Best Mennonite Church Edmonton Near Me

4worldlovers: The Discipleship Commission invites you to participate in our Mennonite Beach Book Festival this summer! Get familiar with your church library, track your summer reading, and share your favourite summer reads with others. Throughout the summer, the library will have a table of recommendations available in the foyer, but as always, we encourage you to check out the library downstairs for anything that catches your eye.

Please check your weekly bulletin for prayer requests and other church family news.

Check out recent episodes of MCC’s “Relief, Development, and Podcast!” This past episode focuses on Indigenous food sovereignty in Canada. You can listen to it here.

Grow Hope is already at 237 acres out of 369 sponsored by amazing people like you! Visit Grow Hope Alberta | Mennonite Central Committee Canada (mcccanada.ca) to learn how you can help give security and hope to people suffering from hunger.

GO!100 with us this summer and make a difference! Raise support among your peers for the work of MCC locally and around the world by setting a goal for your favourite summer activity! Register here https://mcccanada.ca/get-involved/events/go-100-alberta.

MCC Alberta staff have joined GO!100 to pack 100 hygiene kits. Find their participant page and lend your support here: MCC Alberta’s GO!100 2023 – Team MCC Alberta – Canadahelps

Enter the School Kit Challenge. Help 10,000 kids attend school by donating 10,000 school kits during the month of August. Whether you donate one or 100 school kits, every donation helps! Learn more here.

Xplore: Keep Thinking. Registration is now open for CMU’s Xplore classes, available for anyone to attend. Check out courses on Anabaptist Identity, Faith and Climate Change, Disability and Theology, and more! All courses are once a week for six weeks and available online. Learn more and register here.

As we live into our commitment to live in Good and Right relationships with our Indigenous neighbours, we have numerous opportunities in July and August to join in Indigenous—led activities. I would invite us to consider joining some of these together as a Mennonite community of fellow travelers in this land. Below is an opportunity for us to add to our local stories/experiences of connection.

Saturday August 19: St. Albert Poundmakers Pow-wow. Arrive at 12:30 in time for the 1:00 Grand Entry.

4worldlovers:
In 1994, Kien and Tina Pham had a vision for a new church in downtown Edmonton. They began by gathering a few people in their house for Bible studies. Soon after, Pastor Nhien Pham as well as a few other individuals from Calgary came and led the Bible studies for a year.

In 1995, the group invited Pastor Chau Dang to become their first pastor. By January 1996, the church was fully incorporated and registered as charitable organization with Revenue Canada.

In 2001 Pastor Chau Dang relocated to Calgary and Pastor Thomas Pham was invited to become a senior pastor at EVMC.

Since 1995, numerous individuals have come and gone, serving as children's pastors. EVMC recognizes and deeply appreciates Deborah Penner, Brent Hamrell, Paul Cook, and Carol Saunders for their contributions to the lives of those who were and still are under their stewardship.

In June 2003, Pastor Anthony Henshall became the first youth pastor and served for 7 years. During this time, the English Ministry began to take shape.

He was succeeded by Pastor Matt Thompson in November 2010. However, due to responsibilities of his new young family, he stepped down in December 2011.