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A Life Transformed: Rachelle Demosthene

An aroma of roses, lilies and daisies fills the air in the small shop in Montreal. Vases, ribbons and cards line the shelves by the counter. Warm sunshine cascades through the windows and the atmosphere is busy in Pouvoir des Fleurs, translated Flower Power. Here Rachelle Demosthene creates beautiful floral arrangements and fills orders to meet her customer’s needs.

Rachelle Demosthene is one of MCEC’s newest pastors/church planters. She and her husband, Ronald Alexandre, minister together at Église de Dieu Réparateur de Brèches (RBD) in Montreal. She is a wife, mother of three daughters, pastor, and president and owner of a flower shop.

Discover how God has transformed her life, not once, not twice, but continually.

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Remember, Seek Peace, Renew Hope

The mountains misty air was a refreshing reprieve from the heat and humidity of Davao.

Our Mennonite Church Canada Learning Tour to the Philippines (made up entirely of participants from MCEC) was on our way to visit the last of three indigenous communities who partner in peacebuilding and coffee growing with Peacebuilders Community Incorporated (PBCI), the international Witness ministry led by Dann & Joji Pantoja.

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Unexpected Paths - Bock Ki Kim and Sook Kyoung Park

“Sometimes God plays unexpectedly with his children and leads us in totally unexpected paths that he has prepared,” says Bock Ki Kim, MC Canada International Witness worker in South Korea. Bock Ki and his wife, Sook Kyoung Park, have found that there lives are completely different from how they would have ever imagined them to be. 

Their call to South Korea was also an unexpected one. “Sometimes God twists our lives in good ways,” says Bock Ki.

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