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Sunday@CMU: September 2025
Sunday, September 7, 2025 @ 12:00 AM
Reading the Gospel of Luke with Junior High Students
This month on Sunday@CMU, we hear from CMU alumna Julia Thiessen. Julia is a teacher at Westgate Mennonite Collegiate and a member of Charleswood Mennonite Church in Winnipeg. In this series of meditations we are rebroadcasting, she reflects on teaching the Gospel of Luke to grade eight students, and seeing the biblical stories through their lens.
Listen NowFrom engineering to pastoral leadership: The impact of theological study
Saturday, September 6, 2025 @ 12:00 AM
When Everton McLennon stepped onto CMU's campus for the first time, he was not like the majority of students. He was in his 40s, with a full-time career and an engineering degree under his belt. But he had also been called to pastor his congregation, and he took that call seriously.
"I wanted to educate myself to better serve the congregation and gain a deeper understanding of theology," McLennon says. "Reading the Bible, I felt, did not provide me with full background and prepare me properly for the role of pastoral ministry, and CMU did that for me."
Continue ReadingRelational learning, lasting impact: Carrying the spirit of CMU into education
Friday, September 5, 2025 @ 12:00 AM
Heather Schellenberg was thrilled when she found out about CMU's new education degree program. As a teacher herself, she's excited about how this will allow CMU to send even more thoughtful, well-equipped grads out into the world to nurture the next generation. "I feel proud to have gone there, and I know it shaped me a lot," she says.
Continue ReadingConviction in the courtroom: How CMU prepared a future prosecutor
Thursday, September 4, 2025 @ 12:00 AM
These days, you'll find Nathan Dueck in Thompson, MB, arguing bail conditions, speaking to sentences, and prepping for his first trials. It's a serious role, but he admits law school itself wasn't quite as grueling as people imagine.
"After the first month of first year, I didn't open a single textbook," he says. "But at CMU, I did every single reading. That's the difference—the environment made me want to show up prepared."
Continue ReadingResponding to crisis with compassion: How CMU shaped a global leader
Wednesday, September 3, 2025 @ 12:00 AM
When a humanitarian disaster makes headlines, some people read about it while drinking their coffee or share it on social media during their bus ride. Bruce Guenther, however, is already at his desk, organizing responsive action in the disaster's region.
Guenther is the Disaster Response Director at Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Canada, for which he designs projects and oversees staff that coordinate aid in response to humanitarian crises around the world, like the earthquake in Afghanistan and the genocide in Gaza. He has worked in this department, in various positions, for 18 years.
Continue ReadingFaith in Practice: How CMU Inspires Community-Centred Leadership
Wednesday, September 3, 2025 @ 12:00 AM
For Kyle Penner, CMU was where he learned how to think about faith, community, and leadership in ways that continue to shape his life today. "My time at CMU helped shape who I am and how I think in the world," he says.
After graduating in 2005 with a major in youth ministry, Penner reflects on the practical lessons CMU offered. Courses on preaching, church history, and biblical texts didn't just give him knowledge, he says they taught him how to communicate with clarity across generations. Something that he says comes in quite handy in his current role as the pastor of Grace Mennonite Church in Steinbach, MB.
Continue ReadingRooted in gaith, growing through ecology: A CMU alum's path of environmental leadership
Tuesday, September 2, 2025 @ 12:00 AM
Sometimes the most pivotal moments are only possible because of the communities we've already been part of. For Joanne Moyer, that moment came at an airport.
While seeing off a friend who was volunteering in Iraq with Christian Peacemaker Teams (now Community Peacemaker Teams), she bumped into Esther Epp-Tiessen who then worked for Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). Because they already knew each other through CMU's close-knit circles, the conversation quickly turned into opportunity.
Continue ReadingResearch, art, and advocacy: Threads that began at CMU
Monday, September 1, 2025 @ 12:00 AM
This September, Jess Klassen co-created an art installation at Nuit Blanche, a night of art, music, and festivities that lights up Winnipeg's downtown. Along with fellow CMU alumna Chantel Mierau ('05), Klassen hosted a communal art project to dream up an alternative municipal budget in response to the one put forward by the City of Winnipeg. Up on the roof of a parkade at the Forks, participants could select a strip of cloth in a colour that corresponded with a budget category—housing, library services, and public transit were just a few—and weave it into a tapestry.
Continue ReadingFrom student council to corporate communications: A CMU alum’s journey of curiosity, community, and connection
Monday, September 1, 2025 @ 12:00 AM
Zachary Peters came to CMU for adventure.
In 2005, Peters joined CMU's Outtatown Discipleship School, a program that enabled students to experience travel through a mission trip while still keeping up with their studies.
Continue ReadingFrom basketball star to keeper of stories: CMU alum brings Mennonite history to life
Thursday, August 28, 2025 @ 8:06 AM
Andrew Klassen Brown makes working in archives sound as exciting as an experimental jet test pilot.
The 32-year-old CMU alum works as the Archivist and Records Manager with Mennonite Central Committee Canada, serves as the vice-president of the Manitoba Mennonite Historical Society, and spends his free time visiting secluded attractions important to Mennonite history, such as the Mennonite Memorial Landing Site on the Banks of the Red River near Ste. Agathe, MB.
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