Canadian Mennonite

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.

4 weeks 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.

1 month ago | canadianmennonite.org | Will Braun

Not long after M23 rebels captured the city of Bukavu in eastern DRC in February, my colleague Susan Fish spoke with a Mennonite pastor and doctor in Bukavu (article here). On the day after government forces in South Sudan placed the main opposition leader under house arrest last week, creating massive uncertainty in an already uncertain country, I spoke with Pastor Reuben Tut of Edmonton South Sudanese Mennonite Church (that article is yet to come).

1 month ago | canadianmennonite.org | Will Braun

Parlant depuis son domicile à Bukavu, en République Démocratique du Congo (RDC), le 23 février, Josué Seleman a raconté des troubles dans la ville de Bukavu depuis l’entrée des rebelles paramilitaires M-23 dans la ville le 14 février, trois semaines après avoir capturé la ville de Goma dans l’est du pays. Seleman est médecin et aussi le pasteur d’une église de la Communauté des Églises des Frères Mennonites au Congo, le plus grand groupe Mennonite de la RDC, avec presque 100,000 membres.