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MCEC Annual Church Gathering - April 2022 Courageous Imagination: Living into the Journey
"What is the kingdom of God like? And to what should I compare it? It is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in their garden; it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air made nests in its branches"
- Luke 13:18-21.
MCEC Annual Church Gathering
April 29, 2022, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
April 30, 2022, 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Redeemer University, Ancaster, ON Friday Evening:
Becoming a Global Church with Jeanette Hanson,
Director Mennonite Church Canada International Witness
Building relationships is central to the work we do together as Mennonite Church Canada International Witness. We live and work with each other across the broad categories of race, ethnicity, language and politics. Through this work both our Canadian congregations and our international sisters and brothers receive the gift of a rich understanding of the diversity of the Body of Christ. We see God through the eyes of the other, experience God’s gifts together and spread the hope and healing of God’s love to the world.
Saturday:
Courageous Imagination: Listening for God Together as We Build a Shared Story
with Leah Reesor-Keller,
MCEC Executive Minister
Over this past year, we have been on a journey listening for God as we build a shared story about who we are and who God is calling us to become. Each conversation whether in-person or online was filled with hopefulness and deep insight. Leah will lead us through this past year's journey which has brought us to our gathering to prayerfully receive and consider updated MCEC identity and priority statements. Where is God at work doing new things? What seeds are sprouting around us?
Break Out Rooms
Call to Ministry - Marilyn Rudy-Froese, MCEC Church Leadership Minister
Climate Action within the Mennonite Church with John Reimer, MCEC Operations Director
Eco-Ministry with Wendy Janzen, MCEC Eco-Minister
I dream of a church in 10 years where... with Leah Reesor-Keller, MCEC Executive Minister
Intercultural Ministry with Fanosie Legesse, MCEC Intercultural Mission Minister
International Witness with Jeanette Hanson, Director, International Witness MC Canada
Palestine-Israel Network with Kathy Bergen, MCEC Palestine-Israel Network Working Group
Truth & Reconciliation Working Group with led by Working Group
Join us for an in person / hybrid Annual Church Gathering as we gather and reflect on the parable of the mustard seed found in Luke 13.
Everyone is welcome. Delegates from each congregation are expected.
Cost: $55 per attendee.
Full Member Congregation: Register 3 delegates plus a youth delegate.
Provisional Congregation: Register 2 delegates plus a youth delegate.
If your congregation has more than 150 members, elect one additional delegate for each additional 50 members.
Registration will open March 30, 2022.
MCEC Courageous Imagination Podcasts Listen Again or Listen For the First Time...
Episode Four: Who are we together? What is the Church that we are becoming?
with guests Kim Penner and Jack Suderman
Listen again or listen for the first time. On this episode of Courageous Imagination Mollee and Leah invite Kim from Stirling Avenue church and Jack from First Mennonite church for a conversation around unity, history and diversity in MCEC. We ask each other who do we want to become and what holds us together?
Courageous Imagination has been a journey of listening for God. At this year's Annual Church Gathering we will prayerfully receive and consider updated identity and purpose statements building on the feedback from the Courageous Imagination journey. Revisit the podcast as a way of preparing for Annual Church Gathering.
MCEC Pastoral Retreat Save the Date - June 9, 2022
A Day Set Apart for Pastors and Chaplains Mark your calendars for this important day at Hidden Acres Mennonite Camp set aside to reconnect with pastoral colleagues, worship God together and rejuvenate.
MCEC Palestine-Israel Network Working Group invites you to: Together Against Apartheid Campaign Launch and Online Rally
Sunday, March 20th at 1pm ET
Join Palestinian-Canadian human rights expert Diana Buttu, Winnipeg Centre MP Leah Gazan, Author-activist Desmond Cole and Israeli-Canadian peace activist Neta Golan. More information
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The constituency-based MCEC Palestine Israel Network Working Group serves the MCEC constituency by promoting awareness and education on specific issues and topics. The information and links are those of the Working Group and do not necessarily represent MCEC as a whole.
Upcoming MCEC Events
Youth Workers Zoom Call
April 5, 2022
4 p.m. ET Register Today!
MCEC Pastoral Conversations:
Leading and Lingering in Holy Week
April 12, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM online ET
with Carol Penner, Conrad Grebel
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