Katie Doke Sawatzky

1 month ago | canadianmennonite.org | Katie Doke Sawatzky

Tany Warkentin’s experience on a recent learning pilgrimage in South Africa has inspired her to deepen the connections and relationships she’s forming in her own life and work. “I don’t know if I’ve experienced one week that has caused so much reflection in so many different areas of my life,” Warkentin said. Warkentin, 45, is in her fourth year as Mennonite Church Canada’s liaison to ministry in Africa.

2 months ago | canadianmennonite.org | Katie Doke Sawatzky

Toronto filmmaker Dale Hildebrand has lots on the go. In late November, he was preparing for a hospital series, had just shot a TV pilot for an Indigenous cop show and was looking ahead to work on a Western and a horror–sci-fi–thriller “type of thing.”“I’m all over, but I just love the idea of being able to tell stories and play,” said Hildebrand.

Dec 27, 2024 | canadianmennonite.org | Katie Doke Sawatzky

Thomas Bumbeh talks about cultural commitment to care for aging parentsLiving with extended family under the same roof has made sense to Thomas Bumbeh on several different levels throughout the years. After arriving in Edmonton from Liberia in 2001, Bumbeh shared a house with three cousins. Now, the 50-year-old realtor and entrepreneur who attends Holyrood Mennonite Church lives with his own family—his wife and three kids—as well as his mother-in-law, his niece and her baby.

Dec 26, 2024 | canadianmennonite.org | Katie Doke Sawatzky

It’s been 20 years since Rebecca Harder, now 46, and her husband decided to permanently move into her family’s intergenerational home in Winnipeg’s western suburb of Charleswood. Harder’s grandparents, Mildred and David “Doc” Schroeder, who passed away last summer and in 2015, respectively, were the original proprietors, both of the 2,400-square-foot house and of the family’s ethic of intergenerational living.

Dec 13, 2024 | canadianmennonite.org | Katie Doke Sawatzky

As some churches within MC Canada and MC USA embrace the Narrative Lectionary, Canadian Mennonite caught up with Irma Fast Dueck to ask about the use of lectionaries in Mennonite worship. Fast Dueck is associate professor of practical theology at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) where she has taught for over 30 years. She attends Bethel Mennonite Church in Winnipeg, where she is regularly invited to preach. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.