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Creation care as career: spotlight on alumni farmers (part 1 of 4)
Thursday, October 8, 2020 @ 11:19 AM
Why more and more CMU alumni are including small-scale agriculture in their life-paths, during and after school.
This year the CMU Farm celebrates its 10th anniversary season. And while the challenges of COVID-19 have reshaped things for the farm, from celebration plans to daily operations of their CSA project, Autumn's work is largely unaltered: harvest season proceeds apace, and the steward Metanoia Farmers' collective are already forming their plans for next season.
Read MoreSunday@CMU: July 2020
Friday, July 10, 2020 @ 12:00 AM
Theme: Journeying Through the Psalms
This month on Sunday@CMU, we are rebroadcasting a sermon series by Janet Peters. She explores the Psalms, a biblical book that encompasses the whole range of human emotions and experiences, and how they can help us in our lives and faith journeys. Janet is an alumna of CMU's Graduate School of Theology and Ministry and the Associate Program Director of Camps with Meaning, Mennonite Church Manitoba's camping ministry.
Read MoreOuttatown Alumni Profile: Ally Siebert (Guatemala 2011-12)
Wednesday, June 24, 2020 @ 10:35 AM
Ally Siebert says Outtatown helped her lay strong foundations in key human skills, placing her ahead of the curve now that she's training for medicine.
What does it take to be a professional healer? Medical student Ally Siebert, a graduate of CMU's Outtatown program, is entering clerkship at University of Waterloo. The Ottawa native says that while much depends on your specialization, human skills can make or break your efficacy as a care provider.
Read MoreSunday@CMU: June 2020
Sunday, June 7, 2020 @ 12:00 AM
Theme: Elijah the Prophet
This month on Sunday@CMU, we are rebroadcasting a sermon series by Moses Falco on the life and times of Elijah the prophet. Moses is a CMU alumnus and the pastor at Sterling Mennonite Fellowship in Winnipeg.
Read MoreBusiness co-op program gives alumna head start in career
Wednesday, June 3, 2020 @ 11:50 AM
Kayla Yanke (CMU '18) was one of the first students to graduate with CMU's Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Co-op degree, majoring in Accounting. After walking across the convocation stage in cap and gown, she was ready to join the workforce.
But just five months later, she suddenly faced being uprooted from the network she had established when she and her husband had to move across the country from Winnipeg, MB to Victoria, BC for his job in the military.
Read MoreCMU School of Music alumna awarded prestigious Yamaha Fellowship
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 @ 9:18 AM
CMU alumna Anneli Loepp Thiessen has been awarded the University of Rochester's coveted Yamaha Fellowship: a full-ride scholarship to study for one intensive week at the university's Eastman Leadership Academy this summer.
Limited to just 25 people, the program will include mentorship from faculty, training in essential skills like grant-writing, and support in developing a personal project of each Fellow's choice. Loepp Thiessen says her passion project will, "as always," have a feminist objective:
Read MoreSuper Sick: Making Peace with Chronic Illness – English alumna Allison Alexander launches first book
Monday, May 11, 2020 @ 1:00 PM
Having battled chronic illness all her life, Alexander wants to see herself in her heroes. Her new book Super Sick chronicles her search for sick characters in pop culture, and the personal impact of that quest.
"Superheroes aren't sick. They don't lie in bed all day because they're in too much pain to get up. They don't face the challenges of the chronically ill, which include socially inappropriate topics like mental illness, sex, and diarrhea. The latter, of course, would be exponentially worse in a spandex suit."
Read MoreIn God’s Country: Alumna finds joy and purpose teaching in Canada’s far north
Monday, March 2, 2020 @ 10:31 AM
Gjoa Haven is situated on William Island, Nunavut, a little over 2,000 kilometres north of Winnipeg. As the crow flies, it's about as far from here to Vancouver. But the Mercator effect is truer to life in Canada than ninth-grade social studies would have us believe: in significance if not in substance, distances expand toward the Pole. While the realities of life up north can be harsh, for Katrina Brooks, a 2015 alumna of CMU's Bachelor of Arts in English now teaching at Gjoa Haven's Qiqirtaq Ilihakvik High School, this expansion of space and consciousness is a taste of what it feels like to be in God's country.
Read MoreSunday@CMU: February 2020
Sunday, February 2, 2020 @ 12:00 AM
Theme: CMU's 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipients
This month on Sunday@CMU, we are featuring speeches given by this year's recipients of the CMU Distinguished Alumni Awards this past September. The awards celebrate alumni who embody CMU's values and mission of service, leadership, and reconciliation in church and society.
Read MoreAlumni Profile: Cecilly Hildebrand, Executive Director of Candace House
Thursday, December 19, 2019 @ 1:43 PM
Cecilly Hildebrand graduated from CMU in 2012 with a BA in Psychology. Today, at just 31, she is completing an MA in Social Work and serves full-time as Executive Director of Candace House, a daytime refuge in Winnipeg for families navigating the court system after the criminal death of a loved one.
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