Nationwide call to prayer for Sunday, June 7, 2020

The regional churches of Mennonite Church Canada are asking all their 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.

This nationwide call to prayer is a call for the church to boldly stand against racism that rips apart the social fabric of both of our countries. As a church, we speak for a God who made all persons in the image of the Creator’s likeness. We are called to raise our voices and prayers and denounce the evil that racism inflicts upon our fellow human beings.

(Includes links to worship resources and prayers for congregational use.)

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Nationwide Call to Prayer Against Racism

Nationwide call to prayer for Sunday, June 7, 2020

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

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Mennonite Church Canada donates $50,000 to Mennonite World Conference for COVID-19 relief fund; asks constituents to match or exceed donation

Mennonite Church Canada is donating $50,000 to the Global Sharing Fund operated by Mennonite World Conference / Congreso Mundial Menonita / Conférence Mennonite Mondiale (MWC) to help MWC-member churches struggling because of the COVID-19 global pandemic.

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Engaging the cultural "other"

Next week, May 31 at 2 pm, the group will be unpacking international experiences. New participants are encouraged. The last session is on June 28.

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Camp Valaqua Committee

Camp Valaqua is dedicated to proclaiming the Good News that God is the Creator, we are God’s people, and the earth is placed in our hands as a gift and a trust. 

Like so many other organisations, camp is in a place of uncomfortable limbo right now.  I’ve been asked a lot lately “How can we help?”

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Mennonite Church Canada study conference goes virtual

“Table Talk: Does the Church Still Have Legs?” will examine what it means to be the church and the role of worship. The conference will be held on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020, through Zoom, a virtual-meeting platform.

“Our separation as churches at this time is difficult, but it also presents an opportunity to take a step back and think critically about what it means to be the church,” says Kim Penner, who sits on the conference planning committee.

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Church in our everyday, everyday as church

Pamela Obonde has worked with children’s and women’s rights organizations in Kenya for the past 17 years. Three years ago she switched her focus to women in the church when she realized the same issues “out in the world” remained the same issues for women in the church. In an interview with Mennonite Church Canada she speaks about demystifying "mission" and working towards shalom in the church.

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Apply online for Student Bursary 2020-2021 school year

Anyone making plans to attend an Anabaptist post-secondary institution in the fall? Application portal is now open!

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Mennonite Church Canada live-stream service for Sunday, May 3, 2020

Ontario churches in Vineland, Hamilton and Niagara will live stream this Sunday's service.

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Camp Valaqua cancels summer camps

It is with a heavy heart that I write to let you know that Valaqua has recognized the need to cancel our summer camp program for 2020.

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U.S. and Canadian Mennonite Churches publish letter of encouragement during Holy Week

Mennonite Church USA (MC USA) and Mennonite Church Canada have published a letter of encouragement to constituents this week during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Congregations across Mennonite Church Canada offer online worship services during pandemic

Mennonite Church Canada, in collaboration with its regional churches and their local congregations, will share worship services each week for congregations across our nationwide community of faith. These services are available through links on the Mennonite Church Canada worship resource webpage: https://www.mennonitechurch.ca/worshipservices. They will also be available on regional church websites.

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We are in this together

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Mennonite Church Canada offers pandemic preparedness web resources for congregations

As of March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) is now describing the global outbreak of the coronavirus as a pandemic. This move is not to incite fear but to motivate governments to ramp up their preparation efforts before the virus spreads more quickly in their own countries.

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Restoration of Relationship: Making peace with all creation

by Randy Heluza-DeLay

originally published in Leader magazine
Winter 2019-2020 issue

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Fund for theological education now extends to pastors ministering to congregations

Mennonite Church Canada’s church leadership ministers are pleased to announce that pastors currently ministering to Mennonite Church Canada congregations can now apply to the Company of 1000 fund to help cover the tuition of academic courses they wish to take alongside their ministries.

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New websites launch for Mennonite Church Canada and regional churches

Mennonite Church Canada is pleased to announce the launch of new websites for its five regional churches and for the nationwide church.

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One of first mission workers to Colombia leaves 75-year legacy of ministry

After 103 years and 44 days of life, Mary Hope Wood Stucky died Feb. 8 in Bogotá, Colombia, leaving a legacy of mission work spanning three quarters of a century.

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Chrisitans provide masks in Wuhan communities

Christians provide masks in Wuhan communities 

“God loves you and is walking with us through this difficult time.”

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AIMM asks for prayer over violence in Burkina Faso

AIMM asks for prayer over violence in Burkina Faso 

Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission (AIMM) asks us to pray that God restores peace to the continually deteriorating security situation in Burkina Faso.

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MCEC pastors return from Thailand

Pastors visited Tom and Christine Poovong.

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Mennonite Church Canada offers resources to help us learn about and from Wet'suwet'en

Indigenous-Settler Relations 

Mennonite Church Canada offers resources to help us learn about and from Wet’suwet’en 

Over the last weeks, the eyes of Canadians have turned to Wet’suwet’en territory in north-central British Columbia.

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ISR organizing bus journey NAIITS 2020

Mennonite Church Canada’s Indigenous-Settler Relations (ISR) is organizing a bus journey to take 50 Indigenous and settler persons to this year’s NAIITS gathering in Sioux Falls, South Dakota—June 4-6, 2020.

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Global Youth Summit representatives chosen to go to Indonesia

Mennonite Church Canada is pleased to announce the five regional young adults who will represent the nationwide church at Global Youth Summit (GYS) 2021 in Salatiga, Indonesia.

GYS takes place July 2-5, 2021, four days before the 18th Mennonite World Conference Assembly. The event is for youth ages 18 to 30 and provides an opportunity for young Anabaptists to connect to share news, experiences, and struggles from different continents and countries, in order to enrich the faith of all. The theme is “Life in the Spirit: Learn, Serve, Worship.”

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MCA's Donna Entz honoured as CMU distinguished alumni

Congratulations to Donna Entz, director of MCA's North Edmonton Ministry., who's vibrant faith and passion are an inspiration! MCA is privileged and honored to have Donna working on our staff.

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