Mission, Peace and Justice

Opportunities to get involved!

  • Mission, Peace and Justice Ministry: We welcome your gifts and skills on “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

    • The Raw Carrot social enterprise

    • Circles of Support and Accountability & Dismas Fellowship Network gatherings

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

    • Comforter-making for Mennonite Central Committee’s global relief efforts

    • Refugee sponsorship

    • Creation care

    • Spiritual Covenant Working Group - Indigenous justice

    • Decarbonization Working Group - Stirling 100th anniversary initiative to decarbonize our church building

    • Subsidized facility use by community groups

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, here at Stirling Ave. Mennonite Church.  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: 

  1. Engaging in interfaith dialogue and relationship building within our community

  2. Offering hospitality and support to refugees

  3. 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

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

  5. Trying to be practitioners of creative non-violence

  6. Providing some affordable housing through our HOMES program

  7. Caring for the creation

Church-developed resources