Features Change happens in the kitchen An invitation to Gathering 2014 Responding to current theological issues Prayer map of Canada Walking through a financial review — toward mission Resourcing radical…
May 2014
This February, in her downtown seniors’ block, 93-year-old Anne Kroeker started a life-changing Bible study with her “younger” neighbours (in their 80s), half of whom haven’t attended church since childhood.
Daughters in the City: Mennonite Maids in Vancouver, 1931–61 Ruth Derksen Siemens Fernwood Press Wanted: a hard-working, clean-living (white) girl who won’t steal the jewelry. Found: Mennonite immigrant…
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Introducing a new mission statement
by Willy ReimerIn fall 2002, I attended Church Planting Canada’s congress in Montreal. Patrice Nagant, our current C2C Quebec regional director, toured us around Montreal and informed us of Quebec’s spiritual and…
Title: Jacob’s Choice, Return to Northkill, Book 1
Author: Ervin R. Stutzman
Jacob’s Choice is not another simple Amish romance, as the cover may suggest. It’s a skillfully portrayed, heart-wrenching story – based on history – of personal conviction, spiritual struggle, persecution, horror, loss, recovery and forgiveness.Jesus Feminist
Author: Sarah Bessey
What do you think of when you hear the word feminist?At Fraser Valley Gleaners, Abbotsford, B.C., more than 55 volunteers a day turn rejected produce into a nourishing just-add-water soup mix that’s shipped to people in crisis around the world.
When Mugu Zakka Bako arrived at the scene of twin bomb blasts on May 20, 2014, at a busy market in the city of Jos, Nigeria, he saw more than the destruction and injured people. He saw Muslims and Christians working shoulder to shoulder, helping to rescue people from the debris.
You can’t get very far into conversation with John Redekop before politics comes up. That, and his even greater passion – Christian camping, especially B.C.’s Stillwood Camp and Conference Centre.…
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Support for small-scale farmers critical in dealing with effects of climate change, says new UN report
by StaffWhen Robert Phiri, a small-scale farmer from Zambia, looks out on his maize field, he can’t help but worry. In the last several years, the changing climate means drought has affected his fields, and growing enough food to feed his family has become more difficult.
Art Birch of Ross Road Community Church, Abbotsford, B.C., has learned about leadership the hard way. Understanding leadership, he told BCMB leaders, starts with the theology of leadership. Scripture points…
Chapel, a monthly, trans-denominational South Vancouver youth worship rally that started 2012 in the South Hill Church building drew so many attenders it changed its venue to the larger John…
It was a happy ending to a story of trials and resolution at Camp Likely, the newest BCMB camp near Williams Lake, B.C. Co-director Patrick Hama (left) said, although there were 58 recorded personal commitments…
Delegates to the 2014 annual convention of the B.C. Conference of MB Churches at Cariboo Bethel Church, Williams Lake, May 2–3, 2014, were challenged to live out Jesus’ love…
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Mission, ministry and mothers in faith… many reasons to celebrate
by Laura KalmarThis month, the Herald is coming to you with a hefty 44 pages of celebration! In preparation for Gathering 2014, we’ve chosen to highlight some things happening within the Canadian…