Some 400 children would go hungry in Abbotsford if not for school-based meal programs, estimates food bank director Dave Murray. What happens when there’s no school? “Dad, it’s up to you to do something about it,” said Murray’s adult daughter Sara Epp. And he did.
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In the 1950s, Jacob J. Klassen, Jacob P. Martens and Abram J. Friesen had a vision to care for elderly people in Abbotsford, B.C. With support from members of Mennonite Brethren churches in Abbotsford, Chilliwack and Yarrow, they founded Tabor Home Society in 1959.
The new Mennonite Central Committee B.C. headquarters building in Abbotsford, B.C., has been opened officially, with the MCC legacy featured prominently during the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Mike has had a place to live, but now he needs another one. And he needs a friend. “I did serious time in prison, but I have left crime behind me,” he says. He turns 60 in a few months.
Homelessness, like most difficult issues, doesn’t go away, although numbers rise and fall. A count of homeless people recently completed by MCC, Salvation Army and other agencies in Abbotsford, B.C.,…
Meditation on mortality I was 42 years old when I accepted the call to be lead pastor of Bakerview Church, Abbotsford, B.C., where approximately 50 percent of the members are seniors.…
Abbotsford B.C. Menno Place , one of BC’s largest campuses-of-care for seniors, announced the appointment of Karen L. Baillie as CEO, effective May 21, 2013. Baillie brings more than 30…
B.C.’s Menno Place celebrated its 60th anniversary Mar. 2 with a banquet that attracted 350 people and raised $40,000. Founding board member Jake Baerg recalls when a committee gathered in…
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Documentary records shift in local outreach
by Andrew DyckOutside the wallsElsinore MediaWorksLocal outreach is changing. Among Canadian evangelical churches, “local outreach” has often meant helping people to believe in Jesus so they can be saved. Increasingly, local outreach in many of these churches includes ministries of mercy and care for people who are marginalized.