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Invitations to coffee and cake… Late-night hospital visits… A schedule filled with meetings… …and always on call. Pastors have many excuses to set aside their physical health. Yet discipleship calls…

Every month, we take a team to prayer walk through the red light district of Pattaya, an hour from our home in Chonburi, Thailand. Last month, we walked and prayed…

There is something about a rooster that senses a turning before colour smudges the bleak horizon. There is something about a rooster that shrieks a turning before my snug body…

Take a moment to recall a recent worship service where you experienced the presence of God and left feeling spiritually “filled.” What created that sense of fullness for you? Was…

As in this stained glass panel of a spider web, there is also beauty and strength in the church of Christ as people of different ethnicities, cultures, and traditions work…

“I wanted to convey the trust and peace my grandparents had despite the storm that was around them,” says artist Krista Reimer. This painting depicts her great-grandparents on their homestead in Brokenhead, Man., after fleeing turmoil and violence in Ukraine (South Russia).

  In 2017, the Board of Faith and Life released Ordination: Principles and Practices, a booklet exploring how Mennonite Brethren affirm people in ministry service. Rick Hawreschuk is one MB…

I’m a rocket scientist. Well, not quite, but I worked as an engineer making rockets for eight years. I enjoyed it. But four years ago, I went through a 10-month…

“I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my…

I remember the day well: on Valentine’s Day 2009, our family of four moved to Squamish, B.C., with the call to plant a church in this beautiful town. Prior to…

As I travel the country, I am struck by the startling paucity of the gift of evangelist (see Ephesians 4:11). Evangelists are recruiters. They are storytellers, not because they are…