In a land that closely resembles the place Jesus lived more than 2,000 years ago, his words still prove true. The people of Sidi, Burkina Faso, plant their fields with the tools and methods described in the New Testament. They draw water from wells, and feed their families with crops they harvest.
Alvin Thiessen completed the 800-kilometre pilgrimage on the Camino de Compostela. He reached the Cape of Fisterra, on the Atlantic coast, 90 kilometres past the city of Santiago de Compostela. (Photo by Alvin Thiessen)
Alvin Thiessen started his pilgrimage from Saint Jean Pied de Port, France, and tackled the Pyrenees Mountains on the first day. (Photo by Alvin Thiessen)
Pilgrims walk the highest point along the Camino, looking down towards Molinaseca, Spain. (Photo by Alvin Thiessen)
The Camino de Santiago path runs along a canal close to Carrion De Los Condes, Spain. (Photo by Alvin Thiessen)
The sea shell is the symbol of the Way of St. James (Camino de Santiago). Here it appears with a monastery in the background, in Samos, Spain. (Photo by Alvin Thiessen)
A wall painting near the city of Burgos gives humorous insight into the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage. (Photo by Alvin Thiessen)
After 10 days of walking, I come to a small town in Spain called Belorado. The day before, I had walked a gruelling 31 kilometres up and down hills, in warm and sunny spring weather. Maybe it’s the long walk and my feet are tired, or, maybe it’s the constant climbing up and down the hills, but something feels different under my left foot.
In June 1942, 3,000 Mennonites gathered at the Kitchener, Ont., train station to bid farewell to conscientious objectors (COs) bound for forest-fire fighting and tree-planting camps in British Columbia.
The 2016 Ralph and Eileen Lebold Fundraising Dinner, held on June 2, 2016, at Conrad Grebel University College, featured Arli Klassen, chief development officer for Mennonite World Conference, who spoke to the “Messiness of becoming the people of God.”
You planned a party for 200 people, with games geared for groups of 20. Food quantities have been tallied, and overnight lodging arranged for guests who are coming from far away. And then you find out that only a handful of the invited guests are able to come.
As a five-year-old resting in her mother’s arms at the bottom of a boat crowded with refugees, Nhung Tran could not have imagined the life she’s living now: a life as a doctor in Canada. A life in which she is responsible for bringing two families to safety as a sponsor.
The worldwide Mennonite family can now add Hmong to the growing number of ethnic groups embracing Anabaptism in Asia.
UPDATE: Youth Assembly 2016 has been cancelled, due to a shortfall in the number of registrations. See here for more information.
UPDATE: Youth Assembly 2016 has been cancelled, due to a shortfall in the number of registrations.
For the first time ever, Mennonite Church Canada youth are preparing to actively participate in organized discussions and votes taking place during the national assembly—God~Faith~People,—to be held from July 6 to 10, 2016, in Saskatoon, Sask.
