"Broken as the world is broken": setting our sights on God’s Shalom vision

Sara Wenger Shenk will be the plenary speaker at “Table Talk: Does the Church Have Legs?”, Mennonite Church Canada’s virtual study conference on October 24, 2020.

Wenger Shenk shares about her reaction to the question “Why the Church?” and how crises like COVID-19 and justice movements like the Black Lives Matter help inform her answer to such a question.

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Guiding healing for those harmed

An interview with MCC’s Jaymie Friesen on the importance of third-party support for victim-survivors of abuse.

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“Listen to the stories of the oppressed”: stories from centres of conflict around the globe

When Lukasz Firla and his fellow team members finally arrived at the house of the family, they were searching for it was around lunchtime. They hadn’t planned on inviting themselves for a meal, but the family welcomed them. Afterwards, the family invited the team to accompany them to the gravesite to observe a period of mourning for the loss of their son, Himdat Osman Darwish, a young man who had been killed by a Turkish bomb exactly one year ago, while driving his car in Iraqi Kurdistan.

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CommonWord launches new website for easier Anabaptist resourcing

On June 1, 2020 CommonWord launched a new website at www.commonword.ca that is mobile-friendly, easily searchable, and beautifully designed. Our goal is to make Anabaptist and related resources easily found for the pastor and the parishioner, the student and the casual reader – and have them available in multiple forms: to buy, borrow or access online.

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MCM Announces Michael Pahl as new Executive Minister

The MCM Board is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Pahl as the next Executive Minister.

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Nationwide Call to Prayer - June 3, 2020

MCM in solidarity with its sister regions of Mennonite Church Canada, is asking all MCM congregations to set aside a specific time of prayer on Sunday, June 7, to join our sister churches in Mennonite Church USA as they lament the injustice and violence suffered by people of colour in the U.S.

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