Bridge-builder profile: Steve & Stephanie Penner
Although Canadian Mennonite University’s plans to build a bridge spanning Grant Avenue go back to the early 2000s when Steve and Stephanie Penner were students, they remember the proposed bridge being little more than a laughing matter.
“We used to joke with our friends that the bridge would be built maybe by the time our children were students at CMU,” Stephanie recalls.
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CMU prepares newcomer for career as social worker
Odette Mukole’s great-grandfather was a Mennonite. When she arrived in Canada in 2000 after leaving the Congo with her three daughters, she remembered something her father told her: “Wherever you go in the world, you should look for the Mennonites. They will help you.”
Mukole initially arrived in Montreal, but soon moved with her daughters—who were 11, 9, and 7 at the time—to Calgary where she felt they would have a better opportunity to learn English.
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Bridge-builder profile: Julian & Lynnette Regehr
Starting medical school is challenging enough when you’re in your early 20s – never mind starting when you’re 33 with a wife and children.
But that’s what Julian Regehr did. After working as a paramedic for 10 years, he quit his job in the summer of 2005 and started med school that September.
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Bridge-builder profile: Pam Peters-Pries honours her father, Ron Peters
Pam Peters-Pries attended Canadian Mennonite Bible College (CMBC), just as her father, Ron Peters, did. During her time as a student, Pam knew exactly where her father’s Class of 1965 graduation photo hung.
“I was always conscious of his photo as I walked passed it,” says Pam, who graduated from CMBC in 1989 with a Bachelor of Theology degree. “It was interesting to picture my father as a young adult, having the same experiences I was having, especially knowing how significant his experience at CMBC had been.”
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CMU alumnus awarded prestigious $50,000 fellowship
How are people in Colombia formed by finance? What are the hopes of everyday people in their use of credit cards, bank accounts, as well as alternative economic systems, in a country at war?
Those are the questions at the heart of the dissertation Rebecca Bartel is writing to fulfill the requirements of her PhD program in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Center for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto.
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