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The Blanket Exercises: Resources
At PIT 2015, Sue Eagle and Miriam Sainnawap led participants in the KAIROS Blanket Exercise, a workshop that explores the nation-to-nation relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada. Blankets arranged on the floor represent land and participants are invited to step into the roles of First Nations, Inuit, and later Métis peoples. The workshop helps people to understand how the colonization of this land impacts those who were here long before settlers arrived.
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Concert raises $30,000 for building projects in Guatemala
Amazing music, great weather, fun people and overwhelming generosity characterized the second-ever River Fest fundraiser.
Organized by former Outtatown staffers Ruth and Foort Bruinooge along with their friends Ingrid and Martin Enns, Luke and Ang Enns, and Jake and Brittany Enns, along with the help of many family and friends, the September 3 concert raised more than $30,000 for home building projects in Guatemala.
Read MoreLooking forward to PIT 2015
As summer evenings begin to cool and a new school year begins, the CMU community is anticipating PIT 2015!!
For 37 years, CMU has planned Peace It Together conferences specifically for the high school youth of our churches. Once again this year, from October 23-25, a diverse group of young people from Winnipeg and across Canada will gather to sing, worship, and explore acts of peace and justice... here on the CMU campus and in the broader community!
Many who have attended PIT in former years speak of driving countless hours to Winnipeg, staying up way too late with friends in squishy dorm rooms, having fun with traditions of Walk ‘a Mile, a Square Dance and Coffee house... but also of the transformative way that this conference deepened their faith and stretched their imaginations as they encountered Jesus’ invitation to be peacemakers.
So, what’s new about PIT 2015?
This year’s PIT theme is so timely and necessary for all of us engaged in church ministry and with young people. PIT 2015 will invite our youth to explore First Nation and Settler relationships as we listen, live and share together. Our focus will be on hearing God in the stories of indigenous peoples and as we reflect on our own stories. We’re excited to welcome young people from across Canada to sing, worship, have fun with new friends and deepen our faith.
Come and gather for PIT 2015 in “A Meeting Place” at CMU!
A job description that makes you laugh and a budget that makes you cry
The first Going Barefoot conference was held in 2007, which doesn’t sound that long ago to me. Or at least, it didn’t until I realized that year was the first time anyone heard the word “iPhone.”
The next conference was in 2009, and I found this gem among the workshop descriptions: “Everyone knows about Facebook and My Space, but what about Ning, Yammer, Bebo and Orkut?”
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From globetrotting to CMU to working for the Province of Manitoba
Travelling for a year is a rite of passage for many high school graduates. Julia Tetrault turned that year into nearly a decade of globetrotting.
Tetrault (nee Wiebe, CMU ’08) visited more than 30 countries, including stints living and working in England and Australia, before arriving at CMU.
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