Save the Date!

November 16 & 17
Pastors and Congregational leaders are encouraged to represent their congregation in MCA's re-visioning process, VISION 2020. Opening to God's Leading will be theme. More details to come. 

Vision 2020

Mennonite Church Alberta is initiating a conversation to listen for how God is calling the church today and to allow this listening to deepen the life and work of the church. We also want to renew ourselves in our commitment to one another as Mennonite Church Alberta. We pray that our conversation will open our community of faith to listening deeply for God’s leading and that in so doing, we will grow in becoming who God is creating us to be.


MCA has contracted with Betty Pries of Credence & Co. to begin MCA Vision 2020. 
Reference Group: Tim Wiebe-Neufeld, Kate Janzen, Debbie Baergen, Paul Neufeldt, June Miller, and Tracey Brown-Ewert. 

Congregational leader and pastors from all MCA churches are encouraged to participate. General Council recognizes, however, that steps may need to be taken to work around any language or cultural barriers. It is vital that each church is represented in this process.


Phase One: Listening Exercise
   An invitation to engage in the process by survey.
   What are our strengths, realities, and values?
Phase Two: Opening to God's Leading
   A weekend event November 16 & 17
   What does it mean to be a community of faith, practically?
Phase Three: Discerning God's Call
   A weekend event March 15 & 16, 2019 (ADS)
   Where have we been and where are we going?
Phase Four: Incarnating God's Call
   A final weekend event in Fall of 2019
   What are the outcomes, key learnings, opportunities, and action plans that will guide us as a church into 2020 and beyond?


Testimony from Ryan Siemens, Executive Minister of MC Sask

Just over a year ago, we invited Betty Pries to lead us through Refresh, Refocus, Renew; a year-long process to pray and reflect upon who we think we are, who we actually are and who we desire to be. At the beginning of this year, Betty invited us to do a survey. Much of what was said in that survey could be summarized by the following comment: “MC Sask is more about community, relationships, and belonging than about structure. As congregations, we very much want to follow Jesus’ command to love each other and our neighbors."