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Menno Court celebrates 50th and looks to expand
In July, a 170-unit residential building serving low-income seniors in Vancouver celebrated its 50th anniversary. Menno Court was built in 1974 as a joint project of Mennonite Brethren and General Conference congregations in Greater Vancouver. At the time, many senior Mennonites, particularly women, were living in unsuitable accommodations. In response to a 1969 call to…
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Providing a place to call home
Affordable housing “changes lives.” It is a “human right that enables individuals and families to flourish.” These convictions motivated Anne Nicholson and other members of the Markham Inter-church Committee for Affordable Housing (MICAH) to persevere with a recent building project despite the “unique challenges” presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Mike Clare, MICAH’s president,…
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‘This is what God calls us to do’
A group of churches in Markham is ready to break ground on its latest affordable housing project. Markham Inter-Church Committee for Affordable Housing (MICAH) is a group of 13 founding-member churches in the Markham area, including Hagerman Mennonite, Rouge Valley Mennonite and Wideman Mennonite. Since 1988, the committee has provided an estimated 5,000 homes in Markham,…
