Calendar

British Columbia

Nov. 18-20: Senior Youth IMPACT Retreat at Camp Squeah.

Nov. 27: Advent/Christmas Music Fest for MC B.C. churches at Langley Mennonite Fellowship, 2:30 p.m., followed by faspa and fellowship. For more information, call Trudy Goertzen at 604-596-9202 or Amy Dueckman at 604-854-3735.

Alberta

Nov. 5-6: Rosemary Mennonite Church 75th anniversary celebrations. Banquet and hymn sing (5); worship service, lunch and fellowship time (6). For more information, or to reserve banquet tickets, call 403-378-4933 or e-mail: rosemc@eidnet.org.

Nov. 25-26: Mennonite Historical Society of Alberta fall workshop at Bergthal Mennonite Church, Didsbury. Theme: "Rise and decline of Bible schools in Alberta." Speaker: Bruce Gunter. For more information, call Henry Goerzen at 403-335-8414.

Saskatchewan

Nov. 3-5,19, 26, 29: Ten Thousand Villages Festival Sales-Hope Mennonite Church, North Battleford (3-5); Bethany Mennonite Church, Lost River (19); Rosthern Mennonite Church (26, 1 to 4 p.m.); Bethany Manor, Saskatoon (29).

Nov. 4-5: MCC annual meeting at Family Worship Centre, Yorkton.

Nov. 4-6: RJC visioning meeting with Jeff Steckley.

Nov. 4-6: Quilting retreat at Shekinah.

Nov. 7-8: "Personal financial management for families" workshop with Jim Brown of Mennonite Foundation, Osier Mennonite Church.

Nov. 12: Mennonite Historical Society of Saskatchewan's Genealogy Day at Bethany Manor, 9:30 a.m.

Dec. 3-4: Handel's Messiah, Bethany College, Hepburn.

Dec. 10,17 : Buncha' Guys concerts-Knox United Church, Saskatoon (10); Shekinah Retreat Centre (17).

Dec. 11: RJC Christmas concert.

Jan. 13-15: Refreshing Winds retreat at Shekinah. Theme: "Worshipping through music," with a focus on the new Hymnal supplement.

Manitoba

Oct. 29, Nov. 5, Nov. 6: Camps with Meaning celebration banquets. Kathy Giesbrecht will speak on "Finding the way." Whitewater Mennonite Church, Boissevain (29, 6 p.m.); Winkler Bergthaler Mennonite Church (5, 6 p.m.); Douglas Mennonite, Winnipeg (6, 5 p.m.). For tickets, call 204-895-2267.

Nov. 1: Westgate Mennonite Collegiate, Winnipeg, annual general meeting, 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 4-6: Quilting retreat at Camp Koinonia. Call 895-2267 or e-mail camps@mennochurch.mb.ca to register.

Nov. 4-6: Quilting retreat at Camp Moose Lake. To register, call 895-2267 or e-mail camps@mennochurch.mb.ca.

Nov. 9-10: John and Margaret Friesen Lecture at CMU: "Recovering a heritage: The Mennonite Experience in Poland and Russia." Presenter: Peter Klassen, professor emeritus of history, California State University.

Nov. 11-13: Quilting retreat at Camp Moose Lake. To register, call 895-2267 or e-mail camps@mennochurch.mb.ca.

Nov. 12: Loren Hiebert and Rosemary Siemens CD release concert with guests An Even Seven, 7:30 p.m., Buhler Hall, MCI, Gretna.

Nov. 18: House of Doc concert, 8 p.m., Buhler Hall, MCI, Gretna.

Nov. 18-20: Canadian Mennonite education leaders gathering at Canadian Mennonite University, Winnipeg. Theme: "Church and church school: Committed partners or a company of strangers?"

Nov. 19: CMU alumni recital featuring Xin Want, soprano, an and Leanne Regehr, piano; 7:30 p.m.

Dec. 18: North Kildonan Mennonite Church Quartet Christmas concert, at the church, 7 p.m.

Jan. 13-15: Young adult retreat at Camp Koinonia: "Get engaged!...With the church!"

Jan. 20-22: MMYO junior youth retreat at Camp Koinonia.

Feb. 3-5: MMYO senior youth retreat at Camp Koinonia.

Feb. 10-12: MMYO junior youth retreat ay Camp Moose Lake.

Feb. 24: Leadership seminar at Gretna Bergthaler Mennonite Church.

Feb. 24-25: Annual delegate session at Mennonite Collegiate Institute, hosted by Gretna Bergthaler Mennonite Church.

March 3-5: Families, friends and persons with a disability retreat at Camp Assiniboia.

March 10-12: MMYO junior youth retreat at Camp Moose Lake.

May 29-31: Plus 55 retreat at Camp Moose Lake.

June 5-7: Plus 55 retreat at Camp Koinonia.

Ontario

Oct. 24, 25, Nov. 1, 2: Mennonite Savings and Credit Union regional meetings. Erb St. Mennonite Church, Waterloo (24); Wellesley Mennonite Church (25); Elmira Mennonite Church (1); Faith Mennonite Church, Leamington (2). Registration at 7:30 p.m., meeting at 7:45 p.m.

Oct. 25-29: Ten Thousand Villages Festival Sale, a sale of traditional and contemporary international handicrafts to benefit artisans from developing countries. Aylmer Old Town Hall (upper floor), 38 John Street South, Aylmer, Ont.

Oct. 28-30: Silver Lake Mennonite Camp fall work weekend. Call 519-747-0627 for details.

Nov. 2-5: 19th annual Ten Thousand Villages Festival Sale at Vineland United Mennonite Church. 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (2,3,4); 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (5). Tea room open each day.

Nov. 5: Silver Lake Mennonite Camp annual meeting and fish fry at Kitchener-Waterloo Mennonite Church, 4:30 to 8 p.m. Call 519-747-0627 for more information.

Nov. 25-27: Ten Thousand Villages' Mennonite Christmas Festival, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto-6 to 10 p.m. (25); 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (26); noon to 5 p.m. (27).

Nov. 26: 10th annual urban Mennonite bazaar, 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Welcome Inn Community Centre, Hamilton. For more information, call 905-525-5824.

U.S.A.

Jan. 23-27: AMBS pastors week, Elkhart, Ind.

March 9-15: MWC mini-assembly, U.S. Center for World Missions, Pasadena, Calif.

June 1-3: "Holding fast to our faith: Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective 10 years later" conference, AMBS, Elkhart, Ind.

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