Tag: Pastors in Exile

  • Bible trivia event generates spirited competition

    Bible trivia event generates spirited competition

    As people gathered for the Bible Quizzing for Grown-ups event on Sept. 30 at the Huether Hotel in Waterloo, the room buzzed with conversation, but when the quizmasters began reading questions from the Gospel of Luke, the room went quiet. The mood was light-hearted, but definitely competitive as eight teams listened intently and searched their…

  • ‘Preach it!’

    ‘Preach it!’

    Hands on his stomach, Allan Rudy-Froese walked a group of young preachers through exercises designed to make them feel at home and centred in their bodies by learning to recognize the part their abdominal muscles and their mouths—lips, tongues, palates and jaws—play in the delivery of a sermon. “Preaching is a physical art,” the associate…

  • Studying the Bible through a feminist lens

    Studying the Bible through a feminist lens

    Around 10 women and female-identifying people sit in a circle at Erb Street Mennonite Church in Waterloo, every week, drinking tea and discussing biblical texts through a feminist lens. Jessica Reesor Rempel, 29, a member of Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church in Kitchener, started Feminist Bible Study to create a space for women to discuss issues…

  • A biblical call—to justice and peacebuilding

    A biblical call—to justice and peacebuilding

    Jessica Reesor Rempel enjoys bringing people together and helping them find meaning. She recalls an incident just before Christmas a few years ago, when she was thinking about going into ministry. She was home with her siblings and their partners on the family farm in Markham, Ont., and everyone was about to go for a…

  • Church geeks serve PiE

    Church geeks serve PiE

    Both Jessica Reesor Rempel and Chris Brnjas are fond of puns, as perhaps only geeks are. Self-professed “church geeks,” they kicked off their new ministry, Pastors in Exile (PiE) at the Queen Street Commons café in downtown Kitchener on Sept. 27, 2015, with many pies being consumed by the 85 people who attended. Taking off…