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Sunday@CMU: March 2020
Sunday, March 1, 2020 @ 12:00 AM
Theme: Living in Hope
Speaker: Karl Koop
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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 MoreSunday@CMU: January 2020
Saturday, January 4, 2020 @ 12:00 AM
Theme: Journeying Through the Psalms
Speaker: Janet Peters
Read MorePortable CMU: how a university of the church takes care of its roots
Monday, December 2, 2019 @ 12:00 AM
Our faith teaches that we belong to those who have made us: to Christ, our families, and communities. Accordingly, CMU belongs to the many-membered church body that first raised it up and nurtures it to this day. Enter Portable CMU. Former president/professor emeritus Dr. Gerald Gerbrandt, the program's first director, says "one of the great things about the offering is that from the beginning, it was congregation-instigated."
Read MoreSunday@CMU: December 2019
Sunday, December 1, 2019 @ 12:00 AM
Theme: The Advent Season
Speaker: Paul Doerksen
Read MoreSunday@CMU: November 2019
Sunday, November 3, 2019 @ 12:00 AM
Theme: Elijah the Prophet
Speaker: Moses Falco
Read MoreThis Thirsty Land: CMU Festival Chorus and Mennonite Community Orchestra in performance
Monday, October 28, 2019 @ 9:33 AM
On Saturday November 2, the newly formed CMU Festival Chorus and resident Mennonite Community Orchestra will join forces, along with student and faculty soloists, to present This Thirsty Land, a bill of masterworks reanimated for the present moment.
Directed by CMU's Janet Brenneman (PhD), and grafted into the roots of the former Mennonite Festival Chorus, the CMU Festival Chorus brings together three distinct ensembles under the university umbrella, comprising current students, alumni, and community members. Still in its inaugural season, the choir has already worked with several distinguished WSO directors, performing definitive repertoire by Mozart, Britten, Handel, Beethoven, Verdi, Mahler, Schoenberg, Silvestrov, and Pärt.
Read More2019 CMU Distinguished Alumni Story | Eileen Klassen Hamm (video)
Monday, October 7, 2019 @ 1:00 PM
Eileen Klassen Hamm (CMBC '86) of Saskatoon, SK is the Executive Director of MCC Saskatchewan. She began working for MCC in 1992, taking on various program coordinator roles and becoming Program Director in 2007, before being appointed as Executive Director in 2016. "I continue to be passionate about the ministry of MCC because this organization weaves together a diverse constituency of generous donors and volunteers and church communities with the beauty and brokenness of the world," says Klassen Hamm. "Through MCC, we are invited to step into local and global realities and offer our resources and our love, and in turn, we are formed and transformed by the courage and teachings from many places around the globe." Klassen Hamm and her husband, Les, have two adult children. They attend Wildwood Mennonite Church in Saskatoon, where she participates in leading worship and preaching. "Receiving this award is humbling," she says. "My learning journey as a young adult was shaped deeply by the CMBC community, and I have continued to be shaped by relationships and institutional activities that began then."
Read More2019 CMU Distinguished Alumni Story | Jeffrey Metcalfe (video)
Monday, October 7, 2019 @ 1:00 PM
Jeffrey Metcalfe (CMU '09) of Quebec City, QC was recently installed as the Canon Theologian for the Anglican Diocese of Quebec. He facilitates theological reflection in decision making processes, helps congregations engage in vocational discernment, and creates programs to further clergy education. Metcalfe was ordained in 2013 and began his PhD in Theological Studies at the University of Toronto's Trinity College in 2015. His research focuses on developing an ethnographic theological methodology to explore how the Anglican church in Quebec City can resist and push back against the racism in their context. "I am passionate about welcoming many kinds of migrants, including refugees, because I believe that God passionately loves the different peoples and places that God has created," he says. "As disciples of Jesus, the Spirit calls and empowers us to join together with those who come to dwell with us from other lands – not as a duty, but as a joy." Metcalfe says he is grateful for this award and the opportunity it gives him to thank CMU for the way it has shaped and empowered him to do the work he is doing today. He and his wife Julie have two children.
Read More2019 CMU Distinguished Alumni Story | Randy Klassen (video)
Monday, October 7, 2019 @ 1:00 PM
Randy Klassen (MBBC '84) of Saskatoon, SK taught at Bethany College from 2002–2015, before becoming the National Restorative Justice Coordinator for MCC Canada for over three years, until the office was closed this spring. He has dedicated over 10 years to building relationships with Indigenous communities. First through Bethany College and then Lakeview Church, he has taken young adults to Beardy's and Okemasis Cree Nation, where they connect with youth, get involved in the community, and learn from Indigenous elders. "It's been a remarkable and beautiful journey," he says. He also spent this summer with MCC Saskatchewan as the Event Coordinator for the Spruce River Folk Festival, a one-day event that raises awareness for landless Indigenous bands. Klassen says receiving this award from CMU was an unexpected honour, especially during a time when his career was changing in ways that he didn't anticipate or ask for. "It is a huge encouragement to think that the different chapters of my life thus far have made a positive contribution somewhere," he says. "I'm grateful to be part of this huge legacy." Klassen and his wife Darlene have four children and five grandchildren. They attend Lakeview Church in Saskatoon.
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