“We need to listen to one another and engage charitably with others’ positions,” says Fitch, keynote speaker at the Equip Mini 2021: Engaging in Healthy Conversations Around Difficult Topics in the Church, the November 19-20 event for pastors and church leaders.
Abe Dueck’s new book, Mennonite Brethren Bible College: A History of Competing Visions “is also the story of Mennonite Brethren in Canada, combining evangelical and Anabaptist impulses. Sometimes the two didn’t work well together.”
Maria Loewen’s faith is unshaken through 100-years of heartache and upheaval.
Long-time Winnipeg pastor remembered for faithful service Arno Fast “walked closely with God” By John Longhurst Kind. Gentle. Dedicated. Faithful. Those are some of the words used to describe Arno…
Ten congregations received funding through the first call for applications; second call for applications issued for fall.
Facing a severe funding shortfall, Canada’s Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary is making steep cuts in order to be financially sustainable. The school, located in Langley, B.C., is cutting three staff positions out of 13, not filling two vacancies and reducing hours and salaries for other staff…
The MDS Canada Spirit of MDS Fund issued 19 new grants to churches across Canada in May and June, including three Mennonite Brethren congregations.
Nine Mennonite Brethren congregations are among the first 21 churches that have received grants from the Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) Canada Spirit of MDS Fund.
Mennonite Disaster Service closes project in Grand Forks “We came as strangers. We leave as friends.” That’s what project director Peter Thiessen said at the October 2, 2019, closing celebration…
Like other Canadians, every year Ernie and Charlotte Wiens file their taxes. Unlike others in Canada, the LaSalle farming couple doesn’t send the federal government everything it says they owe…
It’s a new day for religion in Canada. That’s the view of Reg Bibby, a sociologist at the University of Lethbridge, who has been a long-time observer of religion in…
Church growth is a very popular topic. Church death? Not so much.
Many of us, when we look back on our student days, remember certain professors who, through their teaching ability or personal character, left an indelible and formative impression that lasted a lifetime. For me, one of those professors was Dr. Henry Krahn, president of Winnipeg’s Mennonite Brethren Bible College from 1974–82.
In spring 1978, Harold Jantz, then editor of the Mennonite Brethren Herald, received an unexpected visitor.
In 1963, Gene Stoltzfus was a volunteer aid worker in Vietnam. One day he happened upon a number of military helicopters landing at a nearby field.
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