Being Community

We are striving to be a Christian community of healing and hope.

Here are some of the ways we build community together.

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Quilt Tying

Quilt tying for MCC happens on the first and third Tuesdays of the month from September - April.

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Caring for Aging Parents 

Pastor Rachel sends out a monthly email to those who are caring for aging parents. You may access previous emails here.

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For Families

This page of faith and family resources is still being developed.

Caring for Parents

Caring for Parents - December 2020
December 31st

Caring for Parents - December 2020

Merry Christmas Caregivers!

However similar or different it may have been, I hope that you had a Christmas filled with love, joy, and even some laughter. 

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Caring for Parents - November 2020
November 24th

Caring for Parents - November 2020

Dear Caregivers~

I just finished reading Jann Arden’s memoir Feeding My Mother: Comfort and Laughter in the Kitchen as My Mom Lives with Memory Loss in which she shares part of her journey into caregiving for both of her parents, who happen to live across the street.

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Caring for Parents - August 2020
August 27th

Caring for Parents - August 2020

Dear Caregivers~

How is it the end of August already? It felt like I just planted my garden and now I’m pulling plants that didn’t produce and harvesting from those that did.

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‘Deconstructing race’: understanding the breadth of our diversity
August 24th

‘Deconstructing race’: understanding the breadth of our diversity

When we lived in Nanchong, China, our three-year-old daughter Claire came home from Kindergarten quite indignant that some of her classmates had said her hair was blond. “My hair is black!” she declared. I looked at the golden curls on her head and had to break it to her, “No, your hair is not black.” Years later a neighbour in that same city looked at me closely and declared, “When you first came here you looked like a foreigner and now you look really Chinese, your nose has even gotten smaller.”

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Caring for Parents - June 2020
June 29th

Caring for Parents - June 2020

Dear Caregivers~

I hope and pray that you have found moments of joy and renewal amidst the work of learning how to be a caregiver in the face of a pandemic. 

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Caring for Parents - May 2020
May 26th

Caring for Parents - May 2020

Even youths will faint and be weary,
and the young will fall exhausted;
but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength,
they shall mount up with wings like eagles,
they shall run and not be weary,
they shall walk and not faint.
~Isaiah 40:30-31

 

 

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After Wet’suwet’en: Re-membering the Church’s “Future Directions”
May 19th

After Wet’suwet’en: Re-membering the Church’s “Future Directions”

I was in Wet’suwet’en territory when COVID-19 social-distancing protocols were implemented across Canada. For two weeks I served as a legal observer with Christian Peacemaker Teams. I took vacation time to leave my family in Winnipeg in order to join Gidimt’en clan members and land defenders out on their Yintah (ancestral homeland). I wanted to support their nonviolent struggle for the recognition of their jurisdiction in the face of a government determined to build a fracked-gas pipeline on their territory, at the cost of Indigenous peoples’ full consent and Earth Mother’s well-being.

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Caring for Parents - April 2020
April 28th

Caring for Parents - April 2020

Dear Caregivers~

While this email still comes just once-a-month, know that these days you are in my thoughts and prayers often.

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Caring for Parents - February 2020
February 27th

Caring for Parents - February 2020

Dear Caregivers,

Yesterday was Ash Wednesday. In many Christian traditions, followers are marked with ashes as they hear the words, “from dust you came and to dust you shall return.” It is a day of remembering that we are human.  We are finite creatures. We face boundaries and limits.

 

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Organizations CMC connects with:

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Carman MCC Thrift Shop
Mennonite Central Committee
Canadian Foodgrains Bank
Canadian Mennonite University
Eden Health Care Services