People and Events

“We want to do more,” says Carson Samson, Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches operations and communications director, regarding CCMBC’s resource department, Kindred Productions. Until now, Kindred has been primarily…

“When your name is Christian Press, you’d better live up to it,” says Ron Wood, general manager. Now called CP Printing Solutions, the printing company CCMBC fully purchased in 1964 to print the Herald will close in February 2020 as its general manager retires.

“We can’t outsource leadership development,” says Ewald Unruh, a church planting coach with Multiply. “It belongs in the local church.” In June 2019, Multiply – the mission agency formed after…

Drawing on her teaching background, lay leader Heather Epp took a dif-ferent approach to worship leading one Sunday morning at Blaine Lake (Sask.) Gospel Chapel. She handed out two fill-in-the-blanks…

Hellos Mike Engbers Title & congregation: lead pastor, Parliament Community Church, Regina Start: Mar. 4, 2019 Education: BA in philosophy, The King’s University, Edmonton; MDiv, Taylor Seminary, Edmonton; DMin, Carey…

Fewer musicians, lower sound levels – not recommendations you find in most church growth books. But for Coast Hills Community Church, Surrey, B.C., turning down the volume was just what…

HELLOS Scott Tolhurst Title & congregation: lead pastor, Clearbrook MB Church, Abbotsford, B.C. Start: March 1, 2019 Education: BTh, MDiv, DMin (cand.) Previous ministry: pastor of adult ministries, South Abbotsford…

It’s a great blessing to learn from those who are different than you and be together as one, said Derek Parenteau at the 88th convention of the Ontario Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches Feb. 22–23, 2019, at Glencairn Church, Kitchener, Ont. Plenary speaker at the event, he serves among Indigenous people near Parry Sound, Ont.

Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparing, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to…

How can a church respond to hunger – not only spiritual, but physical – in its community? In May 2013, a vision to transform an unused grassy lot at Central…

Doug Klassen accepted the call to become executive minister of Mennonite Church Canada, effective June 2019. He has pastored in St. Catharines, Winnipeg, and Calgary. He served on MC Canada’s…

Candace House opened in November 2018, less than a block from the Law Courts building in Winnipeg. A long-cherished dream of the Derksens’, this homey space is an escape for…

CCMBC payroll service is a gift for administrators “The benefit of using CCMBC’s payroll service is having a friendly person to talk to who understands ministry and knows MB churches,”…