Collections by Katie Funk Wiebe in Reclassified, in Festival Quarterly
On Nov. 9, Lynn Jost was publicly affirmed as president of MB Biblical Seminary (MBBS). It’s a role he’s been filling as acting president since Sept. 2008, then as the seminary board’s choice for president beginning in June 2009.
“If God met our needs in this magnificent way a year and a half out,” says Canadian conference event planner Michelle Penner, “we’re excited about what will happen as we gather together [in July for Celebration 2010].” The planning team includes Canadian conference executive director David Wiebe, communications director Cam Rowland, Penner, USMB executive director Ed Boschman, USMB administrative secretary Donna Sullivan Penner.
Eight years into its existance, a B.C. church plant is growing so fast that its leadership is urgently looking for ways to handle the expansion.
Calling all MB writers, artists, and photographers!
Conference speaker Thomas Yoder Neufeld’s beautifully articulated challenge to open the windows of understanding in worship of Christ was augmented by two concurrent plenary options and four workshops.
The Urban Saint: The Harry Lehotsky StoryAuthor: Paul H. BogeEngineer Paul Boge’s latest literary effort, The Urban Saint, is a biography of Winnipeg legend Harry Lehotsky. Author of two works of fiction, a biography of a Kenyan street children’s rescue ministry founder, and a full-length feature film, Boge leapt at the invitation to write the life story of minister, activist, inner city resident, community organizer, father, husband, and friend Harry Lehotsky.
A new Mennonite World Conference map shows that Mennonite, Brethren in Christ, and related churches (national conferences) can now be found in 80 countries around the world.
They had been three good days of sitting with the brothers and sisters of our conference and wrestling together about the language of our common faith. How do we confess Christ in a pluralistic culture?
The Christmas season holds in holy tension the extremes of the incarnation, between the “Lord of lords, and king of kings” of the Hallelujah chorus, and the lullabies cooed because God came as an infant.