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March 2014
Revolutionary Christian Citizenship
Author: John Howard Yoder
Temporarily residing in the United States brings some light to what makes a Canadian “Canadian” and an American “American.” For example, I’ve noticed our public healthcare system frees Canadians from a great deal of financial stress…Re: Chaplains: Leading the missional charge, EFC
Text and Context: Church Planting in Canada in Post-Christendom
Author: Leonard Hjalmarson, editor
Paradigm shifts aren’t new, even in the church. Throughout history, the pendulum has swung: different perspectives on faith, theology, mission, church life and ecclesiology become prominent while once-popular/widespread practices and disciplines fall into obscurity/disuse.Strangers at My Door: A True Story of Finding Jesus in Unexpected Guests
Author: Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Yes, stories are one of the book’s strengths, but to describe it as simply a collection of stories is to miss the point.The Colors of the Mennonites in Andhra Pradesh
Authors: David A. Wiebe & Paul D. Wiebe; photographs by Rufus Gurugulla
Behold the love of God written in the faces of his Indian children…WINNIPEG Norman Brown’s goal: to distribute the Plautdietsch (Low German) Bible free of charge to every home in Bolivia. Since Kindred Productions released De Bibel in 2003, the Winnipegger has…
DELTA, B.C. A Delta, B.C., church has raised $30,000 for its community’s hospice over the last four years. Almost half of that sum was raised last December in a single, record-breaking…
Dressed in colourful finery, seven immigrant women pulled up in front of the Winnipeg Art Gallery in a limousine Mar. 8, 2014. That night, they were the stars of Letters to our Children, a book and documentary that premiered to an audience of some 225 media, government, NGO and church people.
The 2014 convention of the Saskatchewan Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches, held Mar. 12–15, 2014, at Forest Grove Community Church, Saskatoon, marked the end of a long chapter in the book of SKMB churches: Ralph and Grace Gliege’s ministry.
Erna Jantzen’s fingers are rarely still as boards report and delegates discuss at conventions. Her nimble needles are always knitting something – like the 288 toques she has created for the pastors of the Saskatchewan MB conference.
Canadian Foodgrains Bank is monitoring the situation in South Sudan, where hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by conflict.
The newest MB church in Chilliwack, B.C., formerly known has Promontory Community Church, has been forced to reinvent itself.
Some 200 delegates and guests gathered Mar. 7–8 at Eastview Community Church, Winnipeg, for Assemby 2014, Mennonite Brethren Church of Manitoba’s (MBCM) annual convention.