Read our Fall 2015 e-newsletter featuring photos and quotes from residents and our Advent Abendmusik Vesper Choir postcard. You can read even more testimonials from students in response to the question, “In my life, Menno is/has …”
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Summer BBQ @ MSC for Alumni & Supporters
On Saturday, August 22nd, we’re having a summer BBQ at the Menno Simons Centre for alumni and supporters of the PCDA! Come meet old friends and make new ones who have been positively impacted by the ministry of the Menno Simons Centre! The evening will also feature stories from past and present residents and a PCDA presentation on future student ministry opportunities. Doors open at 5:30 pm, and dinner will be served at around 6:30 pm, followed by a time of sharing and presentations.
To RSVP, please email us or check out the Facebook event page.
Spiritual Formation at The Inn by Jon Epps
On Thursday, July 30th at 7:30pm in the chapel of at 4000 West 11th Avenue all are welcome to join us for a presentation by Jon Epps, Director of the Inn Ministries, Presbyterian Church, Bellingham, Washington about their 40-year University student ministry. Thomas and Cara Bergen will also make a short presentation on the role of the Menno Simons Centre and spiritual formation of University students. An informal discussion will follow. All are welcome to attend this event and enjoy an evening of discussion and presentations on University student spiritual formation.
Where are the young board members?
Rachel Bergen, former Menno Simons Centre alumnus and Young Voices Co-Editor, interviewed PGIMF attender Victoria Pelletier for the June 17, 2015 issue of the Canadian Mennonite entitled, Where are the young board members? (5 tips from young Mennonites who serve on boards).
Spring 2015 e-newsletter
Read our Spring 2015 e-newsletter featuring stories about: new promo video, PCDA vision decision, Menno Simons Centre application deadline approaching, January retreat at Hemlock, Abendmusik Vesper Choir’s Lenten services, spreading the potluck tradition, and more!
“Over and over again” – devotional for Lent by a former MSC Residence Coordinator
Former Menno Simons Centre Residence Coordinator Kathryn Schmidt (now Adjunct Professor of Music at Goshen College in Indiana) wrote a devotional for Lent at “Over and over again” based on Psalm 51 and Psalm 119.
Abendmusik Lent 2015 – Mar. 7 & 8
This Lent Vespers service features 60 minutes of uninterrupted choral singing, congregational hymns, meditative responsive readings and prayers. The 26-voice chamber choir will be conducted by our Music Director, Michael Murray, organist and Director of Music at St Philip’s Anglican Church in Vancouver and founding member of Vancouver’s musica intima. During an organ offertory, an offering will be taken in support of the Choir and The Menno Simons Centre, a residence for the 23 Christian university students attending Vancouver’s various universities and colleges.
- Saturday, March 7, 2015, 8:00 pm, Emmanuel Free Reformed Church, 3386 Mount Lehman Road, Abbotsford, BC
- Sunday, March 8, 2015, 8:00 pm, St. Philip’s Anglican Church, 3737 West 27th Ave, Vancouver, BC*
Please note our new venue in Vancouver!
For maps and directions, see pcda.bc.ca/avc-choir/vespers-schedule/
Fall 2014 e-newsletter
Read reflections from new and returning residents about finding community when you’re far from home — what has it meant to live at the Menno Simons Centre — in the 2014 Fall e-newsletter.
Abendmusik Advent 2014 – Nov. 29 & 30
This Advent Vespers service features 60 minutes of uninterrupted choral singing, congregational hymns, meditative responsive readings and prayers. The 26-voice chamber choir will be conducted by our Music Director, Michael Murray, organist and Director of Music at St Philip’s Anglican Church in Vancouver and founding member of Vancouver’s musica intima. During an organ offertory, an offering will be taken in support of the Choir and The Menno Simons Centre, a residence for the 23 Christian university students attending Vancouver’s various universities and colleges.
- Saturday, November 29, 2014, 8:00 pm, Emmanuel Free Reformed Church, 3386 Mount Lehman Road, Abbotsford, BC
- Sunday, November 30, 2014, 8:00 pm, Knox United Church, 5600 Balaclava at West 41st, Vancouver, BC
For maps and directions, see pcda.bc.ca/avc-choir/vespers-schedule/
Potluck Barbeque, Sun. Sept. 7
Welcome to the new residents of the MSC for Fall 2014! On Sunday, September 7th, the church which meets in our chapel (Point Grey Inter-Mennonite Fellowship, a.k.a. PGIMF) invites you to join them for a BBQ of farmer sausage and veggie burgers. The worship service starts at 10:30am and lunch will be served afterwards. Meet the founders of the society that bought the building 28 years ago and get to know the students who have just moved in!