“Brothers” is a picture of both love and struggle as the younger brother is mediating between tears and laughter in the rough embrace of his older sibling.
August 2010
Cold and wintry day…
same work, same placeShe was all excited when they got home from school.
“I’ve got a new pen pal!” she announced.Photography Winner
Mathias Fast, Title: CanoaRobin Knox Title: The Lions of CarWash Rock Robin Knox lives in Prince Rupert, B.C., where she and her husband attend Cornerstone MB Church. Melissa Townsend Title: Inheritance: always enough…
Kingdom snow falls like seed on the fields on the roads piling up growing stopping everything like a parable Randy Klassen teaches Bible, literature, and music at Bethany College…
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Honorable mention prose: Grandpa Jacob’s bible
by ContributorI can hear everything through these walls. “I just don’t know what to do with him anymore; he seems so lost.” Mom’s on the phone with Grandma. She’s right. I…
She called it the Jesus bus. Actually, it was an ordinary transit bus that stopped near her place and took her downtown when the monotony and confinement of her condo…
Jazmine Lawrence Title: Mediterranean Sea at the foot of Mount Carmel (Haifa, Israel – November 2009) Jazmine Lawrence lives with her husband in Halifax, N.S., where they are a…
Through Fire and Water: An Overview of Mennonite HistoryAuthors: Harry Loewen and Steven M. NoltThrough fire and water by Harry Loewen – an MB who escaped Soviet Ukraine in the aftermath of WWII – and Steven Nolt has been revised and rereleased.
Churches who ask that God would bring people to their door may be surprised by how their prayer is answered. In the midst of dealing with the aftermath of a collapsed floor in their sanctuary, Central Heights Church leaders in Abbotsford, B.C., learned the nearby McCallum interchange would be expanded and relocated, bringing a roundabout very close to the church building.
Maurice Phillips, a commercial fisher of Plaquemines Parish, La., took a group of disaster management leaders out on a small boat to “see the oil” on June 7. This is the best way to witness the destruction of the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill, said members of the Grand Bayou.
For the people of Abbotsford’s Central Heights Church, it was a special thanksgiving service on June 27. It marked the end of two hard years since the floor collapsed at the front of their sanctuary during a full-house Starfield concert, Apr. 25, 2008.
This December, the third movie in the Chronicles of Narnia series will be released. Many of us are looking forward to the appearance of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (VDT hereafter) but right now, I’ve got a novel suggestion for you: read the book this summer.
At their afternoon service on June 6, the Pool – an MB congregation in Moncton, N.B. – celebrated the most ambitious project of their 11-year history. Just days before, they completed Express, a multi-disciplinary after-school arts program in cooperation with a local middle school. Pool member Ryan Hitchcock captured the overall sentiment: “There were a lot of smiles.”