Missionary Church

  • Women’s Missionary Society/ Ministries 1

    Officially, the denominational Women’s Missionary Societies (WMS) of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ Church began Conference by Conference in 1937. That was the year the United Missionary Society, the mission board of the MBiC, urged the Conferences to allow women… Continue reading

    Women’s Missionary Society/ Ministries 1
  • Adventures with Film: Movies and the EMCC Part 3

    Except for outside groups, Christians of every shape, size and colour make videos and watch movies, whether documentaries or narrative fiction, whether in a cinema, on TV or on a cellphone. As Paul Fromer, professor of writing at Wheaton College… Continue reading

    Adventures with Film: Movies and the EMCC Part 3
  • Church Plates

    I was eating my lunch off a commemorative plate when a thought struck me. Commemorative church plates were not exactly meant to be used to hold my beans and greens, but to commemorate and be displayed. The Canadian Presbyterian Church… Continue reading

    Church Plates
  • Huffman and Biblical Archaeology

    Jasper Abraham Huffman’s book, Voices from Rocks and Dust Heaps in Bible Lands,1 was probably the first book of biblical archaeology I ever read. I was likely less than 14 when I read it, but by then I had certainly… Continue reading

    Huffman and Biblical Archaeology