Mennonite Church Manitoba Update

First Mennonite Church in Edmonton, Alta., will share their service with our nationwide community of faith this coming Sunday, July 26. Watch at https://www.mennonitechurch.ca/worshipservices.

Join our nationwide community of faith as we gather virtually for “Table Talk: Does the Church Still have Legs?”, a virtual study conference on the nature and identity of the church and the role of worship. Plenary speakers from Mennonite Church Canada-affiliated universities and colleges will present on themes of ecclesiology and worship. For more information, visit https://www.mennonitechurch.ca/tabletalk2020.

This spring Mennonite Church Canada donated $50,000 to MWC’s Global Church Sharing Fund to help our sister churches around the world who are struggling to meet basic needs due to pandemic-response measures in their countries. Now Mennonite Church Canada is asking its congregations to match this donation so that we collectively raise $100,000. Donations will go through regional churches. Click here for more info.

Churches and faith organizations across Canada have recently come together to pursue climate justice by forming an initiative called, “For the Love of Creation.” The goal is to facilitate climate conversation through theological reflection, congregational engagement and political advocacy. The most recent opportunity for action is a parliamentary petition calling on the Government of Canada to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, and to honour Indigenous rights, particularly around energy and infrastructure development. Learn more and sign the petition.

What are Indigenous activists and settlers doing to understand and challenge settler colonialism in Canada? Join a screening and discussion of the documentary film, Stories of Decolonization: Land Dispossession and Settlement on July 29 at 7 p.m. Steve Heinrichs, director of Mennonite Church Canada’s Indigenous-Settler Relations program, will be one of four panelists. Register here.