When missionaries arrived in Colombia to establish the country’s first Mennonite congregations, Tulio Pedraza and his wife Sofía became two of their first converts. They were... Read More
News & Stories
Johnny Wideman co-wrote Yellow Bellies with his fellow Theatre of the Beat member, Rebecca Steiner. (Photo courtesy of Johnny Wideman)
After exploring lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer inclusion in the Mennonite church in This Will Lead to Dancing , the Stouffville, Ont.-based theatre company Theatre of the... Read More
May 4, 2016 | Young Voices | Aaron Epp
The following article was originally given as a short speech at a community supper at Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo, Ont., where Maia Fujimoto lived in residence for... Read More
May 4, 2016 | Young Voices | Maia Fujimoto
Photo by Dave Rogalsky
Building of a light-rail transit system along the spine of Waterloo and Kitchener had to change focus in March 2016, when excavations in uptown Waterloo exposed the remains of a... Read More
May 4, 2016 | Back Page | Dave Rogalsky
Calling themselves the Basket Cases, a small group of women meets monthly for a fibre arts challenge at The Clothes Basket, a Mennonite Central Committee thrift store in Rosthern... Read More
May 3, 2016 | Web First |
Marianne Jantzi is the author of Simple Pleasures: Stories from My Life as an Amish Mother , which has just been released by Herald Press as part of its Plainspoken series by... Read More
May 3, 2016 | Web First |
Sergey Deynekin has dreams for the Chernobaevka Church in southern Ukraine. A bi-vocational pastor who works in the building trade, he developed architectural plans for a future... Read More
May 3, 2016 | Web First | Deborah Froese
The board of governors of Conrad Grebel University College announced that president Susan Schultz Huxman has accepted the call to become the president of Eastern Mennonite... Read More
May 3, 2016 | Web First |
Mennonites are responding to the recent earthquakes in Ecuador, where members of multiple Mennonite congregations are among 100,000 people affected by the disaster. A 7.8-... Read More
April 25, 2016 | Web First |
Masum Khandakar is a Bangladeshi rice farmer with a craggy face and a jutting white beard that flares as wide as the wings of his collared shirt. His voice goes high when his... Read More
April 21, 2016 | Web First | J. Neufeld
A futsal (soccer) park project in Gaborone, Botswana, is springing to life with the help of children who are following God’s lead. Despite an encouraging start to this development... Read More
April 20, 2016 | God at work in the World | Nathan Dirks
The Ojibway word for medicine is mush-ki-ki , meaning “strength of the earth” or “power from the soil,” explained David Daniels of Long Plain First Nation, located near Portage La... Read More
April 20, 2016 | God at work in the World |
Listening on both sides is vital as indigenous people and settlers continue to learn to walk beside, and relate to, each other. This was one key point that some 70 participants... Read More
April 20, 2016 | God at work in the World | Amy Rinner Waddell
It was the re-entry of the commercial banks into the agricultural lending sector that tipped the balance at Mennonite Savings and Credit Union (MSCU), prompting its leaders to... Read More
April 20, 2016 | God at work in the Church |
John Biakte, left, Tha Kim and Nan Tin enjoy their first experience of making pizza dough on Feb. 13, 2016, with instruction from Karin Krahn, right. More than 20 people from... Read More
April 20, 2016 | God at work in the Church | Brenda Tiessen-Wiens
Peter Harder, a retired senior bureaucrat and high-level corporate advisor with Mennonite roots, was named by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the Liberal government’s leader in... Read More
April 20, 2016 | God at work in Us |
Spending time with his band mates is one of the first things Oh Village singer/pianist Scott Currie mentions when asked about the best part of making Ocris, the band’s second full... Read More
April 20, 2016 | Young Voices |
Six months into his first pastoral job, Moses Falco feels very inadequate. “Am I really cut out for this?” and “Do I have the skills to be in this position?” are questions he has... Read More
April 20, 2016 | Young Voices |
Around the world, MCC supports projects that help families make a better living, helping them pay for food or school for their children. Sometimes those projects involve animals—... Read More
April 20, 2016 | Back Page | Emily Loewen
The team from Elmira Mennonite Church ended the Hawkesville and Markham church dynasties at this year’s Bible quizzing competition, held on April 9, 2016, at Steinmann Mennonite... Read More
April 20, 2016 | Web First |
When Henry and Hilda Schulz of Sanford, Man., were still farming, one of the crops they grew was barley. As friends at their church—Sargent Avenue Mennonite in Winnipeg—learned... Read More
April 18, 2016 | Web First | Amanda Thorsteinsson
Marketed “for twenty- and thirty-somethings who wish they could do camp again,” Pastors in Exile (PiE) and Silver Lake Mennonite Camp near Sauble Beach, Ont., ran what they called... Read More
April 18, 2016 | Web First | Chris Brnjas
It’s a Holy Week tradition by now in Abbotsford. On Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, a local bookstore/coffee shop is packed with an audience enthusiastic to hear blues music... Read More
April 6, 2016 | God at work in the Church | Amy Rinner Waddell
“Take heart, it is I. Do not be afraid.” Chuck Neufeld’s confident voice set the tone for the 2016 Mennonite Church Alberta delegate assembly as he sang the theme words from Mark... Read More
April 6, 2016 | God at work in the Church | Donita Wiebe-Neufeld
A new half-hour documentary gives voice to lesbian/gay/ bisexual/transgender/queer (LGBTQ) people in Mennonite Church Canada congregations. Listening Church , which weaves... Read More
April 6, 2016 | God at work in the Church | Will Braun