When I visited my mother in the nursing home a few years ago while she still had more access to speech, I was privileged to watch her happiness as she ate her first meal after several days on a liquid diet necessitated by stomach flu.
Monthly Archives
October 2009
Pastor Ruben Zuniga, who just celebrated 19 years of ministry in B.C., went on his first mission trip – to his homeland, Mexico – this summer.
Two Grade 11 students from MBCI in Winnipeg were the winners of this year’s Henry E. Plett Memorial Award for writing a family history.
In 2007, Mennonite Disaster Service, Canadian Mennonite University, and other church groups, together with the International Centre for Infectious Diseases, held Canada’s first-ever faith community summit on pandemic preparation, in Winnipeg.
With more than 40,000 copies sold to over 400 churches in Canada and the U.S., including 50 Mennonite Brethren churches, the Mennonite Publishing Network (MPN) Close to Home pamphlets about dealing with personal issues and problems are proving their usefulness.
Thrilled with progress re August; Response to Jim Holm re August; Workers, not leaders reAugust; A great tool re August; Actions, counteractions re August; No resemblance re August; Challenging issues re August; Look at the faces! re August
The Dark Night: A Gift of GodAuthor: Daniel P. SchrockThis book covers a topic not well understood in evangelical circles – the dark night of the soul. Author Daniel P. Schrock is an American Mennonite pastor who also works as a spiritual director.
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A meditation on loss, refugee-making, and the feast of grace
by ContributorThe Mennonite family – ten children – is stuffed into a boxy 1930 Chrysler, the younger ones standing or sitting on laps. Southern Alberta’s chinook wind sandpapers the car’s windows…
Kindred Productions releases new book; Twitter reaches limited audience; Money raised for Mennonite Church USA and Mennonite World Conference; Rhubarb magazine celebrates 10th anniversary
The United Church of Canada’s 40th General Council made the news this summer for its proposals on the Middle East, but less publicized was the implication of Mennonites in the controversial subject of Middle East political response.
Introducing Curtis Klassen, Kristen Willems, Kris Peters, Chris Friesen, Michael Pahl, Les Klassen, Doug and Naomi Enns
Farewell to Barry FalkThe Canadian MB study conference coming up later this month, in Saskatoon, is an opportunity “to re-establish our commitment to Christ as our Lord, as the only way, as our centre,” says executive director David Wiebe.
“Some experts speculate that the last few decades will be some of the poorest documented in history because the information created or the media it resides on will not stand the test of time,” says Conrad Stoesz, archivist at the Mennonite Heritage Centre and the Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies.
The year was 1945. World War II had ended just months before. Clara was busy packing and getting ready for a journey into the unknown, the Belgian Congo. She and…