Letters and Notices: Jan/Feb Issue
A hearty thank you for the Sept/Oct 2024 issue
I read the Sept/Oct 2024 issue at one sitting. From the early articles’ discouragement to the last three pages of inspiration, I felt I concluded on a high note.
Having been in an employer type conflict, having the absence of support (if not outright persecution), having left work due to illness, having signed a non-disclosure, I can identify with the MCC workers in your article.
My anger, my sense of my legal rights, my willingness to dismantle the organization if need be to publicize my story, my trauma with repeated assaults, and my powerlessness to affect any justice were real.
In all of the drama, over a period of years, I returned, again and again, to Layton’s description of the reality of God in me. I rejoiced that God declares vengeance to be his (after lamenting his lack of confidence in me participating in it—just a bit).
Lawyers and servants of the gospel have little in common, as we saw with the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Jesus. I was offered to hire lawyers, by well-meaning Christian advisors. After all, I was in the right!
I choose to follow Jesus. Costly, humiliating, frustrating, yet exhilarating. I lay my rights at the foot of the cross, and take up his yoke. Freedom!
– Name withheld
Heppner hired as EMC Director of Canadian Outreach [Jan-Feb issue]
Carl Heppner (right) with wife Kathy
The Personnel Committee is pleased to announce the hiring of Carl Heppner as Director of Canadian Outreach. Carl is currently the lead pastor at Fort Garry MB Church and has served there since 2013. His previous experience had him working with MCC in human resources and on the field in Bolivia. Some may remember Carl from his time as lead pastor at Braeside EMC (Winnipeg, Man.) in the early 2000s.
Carl has a master’s degree from MBBS in Fresno and completed his bachelor’s degree at Steinbach Bible College.
Carl will be joining the team starting mid-April. We look forward to welcoming Carl to our staff.
- EMC Personnel Committee