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Historic tour honours peace pioneers of War of 1812

Jonathan Seiling (right), consults with Carol Penner while leading tour groups in the Niagara region. Seiling is chair of the 1812 Bicentennial Peace Committee (Historical Commission), an organizing joint committee of Quakers, Mennonites and Brethren in Christ under the auspices of Mennonite Central Committee Ontario. He has initiated and coordinated a planning process to erect historical markers and monuments in Niagara region, and to prepare for commemorative events to mark the bicentennial of the start of conscientious objection in Canada. Penner, a pastor at the First Mennonite Church in Vineland, is host to guest bloggers reflecting on topics related to the War of 1812, like conscientious objection, women’s wartime history and the church’s relationship to government. The blog is found at warresistancein1812.blogspot.com.
Rick Cober Bauman, executive director of Mennonite Central Committee Ontario, addresses a tour group on the grounds of The First Mennonite Church of Vineland.
A memorial plaque erected by the Quakers (Society of Friends), one of the three historic peace churches.
A wagon wheel is the symbolic centrepiece of the Peace Garden built on the grounds of The First Mennonite Church of Vineland in 1986 to commemorate 200 years of Mennonites in Canada.

Candid scenes from relief sale

First Hmong Church in Kitchener make and sell spring rolls.
Meely Her, left, Sao Vang and Siasoua Vang from the First Hmong Mennonite Church in Kitchener enjoy a traditional Swiss Mennonite “tea ball” (spiced donut covered in granulated sugar).
Morgan (in the wheel chair) and Mae Baer shop for plants
Andrew Shantz (right) from the Shantz Mennonite Church, near Baden Ontario, plays with his friends (l-r) Owen Lass and Tesky Baldwin from the Waterloo-Oxford Secondary School.

Snapshot of Canadian Mennonites in action, week of April 23

Earth Day Tent Revival at Memorial Park, in front of the Legislative Building in Winnipeg, Sunday April 22. Some 350 people of all ages attended, 200 participating in a walk to the event. Brother Aiden John (aka Aiden Enns), in the hat, delivered the sermon and altar call. Charleswood Mennonite Church and Hope Mennonite Church were among the sponsors of the event, along with people from other denominations.
Sara Stoesz, left, and Linie Friesen, in the Altona, Manitoba Mennonite Central Committee thrift shop which they helped start 40 years ago. Thrift shops now contribute $7.2 million a year to MCC, an agency Will Braun says, in his analysis of a power shift from the US to Canada, is something broader than a legal system.
John Wideman (left), playing the role of draft dodger Sam Steiner (second from left), and Kimberlee Walker (right), acting the part of Sam's girlfriend and
Novelists Dora Dueck and Rudy Wiebe were two writers dominating the stage in a Sunday morning worship at the recent writers' conference at Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA called

11 Canadians beginn MCC assignments

JESSE EPP-FRANSEN of Winnipeg, Man., has begun a two-year assignment in Washington, D.C., as legislative assistant and communications coordinator with the MCC U.S. Washington Office. Epp-Fransen has a bachelor’s in English literature from Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg, and a master’s in English literature from University of Manitoba. He attended Charleswood Mennonite Church, Winnipeg.
CHRIS EWERT of Winnipeg, Man., has begun an assignment with MCC Canada, Winnipeg, as a Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Haiti project coordinator. Ewert has a bachelor’s in development studies and economics from The University of Winnipeg and a master’s in development studies from Oxford (U.K.) University. He attends Saint Margaret’s Anglican Church, Winnipeg.
MARTIN HARDER of Petershagen, Germany, has begun a two-year assignment in Abbotsford, B.C., as a daytime support worker with Communitas Supportive Care Society, a service provider, advocate and resource for persons living with mental, physical and/or emotional disabilities. He attended an Evangelical Free Bible study group in Germany.
STEVE JARNICK of Kitchener, Ont., has begun an assignment in Waterloo, Ont., as an assistant manager in the Generations Thrift Shop. Jarnick has a certificate in physics from Etobicoke (Ont.) Collegiate Institute. He attends The Meeting House, Kitchener.

'I walked where soldiers walked'

By the end of the week we had grown close to each other. Missionary Gerry Keener is on my right. The darker ones are from the mountain tribes.
The electricity and AC were off yesterday so we sat on the cool floor for our classes.
Mrs. Ly is a wonderful translator.
An entrance to the secret tunnels.
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