FMC Adult Education – Light and Darkness series videos now available. Missed a session? Want to rewatch another? Our winter and spring sessions are now available with the following link.

You can also click the link directly under our ‘Special Events’ tab.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1o1JcvK2RBhoNp8MCtAxgSKd75dc8dtQ9?usp=sharing

Current & Upcoming

Past Events

** Note ** sessions with Sue Sorensen and Sarah Ens have been switched

Darkness and Light

Beginning Oct 22 – Tom Yoder Neufeld on the Book of Romans
Sundays 11:30am – 12:30pm

Oct 22 – Getting a handle on Romans—Who? What? Where? Why? to Whom? And why does it matter? (Rom 1:1-15; 15:14—end of chap. 16)
Oct 29 – God’s strange justice—both wrath and grace? (Rom 1:16-3:31)
Nov 5 – God makes peace, and won’t take no for an answer (Rom 5, 8, 9-11)
Nov 12 – Is Paul channeling the Sermon on the Mount? (Rom 6, 12)
Nov 19 – Christians and the State: does the state ever trump Christ? (Rom 13)
Nov 26 – Welcome each other as Christ has welcomed you! (Rom 14, 15)

Tom Yoder Neufeld is Professor Emeritus of New Testament (Conrad Grebel University College), former pastor (Thompson United Mennonite, Boston Mennonite Fellowship), prison chaplain (Stony Mountain), hospital chaplain (Health Sciences Centre, Wpg), and presently chair of the Mennonite World Conference Faith and Life Commission.

Which Violence, Whose Safety?
Talking political promises and collective care in our city and province.

Tuesday September 26 at 7pm

Queer Theology and the Church: After the Affirmation

Sunday evenings beginning October 23

Live stream available at https://firstmennonitechurch.ca/services/

Archived event videos

Melanie Kampen – Interrogating Christian theology to be trauma-informed and justice-making in its approach

Tim Wenger and Matthew Froese – Worshipping the (W)holy Other: Queer theology in our hymns and confessions

David Driedger – Undressed or Undone: How sex and holiness change everything

Jude Claude – Queer theology beyond inclusion: An exploration of the work of Marcella Althaus-Reid

Break Every Yoke: Motion 46, The Church and The Question of Income for All

Event and login information – https://firstmennonitechurch.ca/break-every-yoke/

Keeping the Peace: Past and Present Relationships Between Peace and Policing in Winnipeg

**Keeping the Peace: Exploring Past and Present Relationships between Peace and Policing in Winnipeg.**
Public lecture by Dr Bronwyn Dobchuk-Land on March 11, 2020 hosted by First Mennonite Church of Winnipeg.
Transcript of the event available here. Audio below.
*(Apologies for the poor audio editing, the entire lecture is included though it feels a little cut off at the end)*

First Mennonite Church of Winnipeg · Keeping The Peace