MHM E-Events Listings
Events Newsletter for the Mennonite Heritage Museum
Welcome to the E-Newsletter: May 20th, 2022 Edition
In this issue:
- Museum CLOSED on Victoria Day, Monday, May 23, 2022
- Regular Museum Hours Open Monday to Friday 10am to 3pm
- Yarn & Garn Group meets Thursdays at 1:30pm in the Cafe
- Join us for the On Holy Ground Book Launch June 17, 2022
- Cafe DINE IN OPEN for Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays
- Scheduled Tours available in our Find Out Fridays Main Exhibit Tour Series extended; register now for a morning or an afternoon tour
- Free Film Series on Wednesdays at 1pm
- Gallery Exhibit Along the Road to Freedom running until June 3, 2022
- Photos from our Last Book Launch: Mennonite In Motion by Dr. John H. Redekop
- SAVE THE DATE! Book Launch for Return Stroke July 7, 2022
- Volunteers Wanted
Join us for Yarn & Garn on Thursday Afternoons
This is an informal group that meets in the cafe for coffee, crafts and comradeship.
Come for a visit.
See you soon!
You're Invited to our next Book Launch!
Register today for this June 17th Book Launch!
YOU ARE INVITED! Bring your friends and family!
- REGISTER and your name will be entered for the draw for a chance to win a free copy of the book!
- Call 604-758-5667 to register.
- Let us know if you would like to reserve copies. (A 10% discount on the book on the day of the Book Launch).
- After hours, please leave a message with your name and number so that we can call you back to confirm your spot(s).
- Registration is not required, just recommended.
On Holy Ground
Join Us for an Evening with Editor, Dora Dueck
Along With Contributors: Bev Peters, Lorraine Dick,
and Karen Heidebrecht Thiessen
ABOUT THE BOOK “On Holy Ground grew out of a wish to set the lived experience of women alongside—or within—the institutional history of women in leadership ministry among Mennonite Brethren, as recently written by Doug Heidebrecht. His excellent narrative of denominational meetings, motions and debates on the subject is invaluable, but it was real women who were under the spotlight during all that discussion and it’s the voice of real women who need to be on record as well with their recollections of this history. In this book we hear some of those voices, telling their compelling stories.”
“Openings to women in ministry: are they fault lines or are they rivers in the desert, God’s new thing amongst us?”
CHERYL PAULS, President, CANADIAN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY
“This ‘small-but-mighty” volume fills a needed gap because it explores the personal experiences of women who have done the hard work of leadership in the context of the local church and MB family during a time when they were a minority voice.”
BRAD SUMNER, Pastor, JERICHO RIDGE COMMUNITY CHURCH
Click here to view.
Cafe OPEN for Dine-In TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, AND THURSDAYS!
Join us for scheduled exhibit tours! More dates have been added due to popular demand!
Register today to reserve your spot for FIND OUT FRIDAYS
Call 604-758-5667 to register.
Please feel free to leave a message after hours. Leave a message with your name and number so that we can call you back to confirm your spot.
Morning tour at 10:30am and afternoon tour at 1:30pm.
Looking forward to seeing you!
Along the Road to Freedom Exhibit runs until June 3rd
Photos from our Last Book Launch
John's book is available
for purchase in our Gift Shop
Mennonite in Motion
Dr. John H. Redekop
Stop by the Gift Shop
Book Launch
Richard Thiessen
Thank you Staff and Volunteers
Save the Date! Return Stroke: Essays & Memoir Book Launch July 7th, 2022!
This book is slated to be released in June of 2022.
These graceful, probing personal essays by award-winning fiction writer Dora Dueck engage with a diverse range of ideas (becoming a writer, motherhood, mortality, the ethics of biography, a child's coming-out) because in non-fiction, she writes, “the quest for meaning bows to the experience as it was.” Yet within Return Stroke, one theme in particular does resonate—change. “How wonderful,” the author writes, that our “bits of existence, no matter how ordinary, are available for further consideration—seeing patterns, facing into inevitable death, enjoying the playful circularity of then and now.”
The book’s title, Return Stroke—the title of one essay, where it literally refers to lightning—suggests such a dynamic: “When I send inquiry into my past, it sends something back to me.” The topic of memory, in all its malleability, impermanence, and surprising power, is especially central to the collection’s concluding piece, an absorbing memoir of the author’s 1980s life in the Paraguayan Chaco. Whether she is discovering the more meaningful part that imagination holds within her religious faith or relating with astonishing clarity and honesty the experience of giving birth away from her home country, Dora Dueck’s beautifully written essays and memoir make her an insightful and generous companion.
T-SHirts are available from our Gift Shop!
Featured books in our gift shop
We are re-opening the museum in increments
Increment 1: Museum Gift Shop and Exhibits will be open weekdays from 10am to 3pm.
Masks are encouraged; we do not require vaccine passports for entry to the museum unless otherwise specified. Please check in at the front desk upon arrival.
The Museum is closed on all stat holidays, holiday weekends and for 4 weeks in Winter.
Increment 2: Café Dine Open Tuesday to Thursday
Increment 3: MHSBC Research Centre Open by Appointment Call Ahead 604-853-6177
Increment 4: Housebarn Exhibit (Upcoming Opening Date TBD)
Museum Statement
In an effort to create the safest possible environment for all of our staff, volunteers, and guests, the Mennonite Heritage Museum and the Mennonite Historical Society of BC have ensured that all onsite staff and volunteers have been vaccinated for COVID-19.
We are committed to following the requirements of our British Columbia Provincial Government and our requirements of guests will adhere to current mandates which are outlined by Public Health Orders.
Please review our current protocols here: https://mennonitemuseum.org/visit/
Stay at home and plan to visit us at a later date if you are exhibiting any cold and/or flu-like symptoms or have recently been exposed to a communicable disease.
We appreciate everyone’s consideration, sensitivity, and compassion as we make our return to regular operations.
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/covid-19/info/restrictions
News from MHSBC:
The MHSBC Research Centre Open By Appointment
For virtual tours, check out our youtube videos and channels:
- MHSBC Introductory Video with Jennifer Martens: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB87-Sa-T8DmyfVOcIjeTNQ/
- MHM Introductory Video with Jenny Bergen: https://youtu.be/C2TnhT5dLzs
- Presentation by Richard Thiessen: https://youtu.be/nXuVgWhu15g
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Mennonite Heritage Museum
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Website: http://mennonitemuseum.org/
Location: 1818 Clearbrook Road, Abbotsford, BC, Canada
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