aged pieces of tape. In the top left corner of the document,... Read More
November 18, 2015 | God at work in the Church |
“We should do this again!” commented a Hmong young adult, a sentiment heard often after Kitchener First Mennonite Church’s Assembly Scattered weekend in early October 2015. Nearly... Read More
November 18, 2015 | God at work in the Church | Rebecca Yoder Neufeld
Warmth was evident all around at the annual B.C. Women’s Ministry retreat. Held from Oct. 16 to 18, 2015, at Camp Squeah, there was warmth in the fire and fireplace decorations... Read More
November 18, 2015 | God at work in the Church | Amy Rinner Waddell
Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) made headlines this fall when it was revealed that workers at its CMU Farm had successfully grown an ancient variety of squash from seeds... Read More
November 18, 2015 | God at work in the World |
When a provincial election brought a wave of optimism to Manitoba—or at least parts of it—in 1999, a colleague said, “Yep, the reign of God should descend upon us any time now.”... Read More
November 18, 2015 | God at work in the World | Will Braun
“You maybe can’t save all the lives, but you can save some.” With these words, Doha Kharsa encouraged her audience to sponsor refugees. Kharsa, herself a Syrian refugee who... Read More
November 18, 2015 | God at work in the World |
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Saskatchewan is entering a season of transition. Claire Ewert Fisher has resigned as executive director, a position she has held for the past... Read More
November 18, 2015 | God at work in the World |
As part of our occasional Faith Journeys series, we share Henry Paetkau’s experience with readers. As Mennonite Church Eastern Canada’s area church minister, he originally... Read More
November 18, 2015 | God at work in Us | Henry Paetkau
The story of Orie O. Miller is also the story of how Mennonites in the 20th century moved from being isolationist and the “quiet in the land,” to being a church with strong... Read More
November 18, 2015 | Artbeat |
