Tag: COVID-19

  • MC Canada offers pandemic preparedness web resources for congregations

    MC Canada offers pandemic preparedness web resources for congregations

    As of March 11, the World Health Organization is now describing the global outbreak of the coronavirus COVID-19 as a pandemic. This move is not to incite fear but to motivate governments to ramp up their preparation efforts before the virus spreads more quickly in their own countries. Mennonite Church Canada has updated web resources…

  • Mennonite World Conference cancels event, meetings in B.C.

    Mennonite World Conference cancels event, meetings in B.C.

    With the World Health Organization using the word “pandemic” to describe global infection from the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), Mennonite World Conference leadership has cancelled the March Renewal 2027 public event and April executive committee meetings that were scheduled to take place in Abbotsford, B.C. “We are cognizant of our global witness,” says César García, MWC’s…