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Come out for our 7th annual film & poetry weekend. Saturday evening: 5 pm – dinner; 7 pm - film screening and discussion. The theme, “Comedy and Community” continues on Sunday morning. RSVP for dinner ($15) with the church office by January 31.
Download the poster here.
Rockway Mennonite Church is part of a larger Mennonite family across Canada and around the world. Below are links to greetings from leaders of parts of that family:
Mennonite Church Canada
Mennonite Church Eastern Canada
Members of local churches connected to Mennonite World Conference gathered at Rockway on October 23. They bade farewell to Larry Miller (left) as General Secretary of MWC, and welcomed the new leader, César Garcia from Colombia.
Rockway Mennonite Church and its Environment Committee was pleased to host the an Election Forum on Environmental Issues on September 29, 2011.
See the video of the forum on YouTube here.
Do you care about the environment?
Do you wonder which party will do the best job to protect it?
Each party representative answered question given to them in advance by the community partners organizing the event. Topics included:
• energy
• water
• food
• transportation
• conservation
• heritage preservation and reducing construction waste going to landfills
• environmental justice
Candidates also answered questions from audience members.
Eric Davis, Kitchener-Waterloo riding candidate, represented the Liberal Party. Cameron Dearlove, Kitchener Centre candidate, represented the NDP. Green Party representative was Mark Vercouteren, Kitchener Centre. A Progressive Conservative Party representative was not available.
Organizing partners were:
• Architectural Conservancy of Ontario – North Waterloo Region Branch http://www.arconserv.ca/br anches/show.cfm?id=8
• Community Renewal Energy Waterloo (CREW) http://www.crewzone.ca/
• Grand River Environmental Network (GREN) http://www.gren.ca/
• Greening Sacred Spaces Kitchener-Waterloo http://www.greeningsacreds paces.net/
• Local Initiative for Future Energy (L.I.F.E.) http://www.lifecoop.ca/
• rare Charitable Research Reserve http://www.raresites.org/
• REEP Green Solutions http://reepgreen.ca/
• Tri-Cities Transportation Action Group (TriTAG) http://www.tritag.ca/
• TransitionKW http://www.transitionkw.ca /
• Waterloo Public Interest Research Group (WPIRG) http://wpirg.org/
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