Apr 24th, 2025
Doug Klassen Gathering 2025 Invitation
MC Canada Executive Minister Doug Klassen provides a short video invitation for prayer for and attendance of Gathering 2025.
MCA Priorities: * Nurturing Connections * Supporting Congregations * Celebrating Faith in Action
"For we are what God has made us,
created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life."
Ephesians 2:10
And...coming up this summer
Gathering 2025
U30 Gathering 2025
Youth Gathering 2025
July 2-5, 2025
Kitchener, ON
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Focused on building self-sufficient congregations, Tom and Christine Poovong provide pastoral leadership to emerging Christian communities in northeastern Thailand.
In 2025 they moved to Ubon Ratchathani area working in two villages together with local church leaders who want to develop sustainable communities of faith through income generation and discipleship training. Presently they are working on organic agriculture projects as part of the Friends of Grace church network, FGC Food. Sweet potatoes and rice are rotated through the seasons for full year production.
Phimchanouk and Joseph Poovong are being home-schooled and connect with several families in the area for English classes.
Watch this space for a new International Witness feature soon.
Mennonite Church Alberta continues to sponsor two South Sudanese students who began a 4-year theological degree program at the Meserete Kristos Seminary, after the Edmonton South Sudanese Mennonite church requested help for their brothers and sisters in Christ in the refugee camps and surrounding areas in the Gambella region in West Ethiopia.
These two, Gatjiak Tongyik (Simon) and Khan Gatkuoth Issac (Isaac), are doing well in their studies. Isaac has one year remaining while Simon has two. They return to South Sudan twice yearly during holy days and preach in their respective churches. MKS extends its sincere gratitude to Mennonite Church Alberta (MCA) for their continued support of these two South Sudanese students.
(Full update provided by Gishu Jebecha Ebissa, Principal, Meserete Kristos Seminary, via MC Canada International Witness)
Continue to keep the people of Myanmar in your prayers as conflict there continues.
Many cities and villages are struggling with food shortages as the transportation links are being used by the military. Food prices have significantly increased. Internet lines have been cut creating communication challenges. Children haven’t been in school for two years, since the coup, and now idle youth are damaging their lives with drugs and alcohol. Some pastors are being tortured, arrested and some churches have been burned down.
Please pray for the Chin people both those in Myanmar and those who have left their homes and families behind. Consider making a donation to meet the urgent needs of the Chin people.
Both Mennonite Church Alberta and Mennonite Church Canada are committed to working for climate justice and a sustainable future for all God’s creation and all God’s children.
Together in Hope, a collection of resources from Common Word, gathers together Creation Care and Climate Action resources, including the resource God's Green Earth.
Find these HERE.
Our MCA Creation Care Working Group appreciates your prayer support as they commit to inviting congregations and individuals into discernment regarding the ways we can respond to the climate crisis.
Follow their work HERE.
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