Joel Peters: Mastering the pipe organ in Montreal
A CMU alumnus was one of the big winners at a prestigious music competition in Montreal at the end of November.
Joel Peters (’11) earned $7,500 in prize money and a weeklong residency at Quebec’s Orford music academy at the OSM Competition in Montreal. Held by the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the competition is intended exclusively for young performers.
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MSCSA to launch new scholarship for peers
Since the early weeks of first semester, this year’s MSC Student Association (MSCSA) has had a unique priority: to develop a new scholarship for one of their peers. No one recalls who’s idea it was, but the eight members are committed to furthering MSCSA’s values of peace, justice, equality, social action, and community.
Chris Sundby, the MSCSA facilitator, explains that his team is working to raise $500 for a student who embodies these values. The scholarship will be added to the list of others available to returning Menno Simons students and awarded based on merit.
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Brock Peters: Serving coffee and building community
Walk into the Strong Badger Coffeehouse and you’ll immediately feel at home. The cosy space, located on the corner of Sargent Avenue and Victor Street in Winnipeg’s West End, feels like someone’s living room.
“My hope for the place is (that) people will walk in and feel welcome, and feel it’s a place (where) they might belong,” says Brock Peters (CMU ’12).
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Five meditations on prayer by Kyle Penner
This month’s episodes of the Sunday@CMU radio program feature a series of meditations about prayer by Kyle Penner (CMU ’05).
“Sometimes it feels like we are tugged into too many directions and we’re not giving our best to the places that deserve our best,” says Kyle, who serves as the associate pastor at Grace Mennonite Church in Steinbach, MB. “This is one of those places where I have found prayer to be a practice that grounds me and helps me to be present to what matters most.”
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In solidarity with Standing Rock
Professor Jobb Arnold and I, along with our respective partners, recently travelled to Standing Rock Reservation, one hour south of Bismark, North Dakota, to offer our support for the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline and to bear witness. We camped at one of three camps for the supporters. They called the supporters "water protectors" because one of their main concerns is the potential for harm to the Missouri river, as the pipeline is to pass under it.
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