“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 …
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“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 …
“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 Jonathan Simpson Title & congregation: pastor of youth and young adults, Bakerview Church, Abbotsford, B.C Start: Aug. 1, 2019 Education: BA in biblical studies, Columbia Bible College, Abbotsford Previous …
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 …
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,” …
Gathering 2018 | July 11–14, 2018 Forest Grove Community Church, Saskatoon _____ “How did we treat each other?” That, not the result of the vote, was the top concern of …
After graduating with her bachelor of nursing in 2011 and working a few years in palliative care, Janelda Cornfield of Sunrise Community Church, Edmonton, felt God leading her to work …