Ever notice your church’s weekly calendar? There’s evening service, mid-week prayer, home group, kids clubs, youth groups, ladies fellowship, a conference, and committee meetings galore. There may be a fundraising …
Let me begin boldly. I believe there has been a colossal disenfranchisement of the laity in our churches. Parallel to this phenomenon is the professionalization of the pastoral ministry. I …
Sonrise Christian Fellowship in Penticton, B.C. began in November 2001 with five people meeting regularly to pray and study the Word of God. Within two weeks, four people came to …
Imago Dei, self-described as “A Community Drawn to Christ”, was born in October 2002 out of spiritual longing. There were at first 15 to 20 people who, while not disgruntled with their current churches, were burdened by a feeling that they wanted to do more than they could do in their churches.
There I was, up with the rising winter sun on a frigid Saskatchewan morning, thinking about how to transform our church’s lengthy mission statement into a concise, snappy declaration. Our …
The What We Believe series on the MB Confession of Faith: Article 16 – Work, rest and the Lord’s Day
We need a good metaphor to describe the Mennonite Brethren conference. In the past, it was “brotherhood”, but the gender specificity disqualifies this term instantly these days. This term may …
“You are trying to pass the MB Conference on to the next generation, and that is very nice-but maybe we don’t want it!” That attitude, expressed many times and in …
Believers baptism has been the standard practice of Mennonites since their origin in the 16th century, perhaps to the point that we sometimes take it for granted and do not …
What we believe What do Mennonite Brethren believe? Does our theology have any emphases that are different from the theology of other Christian denominations? We continue our series looking at …