Registration is now live for Amplify! Youth Gathering 2022 Registration for Youth Gathering 2022 at Camp Valaqua in Edmonton, July 31 to August 4, (ages 12-18), is now live at www.mennonitechurch.ca/amplify. The early bird registration deadline is April 4. Read a pastoral letter regarding Ukraine https://www.mennonitechurch.ca/article/13094-a-pastoral-letter-regarding-ukraine Mennonite World Conference president J. Nelson Kraybill offers prayers and encouragement in a letter addressed...
Leaders of Mennonite Church Canada issue call to join in climate-emergency response Leaders of Mennonite Church Canada are calling on the members, congregations and regional churches of Mennonite Church Canada to respond to the climate emergency. This document (available at www.mennonitechurch.ca/climate-action) includes six initiatives that “reflect our working commitments as a nationwide church.” Also included is a recommended...
Leaders of Mennonite Church Canada issue call to join in climate-emergency response Leaders of Mennonite Church Canada are calling on the members, congregations and regional churches of Mennonite Church Canada to respond to the climate emergency. This document (available at www.mennonitechurch.ca/climate-action) includes six initiatives that “reflect our working commitments as a nationwide church.” Also included is a recommended...
Join the Nationwide Virtual Choir for Mennonite Church Canada Gathering 2022. Instructions and files at www.mennonitechurch.ca/gathering2022 Submissions welcome until Feb 13. Mennonite Church Canada executive ministers issue statement on recent Freedom Rallies https://www.mennonitechurch.ca/news/12830-statement-on-freedom-rallies-by-mennonite-church-canada-executive-ministers Mennonite Church Canada and MC USA partner on prevention and accountability project The new resource will incorporate and build on existing procedures and policies used by both...
Gathering 2022 virtual choir – submissions due Feb. 13 Calling all singers! Join voices across the country in singing “Greater Things Than These,” a song commissioned for Gathering 2022 and written by Phil Campbell Enns. For the music and instructions on how to upload your recording visit https://www.mennonitechurch.ca/gathering2022 Mennonite Church Canada executive ministers issue statement on recent Freedom Rallieshttps://www.mennonitechurch.ca/news/12830-statement-on-freedom-rallies-by-mennonite-church-canada-executive-ministers...
Working on the Doctrine of Discovery In 2016, Mennonite Church Canada responded to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Call to Action 49 by passing a resolution to formally repudiate the doctrines of discovery and terra nullius. These legal fictions justified the seizure of Indigenous lands by white and Christian peoples, and they still impact Canadian law. Our resolution committed to establishing a...
INDIGENOUS-SETTLER RELATIONS Working on the Doctrine of Discovery In 2016, Mennonite Church Canada responded to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Call to Action 49 by passing a resolution to formally repudiate the doctrines of discovery and terra nullius. These legal fictions justified the seizure of Indigenous lands by white and Christian peoples, and they still impact Canadian law. Our resolution committed to...
Mennonite Church Canada 2021 annual report to come The annual report from Mennonite Church Canada will be available through CommonWord on Jan. 15, 2021. Conflict at Wet’suwet’en continuesPlease pray for Wet’suwet’en water protectors who are currently asserting their sovereignty in the face of yet another large-scale mobilization of militarized police. On Jan. 4, Wet’suwet’en water protectors executed a nonviolent, strategic retreat to...
Mennonite Church Canada 2021 annual report to come The annual report from Mennonite Church Canada will be available through CommonWord on Jan. 15, 2021. A thank you to donors, from Executive Minister Doug Klassen A big thank you to those who made giving to Mennonite Church Canada programs and ministries a priority over the past year. Despite continued uncertainty due to the...
Remember Bethlehem As you celebrate Christmas, pray for peace on Earth in Bethlehem. Visit https://bethbc.edu/10549-2/ for Christmas messages from faculty and staff of the Bethlehem Bible College. Use these Bible Live videos to follow the magi, the shepherds and the Holy Family (https://bethbc.edu/bible-live-videos/). Super typhoon hits Philippines Pray for PeaceBuilders Community and Lakan and Lakambini (Witness workers in the...
