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
News & Stories
Locations of Old Order Mennonite groups in Ontario. (Map courtesy of Amsey Martin)
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 |
Coffee for Peace won a certificate of achievement from the United Nations Development Programme. It was one of six winners in the UN’s IIX N-Peace Innovation Challenge for “... Read More
November 18, 2015 | Focus On | Deborah Froese
We spent a lot of time on the road, travelling to meet with different partner organizations. This road is in the Drakensberg Mountains. (Photo by Aaron Janzen)
My partner Suzanne Braun and I spent three years as Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) service workers in South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho from 2011-14. As the connecting... Read More
November 18, 2015 | Young Voices | Aaron Janzen
Stories of how their life journeys were shaped by voluntary service filled the room at a reunion of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) service workers who were part of the Pax... Read More
November 16, 2015 | Web First | Gladys Terichow
As political unrest brings increased violence in Burundi, partners of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) continue building on two decades of peacebuilding to encourage peace. The... Read More
November 16, 2015 | Web First | Melody Musser
Congregating junior youth in small-town Saskatchewan may seem like a counter-intuitive way for them to discover their part in the global church body, but that’s what the purpose... Read More
November 16, 2015 | Web First | Marcus Kruger
Jane Philpott, a member of the Community Mennonite Church in Stouffville, Ont., and the chief of family medicine at Markham-Stouffville Hospital, was named today to Prime Minister... Read More
November 4, 2015 | Web First |
Board member Caleb Redekop, centre, cuts the PiE pie with Chris Brnjas and Jessica Reesor Rempel at Pastors in Exile’s kick-off on Sept. 27, 2015, at the Queen St. Commons Café in Kitchener, Ont. (Photo by Dave Rogalsky)
Both Jessica Reesor Rempel and Chris Brnjas are fond of puns, as perhaps only geeks are. Self-professed “church geeks,” they kicked off their new ministry, Pastors in Exile (PiE)... Read More
November 4, 2015 | God at work in the Church | Dave Rogalsky
An interactive blanket exercise on Missions Sunday, Oct. 25, 2015, shows members of Emmanuel Mennonite Church in Abbotsford, B.C., a different way of looking at Canadian history... Read More
November 4, 2015 | God at work in the World |
Bringing a long-standing and dearly loved institution to an end is not an easy thing to do. The members of Saskatchewan Women in Mission (SWM) have at least shown that it can be... Read More
November 4, 2015 | God at work in the Church | Saskatchewan Correspondent
People who want to love their indigenous neighbours must first learn to love themselves, according to Dr. Patricia Vickers, a psychotherapist and Tsimshian theologian. Vickers... Read More
November 4, 2015 | God at work in the World |