The Mennonite Church Manitoba/Camps with Meaning staff wish you a blessed Christmas and a joyful New Year! An Advent Reflection For all that 2020 has brought; both suffering & grace, weakness & resiliency, solitude & reunion, we give thanks. For as the flames of advent remind us – hope, peace, joy and love have broken...
An Advent Reflection Along with my usual Advent candles, cookies and C.Ds, this year has also held another meaningful ‘c’. As part of the MCM Youth Ministers Fellowship, I have participated in Zoom Room Examen Prayer Circles. I discovered this space to be a most welcomed addition to my 2020. Together we have sat with...
An Advent Reflection They were on their way to Bethlehem, maybe a family gathering, maybe trying to avoid a family gathering… but they had Christmas by themselves, no choice. Immediate family… with animals in the house. Gifts delivered… maybe a bit late. Ours to appreciate this year.Darryl Neustaedter Barg – Director of Communications Gift cards from CommonWord are...
Music for Advent/Christmas online services “Where Shepherds Lately Knelt” is a Christmas song virtually recorded by the Faith and Life Male Choir. To view it, click on the image or on this link. The publisher of this song has given permission for free use of this song in your service. An Advent Reflection From time to time, I...
Support the winter clothing drive for Island Lake Anishinew Nation.Washed and gently used clothing items can be contactlessly dropped off at 264 Langside, Winnipeg until December 10. Cesar Flores, a young adult at Home Street Mennonite is supporting this First Nations Waste Minimization Project (search them on Facebook), which is shipping these items on behalf...
On the Eve – Annual MCM Youth Peace Witness Gathering 2020 – Video Enjoy this brief montage of the On the Eve online event. Note all the young people who are committing to pay attention to our history of commitments to and with indigenous peoples.Click on the image or this link to watch the video. Inter-Mennonite Chaplaincy...
Mennonite Church Canada congregations donate $40,000 to Mennonite World Conference’s COVID-19 relief fund Since the spring, our nationwide community of faith we has raised over $40,000 for MWC’s Global Church Sharing Fund to help our sister churches around the world who struggle to meet basic needs due to pandemic-response measures in their countries. We reached 80 per cent of our goal to match Mennonite Church Canada’s...
MCM Youth Peace Witness Event 2020 Edition is happening on Nov. 11 7pm. Gathering in on Zoom we will engage in: worship, storytelling, snack showcasing and signage creation. Entitled ‘Remembering …..our Resolves’, we will hear Esther Epp Tiessen, Matthew Veith and Steve Heinrichs reflect upon their work with the newly released Anthology ‘Be it Resolved’. Contact...
