In 1985, around 2,500 people walked the Camino de Santiago, a medieval pilgrimage route in northern Spain. Ten years later, the number jumped tenfold. The year that I did it, 2005... Read More
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In 1979, Don Baergen was an orderly in a seniors home when a fellow church member tapped him on the shoulder. Would he consider a half-time salary/half-time volunteer position at... Read More
December 14, 2011 | God at work in Us | Story and Photo by Donita Wiebe-Neufeld
Willard Metzger, MC Canada’s executive director, spoke to federal MPs and senators about climate justice earlier this year before heading to the 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa.
Whether the scientists are right or wrong about climate change is no longer the issue, Willard Metzger , Mennonite Church Canada’s executive director (formerly general secretary... Read More
December 14, 2011 | God at work in the World | By Dan Dyck
John Borthwick is calling on church leaders to see themselves as midwives and chaplains. One of three presenters at the Oct. 22 think tank workshop, “Leading the church in a post-... Read More
December 14, 2011 | God at work in the Church | By Dave Rogalsky
Willard Metzger (2nd row, right) marches through the streets of Durban in support of climate justice with other people of faith. – photo by Kaitlin Bardswich
For Mennonite Church Canada Executive Director Willard Metzger, the 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa was an eye-opening experience that began... Read More
December 13, 2011 | Web First | Deborah Froese
The 'Mennonite tree' is among the 150 maples, ashes, lindens and hawthorns in the garden as a symbol of worldwide unity. (Photo credit: Frieder Boller)
On a cold, blustery day in the German town of Wittenberg, Bishop Yuri Novgorodov of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kazakhstan patted down the dark soil at the base of a... Read More
December 13, 2011 | Web First | By Ruby Russell
The story of Muslim and Christian women working together on a quilt at Floradale Mennonite Church (Ont.) is one of several inspiring but obscure stories revealed in Waging Peace Muslim and Christian Alternatives. The quilt eventually found its way to Palestinian refugees.
A new one-hour documentary produced by MennoMedia’s film department, Third Way media, explores threads of peacemaking in the Christian and Muslim faiths through the centuries and... Read More
December 12, 2011 | Web First | Steve Shenk
More than 20,000 YouTube views, a profile on CNN, posted on more than 60 blogs from around the world, and continuous sharing on facebook and twitter have taken the “ Singing... Read More
December 12, 2011 | Web First | news release
Due to the shortage of houses in the Attawapiskat First Nation community, shacks like this are being used as homes. --MCC photo by Lyndsay Mollins Koene
While recent media attention has focused on the shortage of houses and lack of water and sewage systems in the Attawapiskat First Nation community in northern Ontario, many other... Read More
December 9, 2011 | Web First | Gladys Terichow
David Victor R. Youssef from the Coptic Evangelical Organization for Social Services in Egypt
Churches in Egypt are praying and helping migrants, who flee home due to political turmoil, violence and uncertain future. There is a great need to develop stable democratic... Read More
December 8, 2011 | Web First | Naveen Qayyum, staff writer
In villages to towns across Africa, messages of HIV prevention are resonating through churches in the wake of global events marking World AIDS Day. But the border between faith... Read More
December 7, 2011 | Web First | By Frederick Nzwili
Clinton commits $3 million to seed Global Equality Fund.
The world needs to act more proactively to promote and protect the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT ) people, said United States Secretary of State... Read More
December 6, 2011 | Web First | By John Zarocostas
Mayan Ixhil community members protest outside the Catholic church in the town of Cotzal after ENEL representatives failed to show up for a scheduled August 2, 2011 negotiation session. Photo by Yasmin Méndez.
Tension filled the cramped, block-wall room in the Guatemalan highlands as indigenous leaders sat across from negotiators for ENEL, an Italian-based energy company building a $228... Read More
December 6, 2011 | Web First | Tobias Roberts, MCC development worker
Mary Castello, second year music student at Wilfrid University
Mary Castello is the 2012 recipient of the $3,500 Abner Martin music scholarship given by Menno Singers, a community choir in the Waterloo Region of Ontario, Mary, who is from... Read More
December 5, 2011 | Web First | news release
MCCO supports the growing plea for a sustainable housing plan in Attawapiskat and other remote First Nations. --MCCO Photo by Lyndsay Mollins Koene.
Mennonite Central Committee Ontario ( MCCO ) supports the growing plea for a sustainable housing plan inRead More
December 1, 2011 | Web First | Lyndsay Mollins Koene
The present hymnal will be 20 years old in 2012
Nearly 100 congregations in Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite Church Canada are reporting on the songs they sing. They are helping to determine what the next collection of music... Read More
November 30, 2011 | Web First | Steve Shenk
The Rev. Mautji Eloridge Pataki, general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, met with Keyla Cortez Vanegas, a Mennonite World Conference intern at MCC U.N. Office, to encourage her while he was in New York City for a meeting. --Doug Hostetter photo
As a Christian who takes her faith seriously, Keyla Cortez Vanegas was shocked by New York City’s secularism when she arrived there in August. Cortez Vanegas belongs to Esquipulas... Read More
November 30, 2011 | Web First | Emily Will, freelance writer from Frederick, MD
Will Braun: 'The case would be stronger if North American reps stayed home.'
When it comes to carbon emissions and care for the Earth, Canadian faith leaders should practise what they preach, says a local environmental activist. Will Braun says the two... Read More
November 29, 2011 | Web First | Brenda Suderman
Pat and Rad Houmphan, with the congregation of Living Water Church in Borabu, will use the money to assemble care packages.
Mennonite Church Canada has wired $3,500 for flood relief in Thailand. Executive staff approved the emergency gift on Nov. 16. Mennonite Church Canada workers Pat and Rad Houmphan... Read More
November 25, 2011 | Web First | Deborah Froese
Ask Dustin Bueckert if he thinks incorporating his faith into his day job is important, and he will tell you yes. “It keeps you credible,” says Bueckert, who owns and operates... Read More
November 23, 2011 | Young Voices | Aaron Epp
“And God blessed them, and God said to them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of... Read More
November 23, 2011 | Young Voices | Kaylin Epp
“Freedom is coming. . . . Justice is coming, oh yes I know.” While many people in the area and across Canada congregated to watch cannons being fired and soldiers marching, more... Read More
November 23, 2011 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
Instead of dragging their cook books around with them on Mennonite Disaster Service assignments, Anne Friesen, left, and Tina Heppner, of Altona, Man., use their laptops to look up recipes and keep in touch with their grandchildren.
“Creative cooks to produce three substantial, from-scratch meals per day for groups of five to 35. Successful candidates must be able to travel and remain away from home for up to... Read More
November 23, 2011 | Focus On | By Emily Will
Mennonite Central Committee ( MCC ) recently conducted a re-visioning process called New Wine/New Wineskins: Reshaping MCC for the 21st Century, to review various aspects of the... Read More
November 23, 2011 | Artbeat | Reviewed by Barb Draper
There is a difference between doing well and doing good in business, Grant Unrau says. Doing good is something that Stun Collective, a strategic design company, strives to do on a... Read More
November 23, 2011 | God at work in Us | By Rachel Bergen