Seniors at Rockway Mennonite Collegiate auto shop, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, raised money to convert a 1997 GMC Sonoma S-10 pick-up truck from gas to electric. While students studied pollution, they created a vehicle that is useful for the average citizen and much healthier for the environment. The truck uses batteries that are 98 percent recyclable and, by the end of next semester, will have no direct emissions. At its completion in the coming months, the truck will be sold and the proceeds put toward future environmental projects at the school.

To read more, click on “Past Issues.” Go into 2009 and click on Volume 13 No. 15. “The Wheels are Turning” can be found in the left hand column. 

Ruth Schroeder and Dorothy Friesen, residents of Lindenwood Estates Retirement Community, know how to give cheerfully. In 2008, they came up with a plan to use scrap pieces of fabric to create reusable bags to sell at Mennonite Central Committee’s Relief Sale in Winnipeg, Canada. The bags were so popular that, this year, a group of 16 women gathered for 14 Monday’s to create 360 bags for the sale. Selling for $3 a piece, the bags brought in a total of $1140. The women have high hopes to continue the project again next year.

To read more, click on “Past Issues.” Go into 2009 and click on Volume 13, No. 15. “Raising Money for MCC, Saving the Environment” can be found in the left hand column.

Mennonite Church Canada unites Mennonite congregations across the nation. Their vision invites growth of individuals and communities and, out of that growth, outreach to the world. The Resource Centre is an electronic library that crosses the miles and time differences. Canadian residents are welcome to search for and order books, DVD’s and other library resources on subjects ranging from the Bible, global awareness, peace, social issues and youth ministry. Though items are not shipped across the Canadian/U.S. border, citizens of the U.S. are invited to visit their web for helpful links to sources in their own country.

This is a one-stop-shop for reliable, up-to-date materials – a brilliant resource.

www.mennonitechurch.ca/resourcecentre