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Faith 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.

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Rooted in Faith, 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. Because they already knew each other through CMU's close-knit circles, the conversation quickly turned into opportunity.

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From 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.

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From 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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CMU taught alum how to think "inside out and upside down"

Tuesday, August 19, 2025 @ 4:05 PM

The current Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Winnipeg came to CMU from Providence University College, by way of the University of Manitoba, where he initially planned to become a dentist.

After a conversation with a friend attending CMU, who mentioned a course on the history of rock music, he quickly changed direction. That pivot eventually led him to CMU's Music Department in the early 2000s, where he graduated in 2006.

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