Conrad Grebel offers virtual youth events for congregations across Mennonite Church Canada

Grebel’s Virtual Youth Event: Purpose, Calling and Connection serves two purposes: it provides pastors and youth leaders a well-deserved break from planning a virtual event for their youth and it offers youth a chance to learn about Grebel from current students.

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Mennonite Church Canada and Christian Peacemaker Teams create internship opportunity in 2021

Mennonite Church Canada’s Indigenous-Settler Relations (ISR) program has partnered with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) to create a six-month internship for a young leader within the nationwide church to participate in nationwide peacemaking and solidarity work.

Allegra Friesen Epp is from Winnipeg, Man., and graduated in 2020 from Canadian Mennonite University with a degree in Biblical and theological studies and peace and conflict transformation. She is a member of Home Street Mennonite Church.

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Congregations launch new websites through MC Canada congregational website hub

Fifteen congregations have launched new websites through the Mennonite Church Canada congregational website hub.

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Mennonite Church Canada issues call to prayer for Myanmar

Mennonite Church Canada calls on our nationwide community of faith to pray for the people of Myanmar. Pray also for our Myanmar siblings here in Canada. They are deeply concerned for their loved ones and the effect that recent actions will have on peace within Myanmar.

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“The intersection of peacemaking and storytelling is where I feel alive”: Common Read author discusses peacemaking during online webinar

When McRay was 11 he went on his first trip to Israel and Palestine. He has made 13 trips since then and undertaken graduates studies in conflict resolution at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. Telling stories of conflict resolution has become his life’s work.

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Mennonite Church Canada congregations match $50,000 donation for MWC COVID-19 fund in 2020

Mennonite Church Canada's Joint Council approved a $50,000 donation to the fund in May 2020 and asked congregations to match the amount in their giving for the rest of the year. Congregations across the five regional churches gave $50,946 in 2020, which means Mennonite Church Canada's total contributions to the fund were over $100,000.

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