LMC News

 April 22, 2022

May 14, 2022 – Save the date!
Church Fun Day at the Mennonite Heritage Farm (formerly the Wiens’ farm), starting at 2pm. Come for a time of visiting, crafts, outdoor fun, camp fire singing and food. This will take the place of the Camp Valaqua Church Camp-out originally planned for this weekend.

YOU ARE INVITED!  You and your family and guests are invited to help us celebrate Lendrum’s 60th Anniversary on July 2 and July 3, 2022!
We will have an Ice Cream Social – on July 2, 2022, 6:30-8:30 pm in Fellowship Hall.  This is a time to gather and fellowship together. July 3, 2022, our Sunday Service will be celebrating the last 10 years at Lendrum. If you did not get your invitation via email, please reach out to Sue Janzen, Chair of the Celebration Committee, and she will be glad to get you one.

The weather is warming up and the LMC Walking Club has returned. Join us on Fridays @ 9:30am in Hawrelak Park.

The Spring edition of Lendrum GraceNotes is now available! Download a copy here, or pick up a hard copy from the welcome table in the foyer.

In anticipation of Pastor Kevin’s upcoming sabbatical, LMC is looking to hire a Youth Coordinator. If you know of someone who would be a great fit for this 15 hrs/week role, please share this job description and encourage them to apply by April 25! Click here to view the job description.

Dora Dueck’s new book, On Holy Ground: stories by and about women in ministry leadership in the Mennonite Brethren Church, with contributions by Carol Penner and Sherri Guenther Trautwein, will be released in May 2022.

“This book is an edited collection of 15 essays of life-writing from 15 women Mennonite Brethren Church leaders (pastors and ministers), each telling her own story of ministry calling and of service within the Mennonite Brethren Church (struggles, challenges, joys, etc.). It is only relatively recently that such roles have been open to women in the Mennonite Brethren Church.”

The book pairs well with Women in Ministry Leadership: The Journey of the Mennonite Brethren, 1954-2010, by Doug Heidebrecht. You can read Pastor Sherri’s review here.

COFFEE AND CONVERSATION

  • Tuesday, April 26 – Twilight Dancers – In Twilight Dancers, a group of Indigenous teenagers from Pimicikamak Cree Nation use square dancing to help heal from the trauma of a suicide epidemic in their small, remote community. #CBCShortDocs 2017
  • Tuesday, May 3 – “The Lord’s Prayer” in a variety of translations. Anke has a couple at hand, but please bring others you have come across, or possibly prefer to the traditional KJ version

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