After a considerable process of prayer and discernment, the executive board of the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches (CCMBC) has appointed Willy Reimer to the position of executive director.
The wilderness can be a harsh teacher. Last summer, when a bear entered our campsite on a canoe trip, I was reminded that I was an intruder in another creature’s territory and that my presence offered opportunities and dangers to us both.
Explaining prayer can seem like a daunting task. After all, you’re telling a person about communicating with Someone they cannot see, feel, or touch, Someone who most likely won’t talk back in an audible voice (though it would be pretty cool if that happened).
After four years of conversation, leaders of the International Community of Mennonite Brethren launched a global scholarship fund at their annual meeting in Germany, May 2010. Final details are now in place.
Henry J. Schmidt, president emeritus of Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary, professor of evangelism and mission (1976–2003), and president (1993–2003), died peacefully Feb. 8 in Reedley, Cal. A memorial service was held Feb. 16 at Reedley MB Church.
It was my turn to be on call during Easter. My pager went off shortly after midnight. “Lawrence, one of our patients is crashing. We need your support here,” the nurse from the palliative ward said. A woman in her 80s was dying and her family was not ready to let her go.
The Mennonite Brethren church in Panama is concentrated in Darién province, a jungle zone bordering Colombia. The region’s indigenous groups and Afro-Panamanians were thrown together during December flooding caused by …
Permission to Speak Freely: Essays and Art On Fear, Confession, and Grace
Author name: Anne Jackson
Permission to Speak Freely is born out of a single question Anne Jackson asked on her blog two years ago: “What is one thing you feel you can’t say in the church?” The responses Jackson received to this question, combined with her own reflections on a faith journey characterized by both ambivalence and love for the church, forms the heart of the subject matter of this book…She was lying with her back to me. By then, she needed help turning in her bed, and there was no room at the other side for me to sit to face her. But even with her back to me, I could be with her. I could wait with her. As I waited, I reflected on what this gracious 88-year-old woman of God had come to mean to me.
Snapshots of parish nursing