Winter supper for warm weather friends; Hospitalidad Cristiano in the Fraser Valley
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While the Liberal party of Canada gathered in Vancouver to officially recognize Michael Ignatieff as their leader, two provincial MB conferences were also holding their annual conventions, in Abbotsford, B.C., …
The 2009 convention, as conference minister Steve Berg put it, was the third in a series to make the B.C. conference’s annual meetings more productive.
Canadian Mennonite University officially launched its communications and media program Apr. 20 with a celebration honouring Elmer Hildebrand (pictured, middle with his wife Hilda and CMU president Gerald Gerbrandt) of …
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is considering major organizational changes in order to work more closely with Anabaptist churches around the world in peace-building, development, and relief.
Introducing Kelly Wiebe, Stephen Philps Farewell to Shannon Storey Churches closing: Westview Community Church, The Meeting Place (B.C.)
Fifty-one Mennonite Brethren participated in this year’s Exponential: National New Church Conference in Orlando, Fla., Apr. 20–23. MB church planters, provincial extension directors, pastors, and their spouses met with Regenerate …
Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary has announced the reduction of several full-time staff and faculty positions, as well as immediate across-the-board reductions to health and retirement benefits.
The Quebec MB conference, Association des Églises des Frères Mennonites du Québec, met for their annual convention April 4 at Église Saint-Jérôme in Montreal. Close to 50 delegates, ministry workers, …
When there’s a need in the neighbourhood, who do you call? In Grand Forks, B.C., the answer is Karren Donald of Gospel Chapel. On full-time staff at the church, Donald’s …
Canadian Foodgrains Bank donations; Mennonite Your Way directory available; Mennonite Publishing Network, 2009; Reversal of Alzheimer effects; MDS responds to public health emergency; Erland Waltner of MWC passes away; Chinese …
Several U.S. Ten Thousand Villages stores resisted the new contract required by the board effective Apr. 1. The uniform contract for all stores requires 80 percent of profits to come …
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On a mission for the church to succeed
by Karla BraunAn interview with Ewald Unruh Ewald Unruh served as pastor and church planter in Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia for 13 years, and, since 1992, has been working for the Canadian …
Five years ago, Willow Park (MB) Church in Kelowna launched its first early-spring youth rally. It was a hit, and each year kept growing. Then, last year, the organizers ran …
“If you had told me seven years ago that my passion for sports and ministry is actually ministry, I’d think you were crazy!” That’s how Jack O’Halloran, the man responsible …