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Celebrating 500 across Canada
While there have been no reports of baptisms taking place in Canadian Mennonite churches on January 21—the 500th anniversary of the first Anabaptist baptisms—Mennonites across the country marked the start of this quincentenary in a variety of ways. Vancouver-area congregations gathered for a joint service at Peace Mennonite in Richmond, B.C., on January 19. The…
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Crokinole boards sold for China mission
Wooden game boards made in Yarrow, B.C., and a crokinole tournament at this summer’s Mennonite Church Canada Gathering 2019 have made a connection with modern-day Chinese Christians and a 16th-century Dutch Anabaptist martyr. Darnell Barkman, pastor of Yarrow United Mennonite Church, had received a crokinole board for his birthday last December, and after playing on…
