Events Calendar

MCC B.C. Festival and Auction, at the Tradex in Abbotsford.

MCC B.C. annual general meeting, at South Abbotsford Church, Abbotstord.

Women’s retreat, at Camp Squeah

Spruce River Folk Festival, at Spruce River Farm, 20 kilometres north of Prince Albert. Music and food in support of landless first nations in Saskatchewan.

“Refresh, refocus, renew,” a mini-retreat with Betty Pries. To learn more about this year-long prayer and visioning process, visit mcsask.ca.

Ted & Co. performs “Discovery: A Comic Lament,” about the Doctrine of Discovery, at Home Street Mennonite Church, Winnipeg, at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call Laura Funk at 204-489-7016.

Westgate Mennonite Collegiate’s 13th-annual golf tournament at Bridges Golf Course, Winnipeg.

Sept. 9: Fifteenth annual Head for the Hills fundraising ride for mental health. For more information registration or support for cyclists, visit edenhealthcare.ca.

“Colour distinctive: Art and Spirituality” exhibits by Angela Lillico and Genevie Henderson, upstairs at the Mennonite Heritage Centre Gallery, Winnipeg.

MC Canada special delegate assembly to discuss and vote on the future direction the national and area churches will take. As more information becomes available, it will be posted online at news.mennonitechurch.ca/releases.

“Mennonite/s Writing VIII: Personal narratives of place and discernment” conference, at the University of Winnipeg, featuring Miriam Toews and Rhoda Janzen. Presented by the Chair in Mennonite Studies and the “Journal of Mennonite Studies.” For more information, email Royden Loewen at r.loewen@uwinnipeg.ca.

Annual camping weekend at Hidden Acres Mennonite Camp, New Hamburg. For more information, call 519-625-8602.

Folk and gospel songs, led by Mike and Diana Erb, at the Detweiler Meeting House, Roseville, at 2:30 p.m.

July 31-Aug. 4: Peace Camp, a day camp held at Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo. For more information, or to register, call Alison Keyes at 519-885-0220 ext. 24291.

Riverdale Mennonite Church, Millbank, hosts its public closing service, at 10 a.m. Guest speakers include Glenn Zehr, Troy Watson and Jim Brown. A time of socializing and refreshments will take place after the service.

“Sing a new song” from the “Hymnal: A Worship Book” supplements, led by Mark Diller-Harder, at the Detweiler Meeting House, Roseville, at 2:30 p.m.

Until May 2019: “Sites of Nonresistance: Ontario Mennonites and the First World War” exhibit of letters, photographs and documents from the Mennonite Archives of Ontario, at Conrad Grebel University College, Waterloo.

The 18th Believers’ Church Conference: “Word, Spirit and the renewal of the church: Believers’ church, ecumenical and global perspectives”; at Goshen (Ind.) College. For more information, email John Roth at johndr@goshen.edu.