Young adults are being called to come together at New Year’s for a conference called re:TURN (to Jesus). It’s an urgent call, says Randy Friesen, general director of MB Mission.
At 16, Henry H. Regehr saw his entire family killed before his eyes. He fled Ukraine, immigrating to Canada, where he became a pastor at Steinbach (Man.) MB Church. Despite that trauma, Regehr “chose the way of Jesus; the way of love and forgiveness,” says grandson Wes Janzen, a member of Bakerview MB Church, Abbotsford, B.C. “His example continues to inspire me.”
Find language to include women, Find language to include women, re: June; Eldership and leadership not the same, re: March; More ways to share the gospel, re: January
Congolese Mennonite Brethren church (CEFMC) leaders as well as leaders of the Mennonite Church of Congo and Evangelical Mennonite Church of Congo, and their partners will be meeting this month in Kinshasa, DR Congo, to develop curriculum that integrates Anabaptist-Mennonite beliefs, values, and ethics into the classrooms of the more than 300 primary and secondary schools that the national Mennonite churches manage in cooperation with the DRC government.
First-year student Candace Bighead was often seen around campus doodling in a notebook at Bethany College, Hepburn, Sask., during the school year. But, the 200 hours the Prince Albert, Sask., woman poured onto these pages weren’t a distraction from homework – the illustrated notebook was the major assignment for her Introduction to Jesus and the Gospels course.
Awards go to Mennonite Brethren individuals – New movie sparks debate – EchoLight Studios announces 6 films to be released – ICOMB confession study manual translated
The president of the Mennonite Brethren training institute in Quebec brought encouraging news to B.C. and Manitoba this spring: God is working to revive what some had believed was a dying theology school. And the resuscitation is coming at a dizzying pace.
CMU enhances infrastructure – DR Congo to develop curriculum integrating Anabaptist-Mennonite beliefs – Churches bombed in Nigeria – Skype, other VoIP services criminalized in Ethiopia – Wounaan receive official certificate for lands – MCC responds to drought in Mexico – Amendment Act unanimously adopted
For the celebration of his 90th birthday, Corny Braun’s family gathered in Coaldale, Alta., June 9, and put him to work: the retired pastor and Bible school instructor gave a short sermon about the unusual baptism of the Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8:26–39), and baptized five family members.