Two Mennonite businessmen have been named to the Order of Canada by Governor General David Johnston, out of a total of 91 recipients recognized. Ron Schlegel of Waterloo, Ont.,... Read More
News & Stories
Are you feeling unsatisfied with the state of democracy in Canada? You may not be the only one. A recent poll released by the charitable organization Samara found that only 55 per... Read More
January 2, 2013 | Young Voices | Casey van Wensem
Why does business matter to God? As a business major at Canadian Mennonite University this is a question that has kept me up at night as I think about what I want to do with my... Read More
January 2, 2013 | Young Voices | Ethan Heidebrecht
After almost 28 years in her position as area church youth minister of Mennonite Church Saskatchewan, Anna Rehan is retiring. In her time in this role, she came to understand the... Read More
January 2, 2013 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
Cindi Powell and her daughters Erica and Emily are the owners of this house in St. Catharines, Ont., built through a partnership between Habitat Niagara and the local Mennonite community.
Habitat for Humanity Niagara has been building houses in the Niagara Peninsula since 1993. This year the house built on Tasker St. in St. Catharines was a partnership Habitat for... Read More
January 2, 2013 | Back Page | Story and photo by Maria Klassen
At the end of the grade 10 Christian Studies class at Westgate Mennonite Collegiate, students are asked to do a project in which they reflect upon a foreign religious practice.Read More
January 2, 2013 | Focus On | by Sarah Currie
New public service announcements produced by MennoMedia are being distributed to 13,000 radio stations across the U.S. A grant from Schowalter Foundation helped with funding.Read More
January 2, 2013 | Artbeat | MennoMedia
Mutabazi
Shadrack Mutabazi is a Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) student who is trying to concentrate on his studies in spite of the trauma that plagues his family and his country... Read More
January 2, 2013 | God at work in Us | By Lyndsay Wright
At a Brotherhood meeting in Altona, Man. last November, the Sommerfeld Mennonite Church decided to withdraw as one of the member churches of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). The... Read More
January 2, 2013 | God at work in the World | Story and photo by Will Braun
Wesley Driedger (left) and Elaine Dueck and other volunteers wash and dry cans of meat at the MCC meat canning operation in Winkler.
Elaine Dueck, 15, eagerly anticipates the annual 64-hour around-the-clock meat canning operations when Mennonite Central Committee’s (MCC) mobile meat canner comes to her home... Read More
January 2, 2013 | God at work in the World | Gladys Terichow
Laureen Harder-Gissing, archivist at Conrad Grebel University College, examines some of the items from Lorraine Roth’s collection that recently found a new home at the Mennonite Archives of Ontario.
A lifetime of persistent and meticulous research into the lives and family histories of Amish Mennonites has been donated to the Mennonite Archives of Ontario at Conrad Grebel... Read More
January 2, 2013 | God at work in the Church |
One stop on a guided bus tour was the Furby Street building where members worshipped from 1945-1955. This 105-year-old building is now used by the St. Demetrius Romanian Orthodox Church. It is also the birthplace of Canadian Mennonite Bible College (now CMU).
In 1937, a tired and aging Rev. Benjamin Ewert sat in the old Eaton’s waiting room in downtown Winnipeg. As young people drifted through, he studied their faces to see if he could... Read More
January 2, 2013 | God at work in the Church | Story and photos by Evelyn Rempel Petkau
Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) helps women get loans to develop small businesses, such as this woman in Ghana who sells salt at the market.
Although the Saskatoon chapter of MEDA is considered to be a small group, their dreams to help others are big. Each year, this group of business people raises money for one... Read More
January 2, 2013 | God at work in the Church | By Karin Fehderau
Path #12: Grace and justice for the vulnerable By Laura Loewen, Being a Faith Church Task Force member Jesus is portrayed as “consistently interpreting Scripture in reference to,... Read More
January 2, 2013 | God at work in the Church |
In preparation for next September’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Christians in B.C. gathered to learn about the First Nations worldview. Brander McDonald, Mennonite Church... Read More
December 12, 2012 | Young Voices | Rachel Bergen
When I think of Mary, the chosen mother of Christ, I think of one iconic image. I think of the Catholic version of the eternal virgin on a pedestal. This doesn’t seem right, and I... Read More
December 12, 2012 | Young Voices | Brandi J. Thorpe
Praying 25 times over the course of five days will change the way you look at God, yourself and others. Just ask Maddy Loewen. This past June, the student at Winnipeg’s Westgate... Read More
December 12, 2012 | Young Voices | Aaron Epp
Last Christmas Eve, Todd Hanson encountered road blocks on his way to church in Chengdu.
On his way to church last Christmas Eve, Todd Hanson found the police had erected roadblocks to facilitate crowd control. Hanson lives in Chengdu, China, where he and his wife... Read More
December 12, 2012 | Back Page |
What happens when an ethno-religious group feels their way of life is threatened? For over a century, before the October 1917 revolution in Russia, Mennonites in Ukraine had... Read More
December 11, 2012 | Artbeat | Reviewed by Henry Neufeld
Mbonye Buhunda, 38, her husband and their six children, including Mapenli, 11 and Ishara, 13, pictured, have been displaced repeatedly.
Many of the people displaced when rebel group M23 recently took control of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo had already been displaced a number of times earlier this year... Read More
December 11, 2012 | God at work in the World | By Linda Espenshade
Over the last number of years the St. Clair O’Connor Community (SCOC) Board has reviewed and renewed its mission statement and constitution. Through these evaluations many... Read More
December 11, 2012 | God at work in Us | By Walter Friesen
Path # 8: We are part of a larger story of “God’s love affair with the world.” By Willard Metzger, Being a Faithful Church Task Force member “Scripture calls us to remember that... Read More
December 11, 2012 | God at work in the Church |
After a Winnipeg shelter for women and children fleeing domestic violence lost out on $450,000 from the city , local recording artist and record label manager Michael Petkau Falk... Read More
November 23, 2012 | Young Voices | Emily Loewen
Peter Worsley coordinates MCC Alberta’s community chaplaincy program.
Mennonite Central Committee's chaplaincy programs in Alberta and Ontario are facing a fund gap following the Canadian government's decision to change how it supports community... Read More
November 23, 2012 | Web First | Gladys Terichow