Picture a hot and muggy morning in Kitchener, Ontario – you’re at the threshold of the basement entrance to First Hmong Mennonite Church. It’s 9:15 am and the sound of many voices emanates from that doorway. You hesitate; it’s loud, and you know it will be louder when you step inside. But you also smell coffee and you have the sense that people are eating something delicious… you’ll just have to take a deep breath and go find out for yourself.

Stephen Reist Joins Mennonite Church Canada as Database Coordinator

Sep 2nd, 2025

Stephen Reist Joins Mennonite Church Canada as Database Coordinator

By MC Canada release

Mennonite Church Canada welcomes Stephen Reist to the team as part-time Database Coordinator.

Stefan Froese Joins Mennonite Church Canada as Executive Coordinator

Sep 2nd, 2025

Stefan Froese Joins Mennonite Church Canada as Executive Coordinator

By MC Canada release

Mennonite Church Canada welcomes Stefan Froese as our new Executive Coordinator.

For Your Prayers

Focused on building self-sufficient congregations, Tom and Christine Poovong provide pastoral leadership to emerging Christian communities in northeastern Thailand.

In 2025 they moved to Ubon Ratchathani area working in two villages together with local church leaders who want to develop sustainable communities of faith through income generation and discipleship training. Presently they are working on organic agriculture projects as part of the Friends of Grace church network, FGC Food. Sweet potatoes and rice are rotated through the seasons for full year production.

Phimchanouk and Joseph Poovong are being home-schooled and connect with several families in the area for English classes.

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Global Companion of the Month

Meserete Kristos Church (MKC) is the fastest growing and largest Anabaptist/Mennonite denomination in Mennonite World Conference. For more than 20 years Mennonite Church Canada has supported the development of Meserete Kristos Seminary, which serves as a significant leadership training centre. More recently Meserete Kristos Church and Mennonite Church Canada have formalized a sister-church relationship with a focus on mutual encouragement, prayer, and support in areas of leadership development and church planting. MKC will host the Mennonite World Conference gathering in 2028. This summer at the MC Canada Gathering in Kitchener, Kelbessa Muleta Demena, vice president of MKC invited us all to come and meet them! Hear Kelbessa's testimony at Gathering.

Mennonite Church Alberta continues to sponsor two South Sudanese students who began a 4-year theological degree program at the Meserete Kristos Seminary, after the Edmonton South Sudanese Mennonite church requested help for their brothers and sisters in Christ in the refugee camps and surrounding areas in the Gambella region in West Ethiopia.

Gatjiak Tongyik (Simon) and Khan Gatkuoth Issac (Isaac), are doing well in their studies. Isaac has one year remaining while Simon has two. They return to South Sudan twice yearly and preach in their respective churches. MKS extends its sincere gratitude to Mennonite Church Alberta (MCA) for its continued support of these two South Sudanese students.

Photos: Isaac on the left, Simon on the right.

(Full update provided by Gishu Jebecha Ebissa, Meserete Kristos Seminary, via MC Canada International Witness)

The Apostle Paul left us with the mission of reconciliation!

What is God calling us to do as individuals, as localized church communities and collectively when it comes to nurturing conciliatory relationships with Indigenous neighbours?

How are we being called to contribute to the repair of harm done through our collective history of settler-colonialism?

The mandate of the Indigenous Relations Working Group is to connect, equip and resource

Connect – Connect MCA congregations with each other. Connect congregations with the national network through MC Canada Indigenous Relations.

Equip – Learn from one another. Host equipping events.

Resource – Curate valuable resources

Both Mennonite Church Alberta and Mennonite Church Canada are committed to working for climate justice and a sustainable future for all God’s creation and all God’s children.

Together in Hope, a collection of resources from Common Word, gathers together Creation Care and Climate Action resources, including the resource God's Green Earth.

Find these HERE.

Our MCA Creation Care Working Group appreciates your prayer support as they commit to inviting congregations and individuals into discernment regarding the ways we can respond to the climate crisis.

Follow their work HERE.

Already Happening: Reflections on Climate Jazz, Holy Participation, and the Essential Work of Collaboration

Celebrating Earth Month 2025

Prone to Wander: A Lenten Journey with Women in the Wilderness

Guiding Ministerial Leadership in Mennonite Church Canada : (GMLC)

Anabaptism at 500 Tool Kit: Ideas and Resources for Commemorating the 500th Anniversary of Anabaptist Beginnings

Mennonite Church Canada Environmental Sustainability Report

Worship Series – To Hope and Act with Creation

The Anabaptist Community Bible: 3 Editions

"Follow the Peace Path" Cards

Breaking Down, Gathering Up: Intercultural Church: 2024 MCA AGM Plenary Addresses

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