Sep 10th, 2025
Called and Committed
Lorne Earl, a member of Holyrood Mennonite Church, Edmonton, is both called and committed to supporting the Camp Valaqua Hike-a-thon fundraiser, a yearly event since June, 2002.
MCA Priorities: * Nurturing Connections * Supporting Congregations * Celebrating Faith in Action
"For we are what God has made us,
created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life."
Ephesians 2:10
Did you miss the Camp Valaqua Hike-a-thon?
Enjoy a three minute video of the fun!
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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.
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.
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