Churches celebrate unity among believers and God’s faithfulness with anniversary remembrance. Recently, two MB churches celebrated landmark anniversaries. Dalhousie Community Church, Calgary, “sprang out of the strong vision of a …
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For people struggling with a wide range of mental health disorders, such as bipolar, depression, and anxiety, Evergreen Heights Christian Fellowship in Simcoe, Ontario is now offering a weekly support …
The agenda was full – with reports, workshops, worship, and three sermons – and so it clipped along, with next to no discussion from the floor. For all its efficiency, …
CMU reaches milestone; Pre-budget vigils held by religious communities; China – more Christians than Communists?; North Korea ranked worst persecutor of Christians; DVD to combat suicide; New Canadian School of …
Introducing Habtemicael Beraki & Senait Mehari, Katrina Funk, Roger Friesen, Richard (Dick) Benner Farewell to Darlene Klassen, Dan Block
The Choco region of Colombia, home to 14 Mennonite Brethren churches, experiences regular flooding due to rainfall, but in early 2008, the town of Istmina experienced a new kind of …
The death – and the life – of a retired Mennonite Brethren pastor made front page news in Saskatoon’s Star Phoenix Jan. 13. Victor Nickel, 83, died in a pedestrian-vehicle …
Last fall, B.C. government officials tried to close down Arnold Community Church’s after-school program on the grounds it constitutes a daycare, a regulated business. For more than a decade, the …
Conference ranks high on Christian workplace survey The Canadian conference executive board meetings, held January 30–31, in Abbotsford, B.C., for reporting, discussion, and decision-making were also a time for celebration. …
If you are looking for Ernesto Unruh, you may just find him on his hands and knees with other members of the congregation, painting the floor of the church in …
Demonstration causes arrests; Cross the Street conference; Global Dictionary of Theology released; Land donated to CMU; Restrictions on Christian activity in Burma; Humanist Association advertisements rejected; World’s poorest families receive …
Introducing Gord Fleming, Lucas Plett, Terry Schellneberg, David Balzer Farewell/Changes for John Longhurst
An interview with Doug Heidebrecht Last July, after teaching at Bethany College in Hepburn, Sask. for 16 years, Doug Heidebrecht moved to Winnipeg to become director of the Centre for …
Former adviser to Paraguay’s president tells of four years as cabinet official When Nicanor Duarte Frutos, then president-elect of Paraguay, asked Ernst Bergen, a successful Mennonite entrepreneur, to join his …
“We tend not to mince words,” admits pastor Mark Danyluk. After two flat-out congregational meetings, Boundary Community Church members reached a basic consensus. They will not expand into a new …