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Bridge-builder profile: Pam Peters-Pries honours her father, Ron Peters
Pam Peters-Pries attended Canadian Mennonite Bible College (CMBC), just as her father, Ron Peters, did. During her time as a student, Pam knew exactly where her father’s Class of 1965 graduation photo hung.
“I was always conscious of his photo as I walked passed it,” says Pam, who graduated from CMBC in 1989 with a Bachelor of Theology degree. “It was interesting to picture my father as a young adult, having the same experiences I was having, especially knowing how significant his experience at CMBC had been.”
CMU alumnus awarded prestigious $50,000 fellowship
How are people in Colombia formed by finance? What are the hopes of everyday people in their use of credit cards, bank accounts, as well as alternative economic systems, in a country at war?
Those are the questions at the heart of the dissertation Rebecca Bartel is writing to fulfill the requirements of her PhD program in the Department for the Study of Religion and the Center for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto.
CMU recognizes distinguished alumni with 2013 Blazer Awards
A public policy expert, a man working at building relationships between First Nations people and Mennonites, two international development workers living in West Africa, and a pastor who writes a blog of worship resources are the recipients of the 2013 Blazer Distinguished Alumni Awards.
Bridge-builder profile: Brian Grunau and Miriam Schellenberg
Brian Grunau and Miriam Schellenberg graduated from CMU in 2003. They currently live in Vancouver, where Brian works as an emergency physician at St. Paul’s Hospital and Miriam works as a school psychologist for the Vancouver School District.
CMU honours founders of first MCC thrift shop
When Selma Loewen, Sara Stoesz, Susan Giesbrecht, and Linie Friesen started a thrift shop in Altona, Man. to raise funds for Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), they expected it to last just a few months.
Little did they know the shop would still be around 41 years later, and that it was the beginning of a network that has grown to more than 100 shops across North America that has generated contributions totaling $167 million for the work of MCC.
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