News & Stories
What better way to bring a community together than 350 red umbrellas? Starting at the beginning of COVID-19, Rockway Mennonite Collegiate in Kitchener, Ont ., has been working on... Read More
July 8, 2022 | Web First | Daisy Belec
Saying the war in Ukraine has shaken western European Mennonites’ commitment to nonviolence, a French pastor urged Mennonites from around the world to get off the sidelines and... Read More
July 8, 2022 | Web First | Paul Schrag

Nyawar Mapieny Gathoul, 17, holds her six-month-old son, Zoal Mapiny Gai. She stands with some of her younger brothers and sisters who she also cares for because their parents have died. They live on monthly food distributions from MCC partner SSUDRA. They also buy small amounts of food with money they make by gathering wood. The young family lives in Rubkona, an informal settlement camp in Unity State, South Sudan. (MCC photo by Tadeo Santonino)
Nyawar Mapieny Gathoul’s baby and siblings are hungry. The father of her six-month-old isn’t around to help and, at just 17, the young mother also cares for her seven siblings... Read More
July 7, 2022 | Web-only | Jason Dueck
A colourful display of Javanese music, dance and shadow puppetry kicked off the Mennonite World Conference (MWC) assembly in Salatiga, Indonesia, on July 5. Singing, prayer, a... Read More
July 7, 2022 | Web First | Aaron Epp
An area of disputed land in Saskatchewan has become a seedbed of reconciliation with the launch of an interpretive path to make the story of that journey come alive for visitors... Read More
July 6, 2022 | News | Emily Summach
Jane LaVacca, the e xecutive d irector of Westview Centre4Women in St. Catharines, credits her listening ear for the latest project being built at the c entre. In listening to the... Read More
July 6, 2022 | News | Maria H. Klassen
As Neill von Gunten and his Black companions departed an increasingly volatile Chicago rally at which Martin Luther King Jr. had taken a brick to the head, KKK members and other... Read More
July 6, 2022 | People | Will Braun
Ten young adults from across the nationwide church will take part in the Young Leaders Experience (YLE) at “We declare: What we have seen and heard,” Mennonite Church Canada’s... Read More
July 6, 2022 | News |
In early 2021, when the migrant workers were coming to Niagara-on-the-Lake in southwestern Ontario to start working on local farms, COVID-19 had closed or limited the operating... Read More
July 6, 2022 | News | Maria H. Klassen
In June, Altona Mennonite Church completed the construction of a new ramp, to help make its worship space more accessible. But, whereas many churches might have built the ramp and... Read More
July 6, 2022 | News | Nicolien Klassen-Wiebe
Dustan Eager was home alone when the knock on the door came at 2 a.m. It was Aug. 4, 2021, and someone from emergency services was there, telling him to get ready to leave his... Read More
July 6, 2022 | News | John Longhurst
Mennonite Church Canada’s Joint Council approved updates to the MC Canada operating agreement at its latest meeting on June 8. “The latest revision of the operating agreement... Read More
July 6, 2022 | News |
“There is a great deal of love for the work Tom and Christine do, and for them as a family. Their stories and visits are always warmly received,” says William Loewen, pastor of... Read More
July 6, 2022 | People | Jessica Evans
Gail Schellenberg influenced the lives of thousands of people during her career as a teacher and principal in Mennonite high schools across Canada, and later as executive director... Read More
July 6, 2022 | People | Nicolien Klassen-Wiebe
How can Mennonites, with their long colonial history, work toward genuine reconciliation with Indigenous peoples? Mennonite Church British Columbia’s Indigenous Relations Task... Read More
June 24, 2022 | Web First | Daisy Belec
It is true that the impacts of climate change on the planet’s future are unfairly shouldered by youth and children. Mennonite Church Saskatchewan made space for youth to explore... Read More
June 22, 2022 | News | Emily Summach
After two years of outdoor ceremonies and air hugs, the Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) community gathered at Bethel Mennonite Church on April 30 to observe this year’s... Read More
June 22, 2022 | News |
Over the past several years, numerous historians have highlighted how different Mennonite communities in Europe before and during the Second World War were entangled with and even... Read More
June 22, 2022 | News | Rick Cober Bauman and Ann Graber Hershberger
As part of a five-week series focused on land, place and community, members of Calgary Inter-Mennonite Church went on a walk through their neighbourhood. The original idea for the... Read More
June 22, 2022 | News | Jessica Evans
Ernie Hildebrand intended to spend his life farming along the banks of the Cypress Creek, where he grew up in south-central Manitoba. And while Hildebrand, now 80, and his wife... Read More
June 22, 2022 | People | Will Braun
In the middle of Montreal’s Plateau-Mont-Royal neighbourhood is a small and much-loved community centre, the Maison de l’amitié (MA) or House of Friendship. This unassuming brick... Read More
June 22, 2022 | People | Annika Krause
Three guest speakers will engage the theme of witness at Mennonite Church Canada’s Gathering 2022, to be held in Edmonton, Alta., from July 29 to August 1. The theme of the event... Read More
June 22, 2022 | People | Virginia A. Hostetler
As millions of civilians continue to flee the devastation of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, organizations like MCC partner UMAN (Charitable Foundation Uman Help Center... Read More
June 8, 2022 | News | Jason Dueck
The small town of Black Creek, British Columbia, showed its generosity with a sale for Ukraine relief, organized by United Mennonite Church, on May 29. The town has a population... Read More
June 8, 2022 | News | Amy Rinner Waddell