In the 1920s, nearly 8,000 Mennonites left Canada in search of a new homeland where they would be able to control their education system.
Working at Mennonite Heritage Village (MHV), my thinking often comes in ‘exhibit form’.
Life is a trek. It is not easy, but in the end, you can look back and recognize you made some progress.
Sometimes in the meal prayers of Mennonites you will hear this phrase, “and thank you Lord for the hands that have prepared it.”
The continuing legacy of traditional Mennonites is one of migration and diaspora.
It was 6:30pm on a warm July day when we took our bicycles off the rack. We knew it was a late start, but we felt we had plenty of time to complete the 50-kilometre Manitoba Peace Trail.
This year Mennonite Heritage Village (MHV) and Eden Foundation are co-hosting the first annual Peace Trek. It is a one-day cyclathon and marathon that uses an adaptation of the new Peace Trail that is being developed in South-East Manitoba.
Did you know that your identity, your culture is always changing? Sometimes for the worse, but often for the better.
In the 1920s, nearly 8,000 Mennonites left Canada for Mexico and Paraguay in search of a new home that would give them the freedom, which they felt Canada no longer could.
“What mean these stones” is a poetic phrase that looms large across the doorway to our galleries at Mennonite Heritage Village (MHV).
