Mission, Peace and Justice

Opportunities to get involved!

We welcome your gifts and skills on Mission, Peace and Justice Ministry (MPJ). This group meets monthly on Zoom, and coordinates peace-themed worship and faith formation series, service projects, special offerings, community outreach, and key activities including:

• HOMES affordable housing

• Saturday Meals Together - monthly community outreach meal and interfaith partnership

• Comforter making for relief

• Refugee sponsorship

• Creation care

• Spiritual Covenant Working Group - Indigenous justice

• Decarbonization Working Group

• Subsidized facility use by community groups

• Community partnerships

  • The Raw Carrot social enterprise (Mennonite Central Committee Ontario)

  • Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) & Dismas Fellowship Network

  • Grand River Friendship Society

Living justly and peacefully

Responding to the call to live in right relationship with God, the earth, our neighbour, and each other, 
we will strive to embody God’s reconciling love in our congregation and our households.
We commit ourselves to being advocates of this reconciling love, 
witnessing in our community and our world to God’s concern for peace and justice.

A heart for and commitment to peace and justice is a significant aspect of our faith life.  It flows out of our worship and is a significant part of our faith formation across the age spectrum.  There are many ways in which we try to live that out at Stirling and beyond: 

• Engaging in interfaith dialogue and relationship building within our community

• Offering hospitality and support to refugees

• Learning from Indigenous neighbours and trying to live in right relationship with our Host Peoples here on Turtle Island, by responding to the calls to action by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. In response to one of the calls to action, Stirling has incorporated a land acknowledgement statement in some worship services. Click here to see various versions of the land acknowledgement statement. See the following resources from Mennonite Church Canada: Wrongs to Rights and Yours, Mine, Ours
  See also the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

• Advocating on issues of poverty reduction, mental health, homelessness and addictions.

• Exploring practices of creative non-violence

• Providing some affordable housing through our HOMES program

• Caring for creation

Church-developed resources

• Anti-racism resource list