Canadian Mennonite

2 weeks ago | canadianmennonite.org | Katie Doke Sawatzky

CommonWord hosted a book launch on March 6 for Mennonite Church Manitoba executive minister Michael Pahl’s book, The Word Fulfilled: Reading the Bible with Jesus. Fifty-three people gathered at Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg and 34 online. Published by Herald Press in 2024, The Word Fulfilled is Pahl’s sixth book. It examines the ways in which Jesus engaged with Scripture. “How can we actually follow Jesus in how he read his Bible?” said Pahl in his opening remarks.

3 weeks ago | canadianmennonite.org | Will Braun

Members of Edmonton South Sudanese Mennonite Church are deeply concerned about family and friends in South Sudan and the surrounding countries to which many have fled as hunger and turmoil grip the region. South Sudan is the newest nation state in the world—it came into being in 2011 after decades of war and hundreds of thousands of deaths—and one of the poorest, ranking 192 out of 193 countries on the UN Human Development Index.

1 month ago | canadianmennonite.org | Katie Doke Sawatzky

Adriana Appleton’s three-year-old daughter knows what her father’s job is—“Daddy works on the choo-choo trains”—but when it comes to Adriana’s work, all the toddler knows is that “Mama meets with the people.”It’s age-appropriately vague. Appleton, 33, is the executive director of The Micah Mission in Saskatoon. In that role, she meets regularly with federal inmates, individuals recently released after being in prison for causing sexual harm, and people on parole.

1 month ago | canadianmennonite.org | Will Braun

Dear Pastors, Leaders, and Members of our Church Family, Grace and peace to you in the name of our risen Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. In these days following the election, when some are relieved and others are disappointed—some joyful, others deeply frustrated—we are called to walk in ways that exude grace, humility and hospitality. We are invited to be open to possibilities that have not yet been considered.

1 month ago | canadianmennonite.org | Katie Doke Sawatzky

For 18 years, Sandra Sawatzky has been working with thread and fabric, embroidering pictures and text on large fabric panels that take years to create. The 67-year-old from Calgary, is exhibiting two works this spring. Her 2022 work, The Age of Uncertaint,y is at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery until early March and her 2017 piece The Black Gold Tapestry, a 67-metre long history of humanity’s relationship with oil, is part of a group show at the Museum of Design Atlanta, in Georgia until May.