Welcome

 

Peace be with you
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We are Calgary First Mennonite Church and we would love for you to join us for worship.  Every Sunday at 11:00 am, we gather together in our sanctuary at the corner of Richmond Road and 25th Street in southwest Calgary.  We sing hymns, pray, listen to scripture, and reflect together on what God is doing in our lives and in our world.  

 

Our congregation is a small but welcoming group of people from various backgrounds who are sustained by the love of Jesus.  Some of us are old and some of us are young; some of us grew up in this congregation and some of us only recently started attending.  However we are all on the journey of learning, growing, and discovering as we follow Jesus together.  

 

We recognize there are different ways of expressing faith in Jesus.  We are Christians first, but we are a congregation particularly nestled within the Mennonite/Anabaptist tradition.  An important part of that tradition, for us, is a commitment to understanding how the saving life and ministry of Jesus might make a tangible difference to how we live in our world and through our relationships.  We believe that when human beings are able to experience and reflect the incredible love, grace, and acceptance of God for us, then the result is peace with ourselves, with our neighbours, with our enemies, and with all creation.


Regular Happenings

 

  • Worship: every Sunday, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Sunday School: 1st and 3rd Sundays of every month, 10:00 am - 11:00 am
  • Coffee Time: last Sunday of every month following worship
  • Youth w/ Foothills Mennonite (various locations): every Friday, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
  • Church Council (over Zoom): 1st Tuesday of every month, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
  • Drop-in Neighbourhood Playgroup: every Wednesday, 9:30 am - 11:30 am
  • Inclusive Social Club: last Wednesday evening of every month, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm 

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Reflection on the Intersection of Faith and Science
February 11th

Reflection on the Intersection of Faith and Science

By Asher Warkentin

The kind of noticing I’m referring to isn’t just scientific – it’s spiritual. Paying attention as a way of honouring creation. The world becomes more beautiful when I pay close attention. The closer I look, the more wonder I see. Water droplets clinging to a spider web after a morning dew. Ravens frolicking and tumbling in the wind for no apparent reason other than joy. The intricate geometric arrangements of moss. All these small, beautiful things I would otherwise overlook.

For me, curiosity becomes a kind of prayer – wondering, asking, leaning closer. It is also a way of resisting apathy. Curiosity teaches me to care about creation and not let any details slip through the cracks.

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Reading Recommendation by Brenda MacDonald, Wildwood Mennonite Church.
February 11th

Reading Recommendation by Brenda MacDonald, Wildwood Mennonite Church.

We know that the biggest culprit in Climate Change is oil. It fuels our houses, our transportation, our economy. How can we transition away? How can we live without this energy that extracts, pollutes, causes imbalanced wealth, acquisition, and wars and keeps burning up, towards depletion, needing constant replacement? 

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A Menno Minute - Kienna Krahn
February 4th

A Menno Minute - Kienna Krahn

By Kienna Krahn

Community is a beautiful thing, and it can be an amazing beacon that shows people the hope that Jesus shines. When people can find a physical thing they can associate with hope, that connection becomes so much stronger.

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