Worms, balloons, dolly carts and minimal sleep were all part of a Saskatchewan Mennonite Youth Organization event held in partnership with Mennonite Central Committee Saskatchewan... Read More
News & Stories
Honouring the Earth participants Kennedy Martens, Amy Wiens, Sydney Martens, Johanna Wiebe and Naomi Klassen learn about vermiculture as a way of better managing food waste. (Photo by Kirsten Hamm-Epp)
May 6, 2015 | God at work in the World | Kirsten Hamm-Epp
Roy G. Snyder
Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) lost one of its most enduring and faithful supporters on Feb. 11 with the passing of Roy G. Snyder of Waterloo, Ont. He was 99. He... Read More
May 6, 2015 | God at work in Us | Wally Kroeker
Lewis Burkholder’s A Brief History of Mennonites in Ontario , published in 1935, is a “brief” book compared to Sam Steiner’s new book on the same topic: In Search of Promised... Read More
May 6, 2015 | Artbeat |
A group of Manitoba youths and young adults from the Bunker, a ministry of Winkler Bergthaler Mennonite Church, recently went to High River, Alta., to work with Mennonite Disaster... Read More
May 6, 2015 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
Kyle Rudge is the founder of Geekdom House, a ministry devoted to loving and serving the nerd and geek community. (Photo courtesy of Kyle Rudge)
Are there parallels between the Star Wars universe and Anabaptism? I asked myself that recently after watching an episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars , an animated TV series. The... Read More
May 6, 2015 | Young Voices | Kyle Rudge
In April 2015 the Kenya Mennonite Church celebrated the publication of a history of the church. “The history of the Kenya Mennonite Church is God’s story. . . . I was moved by different stories of faith, courage, brokenness, sins, failure, forgiveness, reconciliation, and hope.” — Nelson Okanya, president of Eastern Mennonite Missions (Photo by Tammy Evans)
Excited participants streamed into the Ahero Pastoral Care Center on April 17‒18, 2015, to launch the freshly-minted history of the Kenya Mennonite Church (KMC), Forward in Faith... Read More
May 4, 2015 | Web First | Jewel Showalter
Grilled Peace Salsa, from the upcoming revised edition of Simply in Season, to be published May 25, 2015. (Photo by Melissa Hess; food styling by Cherise Harper)
Some congregations eat together monthly and even weekly as a way of enhancing fellowship and offering hospitality with shared, regular meals. Mennonite Community Cookbook blog and... Read More
May 4, 2015 | Web First |
This shows the type of damage that the April 2015 earthquake caused in many areas of Nepal. This photo from Lalitpur District was provided by an MCC partner, Rural Institution for Community Development (RICOD). Mennonite Central Committee currently works with RICOD on a nutrition project in Lalitpur. MCC is assessing the situation in the district to determine an emergency response. (Photo provided by Mennonite Central Committee)
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) will begin its earthquake response by working with a local organization in a remote area of eastern Nepal, providing food and other essential... Read More
April 29, 2015 | Web First | Julie Bell
Meeting the week of April 13 in Minneapolis, representatives from MennoMedia, Mennonite Church Canada, and Mennonite Church USA laid the foundation for a new Mennonite song... Read More
April 28, 2015 | Web First |
Doga Jose washes clothes with water drawn from the well drilled in 2014 in Ndoro, Caia District. (Photo: Matthew Sawatzky, for Mennonite Central Committee)
Six men grasp the long metal handle of the drill and walk slowly in a circle. They lean into the task, using body weight to drive the shaft of the drill into the dry soil of... Read More
April 22, 2015 | God at work in the World | Julie Bell
George and Tobia Veith, left and centre, visit with Denise Epp following one of the Veiths’ presentations on the church in China held at Rosthern Mennonite Church recently. (Photo by Donna Schulz)
“This is about what God’s doing,” said George Veith. “We want all the glory to go to God.” He was referring, during a series of four presentations hosted by Rosthern Mennonite... Read More
April 22, 2015 | God at work in the Church |
A sign greets Syrian refugees at Edmonton International Airport, where approximately 60 Mennonites and Muslims were gathered to welcome them to their new home on March 31. (Photo by Donita Wiebe-Neufeld)
Ahmad Al-Jamal, his wife Ghada, and their three young children were visibly excited as they waited at Edmonton International Airport on the evening of March 31, 2015. Ahmad hadn’t... Read More
April 22, 2015 | God at work in the World | Donita Wiebe-Neufeld
One of the products available at Fresh From the Farm. (Photo by Will Braun)
If you want Tamworth heritage bacon or Golden Guernsey milk, Jacqui Schmucker can provide them. If you want maple syrup from a horse-and-buggy farm or honey from a black-bumper... Read More
April 22, 2015 | God at work in Us | Will Braun
Kathy Moorhead Thiessen, centre, with a group of workshop participants in Suleimani, Northern Iraq. (Photo courtesy of Kathy Moorhead Thiessen)
Refugee camps around the city of Suleimani in the Kurdish region of Northern Iraq have become pressure cookers of cultural and religious tension. Thousands of people displaced by... Read More
April 22, 2015 | God at work in Us |
In the 1940s, Mary Emma Showalter began a cookbook project, collecting old Mennonite recipes that were handwritten in notebooks because she feared that soon the notebooks would be... Read More
April 22, 2015 | Focus On Books & Resources |
Author Carrie Snyder chats with the evening’s moderator Rob Zacharias before her reading at the 2014-15 New Mennonite/s Writing series at Conrad Grebel University College on March 4. (Photo by Dave Rogalsky)
John Siebert had two things to say to Carrie Snyder as she finished her readings from her latest book, Girl Runner , at Conrad Grebel University College on March 4. The executive... Read More
April 22, 2015 | Focus On Books & Resources |
Theology, Spirituality Christian, Muslim, Friend: Twelve Paths to Real Relationship . David W. Shenk. Herald Press, 2014, 187 pages. Using many examples from his own experience,... Read More
April 22, 2015 | Focus On Books & Resources |
Maurice Martin signs a copy of I’m so Glad for Sunday . . . When I can go to Church.
Spurred by requests from his thoroughly modern children to tell them stories of his growing-up years in the Ontario Swiss Mennonite homeland of Waterloo County, Maurice Martin, a... Read More
April 22, 2015 | Focus On Books & Resources |
The WhizBang Shufflers returned to Mennofolk after first performing at the event in 2005. From left: Donald Willms, Luke Enns, Curtis Wiebe and Rick Unger. (Photo by Aaron Epp)
When Jordan Weber began making visual art four years ago, he wanted a new way to express himself. “I never expected my art to be on display for anybody to see,” the 24-year-old... Read More
April 22, 2015 | Young Voices |
Diana, Luis, and Jacobo Mata. (Photo courtesy of Luis Mata)
Hundreds of families in Canada live in limbo, not sure if they’ll ever be granted permanent resident status. That’s the story for the Mata family. Jacobo Mata, who is now 17,... Read More
April 22, 2015 | Young Voices |
For Quiet in the Land, music is meant to be participatory and community-building, an approach that was shaped by the duo’s Mennonite upbringing. (Photo by Meg Harder)
Dan Root and Laura Dyck quickly became friends after they met in the fall of 2009 and realized how much they had in common. Both were living in the Conrad Grebel University... Read More
April 22, 2015 | Young Voices |
This group of volunteers worked in the High River, Alta., Mennonite Disaster Service rebuilding project. High River was flooded in June 2013, and MDS continues to rebuild for residents whose homes were damaged. (Photo courtesy of MDS)
The month of April is known for many things—April Fool’s Day, the first full month of spring, the start of baseball season, “April showers bring May flowers” and regrettably the... Read More
April 16, 2015 | Web First | Mark Beach
Steve Heinrichs invites guests to join him in a daily “Watch and Pray” vigil and sacred fire from Easter Sunday to Earth Day to reflect and meditate on scriptural directives to respect and care for the land. (Photo by Dan Dyck)
Steve Heinrichs grew up in urban Vancouver, enjoying the nearby ocean, mountains and rivers of coastal Canada without giving much thought to their presence or condition. “I don’t... Read More
April 15, 2015 | Web First | Dan Dyck
Part-time registration is now available for PA 2015, the Mennonite World Conference (MWC) Assembly slated for July 21-26, 2015 in Harrisburg, PA, at the Farm Show Complex. “We’ve... Read More
April 14, 2015 | Web First | Phyllis Pellman Good
