Memories of migration
It’s been almost 100 years since 1923, when thousands of Mennonites from the Soviet Union began migrating to Canada. A train tour commemorating their journey will wind across Canada in the summer of 2023 to mark the anniversary. Ingrid Moehlmann, the event’s initiator, remembers her father’s final wish that started it all. “On his deathbed,…
Virtual tour of Mennonite museums and archives continues
The final round of “The Anabaptist Story Lives On: Virtual Museum and Archive Tour” kicks off on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021. The virtual series, presented free of charge via Zoom, highlights unique artifacts, photographs and documents that are part of the Anabaptist-Mennonie story. This round of the tour includes six events: Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021: “The…
‘We want to tell the story’
A Mennonite man escapes an ambush during the California Gold Rush because he had a fast horse. We know his story because he left behind a set of diaries. Another Mennonite stuffs his child’s doll with British and American currency, and smuggles it out of Russia in 1927. When his whole family is ordered off the…
Encounters with the church in Cuba
Sixteen Anabaptist Christians from Canada and the United States came to Cuba from Jan. 12 to 16 to learn about the church there. I was one of them. Jack and Irene Suderman of First Mennonite Church in Kitchener, Ont., organized our travel experience through TourMagination. Longtime students of Cuban history, economics, culture and politics, the…
