Doug Klassen Returns to MCEC to Speak at Annual Church Gathering

MCEC is pleased that Doug Klassen, MC Canada Executive Minister, will be speaking at this year’s Annual Church Gathering in April. Doug will guide us in  reflecting on how we are inspired by the hope we find in Jesus, leaning into 1 Thessalonians 1. 

Doug is a preacher and a teacher and has a deep love for the Church. He and his wife, Rose, live in Manitoba. “I’m excited to be returning home to speak at this year’s Annual Church Gathering,” says Doug. “It was my experiences in the congregations of MCEC that instilled in me a deep love for Christ and the Church and prepared my heart to hear a call to ministry…and I am so incredibly grateful.”

Consider the Birds: Point Pelee Pre-ACG Contemplative Nature Walk April 26

Join MCEC Eco-Minister Wendy Janzen for an afternoon excursion to Point Pelee National Park. The park is just 16 km south of UMEI, and is famous for the spring bird migration. Come and enjoy the unique Carolinian forest, the Lake Erie shoreline, spring wildflowers, and whatever birds and wildlife we find.

Friday, April 26
12:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Rehoboth Inner Healing Church Join MCEC

Rehoboth Inner Healing Church, located in Toronto, ON, is a small congregation worshipping in the languages of Tigrinya and English. Paulos Berhe is pastoral leader for this congregation.

Founded in 2017, most of the congregation are recent immigrants (within the past decade) from Eritrea and northern Ethiopia. The congregation desires to be a disciple-making congregation for all nations. They recognize this will take time as many in the congregation continue to adjust to life in Canada.

Mennonite Disciples Swahili Church (Ottawa-Gatineau) Join MCEC

Mennonite Disciples Swahili Church (Ottawa-Gatineau) is a congregation of 30-45 individuals who meet on Sunday mornings for worship and prayer. Pastors Cryspin Isenge and Garant Sungura provide pastoral leadership for this congregation.

Through prayer meetings, discipleship training and serving in different areas of the church, members are growing in their faith together. “God has been strengthening us,” says Pastor Garant. “We are growing together in Christ and serving each other in love and respect.” They hope to start a Swahili Bible School in the next year and are praying to find a permanent place to worship together.

FreeChurch Joins MCEC

FreeChurch is a congregation with a mission to be a light in their city – Toronto, ON.

Planted in 2001, FreeChurch began meeting in the heart of downtown Toronto. They are a young and dynamic congregation. They have an active children and youth ministry, serve communion every Sunday, have launched an Intentional Community home in Kensington Market, and have assisted in planting two other congregations in their brief history.

Shalom Worship & Healing Centre, Guelph Joins MCEC

Shalom Worship & Healing Centre, Guelph is located in the heart of Guelph and is a group of 170 people who worship in Tigrinya on Sunday afternoon. The congregation, diverse in its membership, gathers for worship, prayer and community outreach.

Shalom, Guelph began meeting in 2018, renting space in a community centre. The congregation has begun an English worship service that serves the youth and young adults from both the Kitchener and Guelph locations.