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Saanich Community Church is a small Anabaptist-evangelical Mennonite Brethren community just north of Victoria, B.C. We strive to be the type of neighbours Jesus speaks about in Luke 10 who…

Refugees and Ambassadors: Mennonite Missions in Brazil Victor Wiens Self published Reviewed by Eckhard Goerz What is the subject? An examination of Mennonites in Brazil, arriving initially as refugees largely…

(Heard from Syria, Afghanistan, Germany, Canada…) We listened to the stories of our parents. You were faithful, you protected and saved them from desperate circumstances in lands far away You…

“The church must do its job, offering people charity and spiritual teaching, so that a person may be transformed,” says Safari Mutabesha Bahati. Mennonite Association for Peace and Development (MAPD)…

Venezuelan migrants received with care and compassion After fleeing two thousand kilometres from their home in Venezuela to escape political and economic turmoil, Carmen Sanchez and her family found themselves…

MCC’s 40 years of refugee resettlement in Canada More than 12,500 refugees have been resettled in Canada by Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) since negotiating an agreement with the government on…

Five years ago, when Westside Gathering, Montreal, pastor David Manafo invited local pastors to pray weekly about the results of a demographic study on West Island, “a vision of how we could work together started to form,” he says. Those prayers led to the formation of WIN, a group of churches that pray together twice a month for their neighbourhoods, promote each other’s outreach initiatives, and collaborate on community projects.

Worldwide there are 23 million refugees and 1.2 million in need of resettlement outside of their home country or region. Last year MCC helped groups resettle 442 people through the…

Worldwide there are more than 65 million displaced people—nearly double the population of Canada. The United Nations says this number is unprecedented and the need for humanitarian assistance is only…

“I didn’t want to be alone…. I wanted to live with people,” says Abdul.* Two years ago, Abdul fled his home country and sought refuge in Canada. He left behind…

MCC partners in Colombia are walking with people affected by more than 50 years of violence, months after a peace accord was signed between the government and the country’s largest…

  The world is watching Do you have a love-hate relationship with anticipation? It is often exciting to wait for a birthday package to arrive in the mail or a…

Title: At Home in Exile: Finding Jesus among My Ancestors & Refugee Neighbors
Author: Russell Jeung

At Home in Exile is a “spiritual memoir” about incarnational mission.