September 2015

Laura Kalmar resigned from her 10-year  ministry with the Canadian Conference of MB Churches, effective Aug. 21, 2015. In late August, Laura began work as associate director of communications and…

Canadian Foodgrains Bank welcomes the adoption of 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 193 countries, including Canada, during a session of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 25, 2015.

Pastors Credentialing Orientation (PCO) “affirmed and strengthened my connection and commitment to the MB family,”  says pastor Greg Bright of Gateway Community, Canora, Sask. Bright was one of 31 leaders who dug into their Mennonite…

An Olympian-turned-lawyer, an English language educator, a businessman with a passion for international development and a couple who have ministered for more than 45 years in Winnipeg’s North End are the recipients of Canadian Mennonite University’s (CMU) 2015 Blazer Distinguished Alumni Awards.

The eyes of Michael and Angelica Touchton welled up in humble appreciation as assessors specifically affirmed both of them in their call to lead the Living Room, a Mennonite Brethren church in…

Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) B.C. annual relief sale at the Abbotsford Tradex Sept. 18–19, 2015, raised more than $685,000 to support uprooted and vulnerable people in countries like Syria, Iraq and Ukraine. Funds come from the combined totals of sale items, food concessions, auction, donations and cyclathon.

The ad on the radio makes me smile: a daughter anticipates Mom’s annual pep talk on the potential for new beginnings. As a mother of four sons, I can relate. Those first…

Camp Crossroads celebrates 35 years at its current location in Muskoka, Ont.

  To leave or to stay? Many Syrian and Iraqi families face that question as the conflict continues to rage around them. International humanitarian assistance is dwindling and the patchwork…

*See January 7, 2016 update below* The Government of Canada has announced it will match all donations for the Syrian crisis response dollar-for-dollar through its new Syria Emergency Relief Fund.…

Representatives from 21 of the 22 national Mennonite Brethren conferences from around the globe met for the International Community of Mennonite Brethren (ICOMB) annual summit held July 26–29, 2015, at Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, Pa.

The 2015 Global Youth Summit (GYS) radically shaped my Anabaptist Mennonite faith. Not because I necessarily learned specific theological understandings, nor even saw God in a new way; no, my faith was transformed because my perspective of the church shifted.