The Messenger – A publication of the Evangelical Mennonite Conference

Dr. Harvey Plett: Great Significance in Obedience: ‘Your Will be Done on Earth as it is in Heaven’

The Lord’s Prayer 2019 By Dr. Harvey Plett Many of us memorized the Lord’s Prayer in grade school. The Manitoba Education Department prescribed daily Bible [...]
Our Daily Bread—And What About the Future?

The Lord’s Prayer 2019 By Kevin Wiebe Our culture is one that is full of differing diets: gluten-free, paleo, ketogenic—and that is just the beginning. Many of these [...]
Terry Smith: In Jesus of Nazareth, God is Revealed

By Terry M. Smith Prisons and slums, natural and human-made disasters and deaths, wars and other forms of suffering all illustrate that our world is far from what it should [...]
Kevin Wiebe: I Am the Weaker Brother

By Kevin Wiebe When you believe you are right about something, how do you behave? How do you treat those with whom you disagree? I’m not talking about issues of sin, here. [...]
Flo Friesen: Your Kingdom Come

The Lord’s Prayer 2019 by Flo Friesen I can still see and smell the setting where I first said the Lord’s Prayer. A two-room country school, oiled wooden floors, faded [...]

Benny and Ester Fehr Assigned to Bolivia

April 30, 2019

by Ken Zacharias, Director of Global Outreach Benny and Ester Fehr and their four children left for Bolivia in late January to begin ministry with EMC Missions. They arrived [...]
South Sudan: Amid a Civil War, He Plants a Church
Reflections on Our Connection to the EMC
Travis Zacharias, Paraguay: I Love to See People Follow Christ!

Covenant Membership, Baptism Occurs

June 13, 2019

by Kelly Rempel WINNIPEG, Man.—Three years ago Braeside EMC began to discuss its membership model through meetings, round table discussions and sermons. We realized our [...]
Teresa Enns Zehr Invited to be Pastor
Blumenort EMC: Baptisms, Eagle Lake Bible Camp
Crestview Fellowship: Outreach Events Held, Challenge Made

Letters June 2019

June 14, 2019

A Fine Article by the BCM by Ron Penner, Winnipeg, Man. The latest edition of The Messenger included a fine article written by the Board of Church Ministries regarding the [...]
Letters April 2019
Letter: Love Means Doing the Ordinary (from Ray Hill)
Wally Doerksen: Skills and Tools Needed To Help People

Pathway of Pain

June 13, 2019

Often attributed to Helen Steiner Rice If my days were untroubled And my heart always light, Would I seek that fair land Where there is no night? If I never [...]
I am Ambivalent About the EMC
Why I’m Glad to be an EMCer
Loreena Thiessen: Oh, the Places You Will Go!

A Note about a Note

June 10, 2019

A BCM Initiative for Learning from One Another While Building Unity By the Executive of the Board of Church Ministries You and I are not the same person! Shocking, I know! [...]
Two countries, one mission: MCC’s efforts to support all people on the Korean Peninsula
Government of Canada to Match Donations for Cyclone Idai Crisis
Holy Wanderings: A Guide to Deeper Discipleship

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