MB Herald: Canadian Conference of MB Churches

11/13/2025

CCMBC Investments began as the Stewardship Division of CCMBC. For over 40 years, it has been providing mortgages to MB churches and pastors and other ministry capital projects, such as camps, across Canada.

Here's a celebration story that shows how CCMBC Investments can help churches and pastors across Canada follow God’s calling to help grow His Kingdom.

Every individual who invests makes a difference. Thank you for being part of a bigger ministry story!

11/12/2025

If you haven't already, sign up for MB Seminary's Advent devotional "As We Wait"!

https://www.mbseminary.ca/resources/devotions/

The 2025 Advent Devotional is almost here!

Beginning November 30, this free daily email devotional will guide you in reflection and preparation as we journey toward Christmas together.

Each week focuses on one of the four traditional Advent themes:

🕯️ Hope (Nov 30–Dec 6)
🕊️ Peace (Dec 7–13)
🎶 Joy (Dec 14–20)
❤️ Love (Dec 21–25)

Written by men and women from MB churches and ministries across Canada, these devotionals invite you to slow down, reflect, and rediscover the wonder of Christ’s coming.

You can register NOW through the link in our bio!

11/11/2025

On this Remembrance Day, let's look to Jesus and follow his example of peace.

"Violence brings enmity and hostility, division and strife, destruction and death. Violence, therefore, is antithetical to what was at the heart of Jesus’s ministry."

Read Jesse Nickel's article here:
https://mbherald.com/peace-and-the-way-of-jesus/

11/07/2025

Is it practical for Christians to repay violence with Christlike love? Read Brian Cooper’s personal journey and inner wrestling with the theology of nonviolence: “It was hard for me to accept that Christians are called to be people of peace who reject violence. I didn’t like it. Part of me still doesn’t.”

https://mbherald.com/whose-way-is-practical/

11/05/2025

"Conflict is not necessarily sin. Our responses in and to conflict might be sinful, but that doesn’t mean conflict is sinful. If you take out all the conflicts from the Bible, you have a very thin book."

In "Making peace with conflict," J Janzen writes about how interpersonal conflicts can actually help us participate in the life and story of Jesus.

Read the article here: https://mbherald.com/making-peace-with-conflict/

11/04/2025

After 29 years of service with Mennonite Central Committee, including 18 years as executive director for MCC British Columbia, Wayne Bremner has announced his plans to retire in September 2026.

Congratulations, Wayne! Blessings on these next few months as you finish well and enter this new chapter.

https://mbherald.com/mcc-british-columbia-executive-director-announces-plans-to-retire-in-september-2026/

10/31/2025

Stephanie Christianson seeks to follow Jesus with and in front of her children, cultivating peace in big things and small.

Read her article "Raising little peacemakers" for some practical ways to model peace to your children: https://mbherald.com/raising-little-peacemakers/

10/23/2025

Day 2 of EQUIP 2025. What a day rich in dialogue and prayer for peace — internationally, in our neighbourhoods, in our churches, in our families, and in ourselves.

To view a video stream of all the public sessions, visit mennonitebrethren.ca/equip.

10/21/2025

EQUIP 2025 has begun! Today, we kick off three days of dialogue, learning, prayer, and family reunion at NKMB Church in Winnipeg. Join us via livestream on the EQUIP website at 2:45 pm Central for an important family conversation and again tonight at 7 pm Central for Seeking the Shalom of the City."

https://www.mennonitebrethren.ca/equip/

10/20/2025

One of the most challenging of the eighteen MB Confession of Faith articles is Article 13: Love and Nonresistance. Here is Part 2 of selected sections of these DRAFT notes which describe the “Mennonite Brethren Peace Position.”

Read it here: https://mbherald.com/qr-corner-article-13-part-2/