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Articles : Mennonite Church Canada

MC Canada seeks a response to decline in giving

WINNIPEG, Man. — Mennonite Church Canada has established a Future Directions Task Force to recommend a response to declining contributions.

MC Canada donation income falls short again

WINNIPEG, Man. — Donations to Mennonite Church Canada fell $237,000 short of budgeted income during the fiscal year that ended Jan. 31.

Awareness raised of wrongs done to indigenous children

WINNIPEG, Man. — Indigenous leaders are encouraging Canadian Mennonites to support healing and reparations for inigenous people who as children suffered what one advocate calls “cultural genocide.”
Sommerfeld church pulls out of MCC

The Sommerfeld Mennonite Church, a group of 13 congregations with about 2,500 members in Manitoba, has decided to withdraw as a member of Mennonite Central Committee.

Magazine warned about ‘political’ articles

A Canadian federal agency has warned a Mennonite magazine that some political material it has published could jeopardize its tax-exempt status.

Anabaptism’s Korean appeal

WINNIPEG, Man. — Erwin and Marian Wiens recently returned from Mennonite Church Canada service assignments in South Korea, where they found many eager to embrace Anabaptist teachings.

Canadian leader attends U.N. meeting on climate

WINNIPEG, Man. — For Mennonite Church Canada executive director Willard Metzger, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa, began with a twist of irony.

Sexuality motion sent to MC Canada board

WATERLOO, Ont. — A motion on sexual inclusivity was referred to the “care of the General Board” by its mover, Ben Borne, at Mennonite Church Canada’s annual delegate session July 7.
Canada delegates OK biennial assemblies

WATERLOO, Ont. — The Mennonite Church Canada Assembly in 2012 will mark the start of a two-year cycle of national church gatherings.

MC Canada reduces staff, budget

WINNIPEG, Man. — As the denomination cuts its buget, Mennonite Church Canada delegates at this summer’s assembly in Waterloo, Ont., will receive a recommendation to have assemblies every other year rather than every year.