That 14 people out of 38 who registered showed up for the “Partnering with God’s healing and hope” seminar may have indicated some wearying of Assembly 2016 participants. But... Read More
News & Stories
Readers of Canadian Mennonite know Vic Thiessen as a writer of thoughtful film reviews—an interpreter, as it were, of pop culture for Mennonites in Canada. In that same vein, he... Read More
July 20, 2016 | Web First |
“Wade in the water. Wade in the water, children. . . .” Susan Beaumont had Mennonite Church Canada ministers sing the well-known spiritual at their “Leading in a season of change... Read More
July 20, 2016 | Web First | Donita Wiebe-Neufeld
Despite the standing ovation, I cannot imagine I was alone in having mixed feelings about the play we had just experienced. My mind was a full cup of queasiness and a dollop of... Read More
July 20, 2016 | Web First | Donita Wiebe-Neufeld
The march was set to begin at 11 a.m. on July 9, 2016. But at the top of the hour, Michelle McHale, whose fight for civil rights in Steinbach recently brought the city into the... Read More
July 16, 2016 | Web First |
Assembly 2016 may become known by delegates as a watershed event. By turns intense and emotional, joyful and worshipful, the gathered delegates made significant decisions that... Read More
July 11, 2016 | Web First | Dan Dyck
About 500 Mennonites from across Canada will gather in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, July 6 to 10, 2016, for the Mennonite Church Canada Assembly. This event, which happens every two... Read More
July 4, 2016 | Web First |
Five hundred Mennonites from across Canada will gather in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, July 6 to 10, 2016, for the Mennonite Church Canada Assembly. This gathering brings together... Read More
July 4, 2016 | Web First | Canadian Mennonite staff
Safwat Marzouk
One of the highlights of Mennonite Church Canada’s assemblies are the times of worship and spiritual enrichment. The theme of Assembly 2016 (July 6-9), God~Faith-People, is... Read More
July 4, 2016 | Web First |
Bryan Moyer Suderman released a new CD, I’m Glad You’re Here: Songs of Hope and Struggle , on May 6, 2016, in Stouffville, Ont. The concert was also a fundraiser for the “Welcome... Read More
June 30, 2016 | Web First |
Six women and six men from across North America have been chosen to serve on the committee for the new song collection for Mennonite churches planned for release in 2020. The... Read More
June 30, 2016 | Web First |
The 2016 Michael Sattler Peace Prize has been awarded to the Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN) and EYN’s “Christian and Muslim Peace Initiative” (CAMPI), founded in 2010 with... Read More
June 30, 2016 | Web First |
This online supplement accompanies the feature, “ The lucky struggle ,” about workers in the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP). Disposable workers: The case... Read More
June 28, 2016 | Web First | Will Braun
Raising awareness and funds for the ongoing demands of the global refugee crisis was the goal of a “ration meal” lunch hosted by Canadian Foodgrains Bank at Sam’s Place in... Read More
June 28, 2016 | God at work in the World |
Take almost 200 mostly Mennonite peacebuilders from around the world, bring them together for four days in June 2016, at Conrad Grebel University College in Waterloo, liberally... Read More
June 28, 2016 | God at work in the World |
The way Ross Shantz remembers it, his father Ward contacted his buddies from the Second World War conscientious objector camp at Montreal River and they began the New Hamburg... Read More
June 28, 2016 | God at work in the World |
The auction began. Among the crowds in Coaldale for the annual Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Alberta Relief Sale on June 10 and 11, stood two Syrian men whose families had... Read More
June 28, 2016 | God at work in the World | Rose Klassen
The rain that fell on the morning of June 18 didn’t stop a group of walkers from making a three-kilometre trek in support of the upcoming World Refugee Day. Starting out from the... Read More
June 28, 2016 | God at work in the World | Amy Rinner Waddell
“This is our first kick at the cat,” quips Rosthern Junior College (RJC) principal Jim Epp. Nevertheless, he is confident his school’s new integrated learning program will be “a... Read More
June 28, 2016 | God at work in the Church |
Popular wisdom suggests the way to deal with mental health issues is to talk them through. Pete McAdams, an uncomplicated, 43-year-old, Hutterite long-distance cyclist, has... Read More
June 28, 2016 | God at work in Us | Will Braun
Erwin Cornelsen, left, and Jonas Cornelsen, pictured in 2013, are looking foward to spending time together now that they live together (Photo courtesy of Jonas Cornelsen)
Jonas Cornelsen jokes that, at the age of 22, he’s retired. While most of his peers are looking to start their careers, the Winnipeg native and recent university graduate moved to... Read More
June 28, 2016 | Young Voices | Aaron Epp
Participants in MCC’s 2016 Uprooted learning tour include, clockwise from top left: Thomas Coldwell (MCC Alberta), Andrew Brown, Alannah DeJong, Allison Goerzen (MCC Alberta), Jana Klassen, Carol McNaughton and Maria Alejandra Toro. (Photo by Thomas Coldwell)
What is the real cost of the things we buy? That’s the question I asked myself during Uprooted, a three-week learning tour for young adults through Mexico, Guatemala and Arizona... Read More
June 28, 2016 | Young Voices | Andrew Brown
In a land that closely resembles the place Jesus lived more than 2,000 years ago, his words still prove true. The people of Sidi, Burkina Faso, plant their fields with the tools... Read More
June 20, 2016 | Web First |
Alvin Thiessen completed the 800-kilometre pilgrimage on the Camino de Compostela. He reached the Cape of Fisterra, on the Atlantic coast, 90 kilometres past the city of Santiago de Compostela. (Photo by Alvin Thiessen)
After 10 days of walking, I come to a small town in Spain called Belorado. The day before, I had walked a gruelling 31 kilometres up and down hills, in warm and sunny spring... Read More
June 20, 2016 | Web First | Alvin Thiessen
The history of Youth Farm Bible Camp is, in no small sense, the history of Mennonite Church Saskatchewan. In the early 1940s, the Mennonite Youth Society began holding retreats at... Read More
June 15, 2016 | God at work in the Church | Donna Schulz