Weekly News
Welcome! Here you will find all the news and events that your congregation will need for the week - MCEC Prayer and Event Highlights, Mennonite Church Canada Updates, Announcements. Check out the hot buttons to ministry opportunities and pastoral transitions. Administrative Assistants: make sure to see the Bulletin Cut and Paste. Bookmark this page and check back regularly for updates. New items will begin to appear on Monday and the newsletter will come to your inbox on Wednesday.
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Bulletin Cut and Paste
Administrators: Thank you for sharing the MCEC story with your congregations. Please continue offering valuable feedback on how we can tailor announcements to empower you in your ministry.
Prayers
- Please pray for the MCEC community of congregations; this week we hold Floradale Mennonite Church in prayer. Steve Cox and Anita Schroeder Kipfer provide pastoral care to this community in Floradale, Ontario. God, guide Floradale Mennonite Church to grow in loving You deeply and caring for others with grace, compassion and faithfulness.
- Roberson Mbayamvula will be installed as pastor at Rouge Valley Mennonite Church on June 28, 2026. Pray for Roberson and the congregation as they begin their ministry together. Roberson continues to minister at Hagerman Mennonite Church. To share your encouragement and support with Roberson, you can reach him at roberson@rvmc.ca.
- Pray for Bock Ki Kim and Sook Kyoung Park, MC Canada Witness workers, as they faithfully serve in South Korea. Strengthen them as they support their adult children across distances, keep their family united in love, and bless their work in restorative justice and the development of peace resources for the church.
Mennonite Church Canada
International Witness
Thank God, with Mennonite Church Canada Witness worker Bock Ki Kim, that he was able to make a quick trip to Canada to be with their daughter as she graduated with her PhD. Sook Kyoung Park and Bock Ki Kim have parented adult children from afar as they serve in South Korea. Their son is presently teaching English in Japan. Pray that this family distant in miles from each other will stay close and supportive to each other. Pray for the continued restorative justice work being done and peace resource development for the church in South Korea.
Global Companions:
Isaiah 65:18 “Be glad and rejoice forever in what I am creating!”
God is creating something beautiful in us and with us in the global church. Get to know our Global Companions through glimpses of life, faith, and service. Each congregation in Mennonite Church Canada will be receiving a poster like this to remind people to check in on our global family of faith. If you don’t have a poster, visit this website for a bi-weekly update.
Young Adults:
Young adults from across Canada are encouraging Mennonite Church Canada to take their voices seriously as the church continues a nationwide discernment process focused on shaping its future priorities.
Read more about the work being done by young adults across Canada
Climate Action &
Indigenous Relations:
Indigenous Relations
Mennonite Central Committee and the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery - are partners and supporters of the Certificate in Reconciliation Studies at St. Stephen’s University. Courses can be taken as part of the certificate program or individually, either for academic credit or audited. Check out this upcoming course offering:
Joining the Vulnerable in Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery In this course, we will unpack the legal and policy structure that is the Doctrine of Discovery, the basis of land-tenure policy pertaining to Indigenous Peoples in North America and around the globe. Writer, speaker and activist Sarah Augustine will share her life experience as an Indigenous woman to demonstrate its current impact, and lead discussion about how to resist and dismantle it in the context of Indigenous cosmology.
CommonWord Bookstore and Resource Centre
Church Season Resources
Including materials from Together in Worship
New Savings!
We have a new distributor for Herald Press titles in Canada – with much better pricing – and we’re passing on the savings to you! Check out our listing. And you can, of course, still always borrow a copy.
2026 Summer Reading list
Our 18th annual summer reading list. Find just the right title for the lawn chair, hammock or beach blanket this summer.
An important conference held recently at CMU that featured John Munayer, Samuel Munayer, Sarojini Nadar, and Carmen Lansdowne as plenary speakers. View the videos.
Visit us again at commonword.ca and experience new navigational helps, including better ways of locating Mennonite Church Canada resources.
Ordinary Time (May 31 – Nov 22)
Nationwide Web-Hub - All MCEC congregations are welcome to join
If you are considering a change to your website, definitely consider the new nationwide web hub. It is much more than a web building tool. Contact Lisa Williams, Director of Communications, for more info.
Click below for information about the features, pricing, testimonials and links to launched websites.
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