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Sermon Audio Archive

This page holds links to the sermon recordings when available.

  2024

Mar 17 – Dying to the Smaller Self – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Mar 10 – Facing our Fears – Renee Sauder

Mar 3 – Unsettling Normal – Leah Reesor-Keller

Feb 25 – A Hard Teaching – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Feb 18 – Whisky, Beer, and Water – Franz Peters

Feb 11 – Membership and Decision-Making – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Jan 28 – Healing From Trauma – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Jan 21 – Self Esteem and Healthy Boundaries – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Jan 14 – The Weary Christian – Susan Schwartzentruber

Jan 7 – Sensing the Light – Ardith Frey

  2023

Dec 31 –  Spiritual Discernment – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Dec 24 – A House for God – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Dec 17 – Hope for the Hopeless – Franz Peters

Dec 10 – Hope? For the Earth? – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Nov 26 – Under the Rubble – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Nov 19 – How can we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? – Henry Paetkau

Nov 12 – To Have Peace, Listen – Jason Schattman

Nov 5 – Knowing our Loyalties – Fred Loganbill

Oct 29 – Creating Safe Places: The Gift of Law – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Oct 15 – Tending, Taming, and Rewilding – Leah Reesor-Keller

Oct 8 – God’s Extravagant Love – Renee Sauder

Oct 1 – Micro and Macro – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Sept 24 – Church is Hard–Like All Great Art! – Tom Yoder Neufeld

Sept 17 – The Church: Peace as Divine Junk Art” – Tom Yoder-Neufeld

Sept 10 – sermon – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Aug 27 – Interview with Joanne Bender

Aug 20 – interview with Mary Brubaker-Zehr

Aug 13 – Sharing by Allan Rogalsky

July 30 – Sharing by Maia Hadden – video

July 23 – Sharing by Marg Hull

July 16 – Interview with John Bender

June 25 –  Interview with Tito Gatako on his Ministry – video

June 18 – The Blessing of Boundaries – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

June 11 – Who Are You God? Why Me? – Fanosie Legesse

June 4 – Creating a space for God (text only) – Vanessa Schattman

May 28 – Spring Soil for Spiritual Rain – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

May 21 – Power of Life – Kyoung Kim

May 14 – Sharing the Faith – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

May 7 – This Land is Your Land – Tim Reimer

Apr 30 – Earth Day: Hope or Hopeless – Jason Schattman

Apr 23 – Salvation Through Christ – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Apr 16 – May Peace I Give You – Rick Cober Bauman

Apr 9 – Surprised By Joy – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Apr 2 – The Space In Between – Renee Sauder

Mar 26 – Wrestling with Law, Freedom and Spirit – Brice Balmer

Mar 19 – Who’s on First? – Franz Peters

Mar 12 – Extending the Circle – Ardith Frey

Mar 5 – Leadership and Communication – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Feb 26 – Choices Together: Building a Culture of Right Relationships – Leah Reesor-Keller (audio gets better after 1st song)

Feb 19 – The Prophet Amos – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Feb 12 – The Pentecost Surprise – Mollee Moua

Jan 29 – Lamenting Abuse – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Jan 22 – Membership – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Jan 15 – The Heart of it All – Jack Suderman

Jan 8 – Outward and Beyond – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

  2022

Dec 18 – Asking For a Sign – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Dec 11 – Getting There is 2/3’s of the Fun – Jason Schattman

Nov 27 – Who Knows? – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Nov 20 – Living with the End in Mind – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Nov 13 – Prayer and Active Hope – Jessica Reesor Rempel

Nov 6 – The Plight of the Bumblebee and What We Can Do About It – Lyle Friesen – a list of native plants Lyle has used

Oct 16 – Seeing God: We Follow Jesus Together – Arli Klassen

Oct 9 – Reflections on Gratitude – Irene Erb & Vanessa Schattman

Oct 2 – A Simultaneous Sign – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Sept 25 – United in Diversity – Leah Reesor-Keller

Sept 18 – Don’t Just Do Something – Pastor Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Sept 11 – Building a House of Mercy – Pastor Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Aug 21 – The choice is yours – Vanessa Schattman

Aug 14 – Fruit of the Spirit: Generosity – Franz Peters

Aug 7 – Fruit of the Spirit: Kindness – Myrna Miller Dyck

July 24 – Reading “The Gift of Strawberries” – Jane Snyder

July 17 – A Peace We Can’t Understand – Ilene Bergan

July 10 – Grace in the Surprising Power of God – Pastor Myrna Miller Dyck & Sam Roth

June 26 –  Fruit of the Spirit: Forbearance – Pastor Myrna Miller Dyck

June 19 – Rooted in God’s Love – Pastor Myrna Miller Dyck

June 12 – The Fruit of the Spirit as a way of Being: Making space for differences – Mabel Hunsberger

May 29 – Agony in the Garden: Lament and Activist Burnout – David Alton

May 22 – Homesick for Jesus –  Myrna Miller Dyck

May 15 – On Acts 10 – Catherine Bergs

May 8 – Celebrating Chosen Family  – Steph Chandler Burns

May 1 – Commitment to Right Relationships – Myrna Miller Dyck

Apr 24 – Why do we trim our hedges? – Jason Schattman

Apr 17 – sermon – Steph Chandler Burns

Apr 10 – mediatations – Myrna Miller Dyck

Apr 3 – From Scarcity to Abundance: A Mennonite Technophile’s Hope for Environmental and Economic Justice – Allan Rogalsky (text with references)

Mar 27 – The Beauty of Grace – Steph Chandler Burns

Mar 20 – God’s ways and our ways – Ardith Frey

Mar 13 – Human Fear and God’s Compassion – Marilyn Rudy-Froese

Mar 6 – Questions in the Wilderness – Myrna Miller Dyck

Mar 2 – Meditation – Myrna Miller Dyck

Feb 27 – Facing Our Call – Steph Chandler Burns

Feb 20 – Healing from Shame – Myrna Miller Dyck

Feb 13 – I’m Sorry for What I Said When I Was Hungry – Jason Schattman

Feb 6 – Around the Table: The Face We Long to See – Renee Sauder

Jan 30 – a face open to new truth from God – Rudy Baergen

Jan 23 – Divine Interruption – Steph Chandler Burns

Jan 16 – Seeing Ourselves as Jesus See Us – Myrna Miller Dyck

Jan 9 – Marked by the Water – Myrna Miller Dyck

  2021

Dec 26 – Where is the Glory of God? – Myrna Miller Dyck

Dec 19 – Blessed are the Chosen – Myrna Miller Dyck

Dec 12 – Children’s Pagaent

Dec 5 – Grace Offered to All – Myrna Miller Dyck

Nov 21 – Job’s Wife Speaks and Laments – Pastor Myrna Miller Dyck

Nov 14 – Peter and the Donkey – Sue Schwartzentruber

Oct 31 – The Sign of Jonah – Scott Brubaker-Zehr

Oct 24 – Willingness to Consider Another’s Perspective – Steph Chandler Burns

Oct 17 – Willing to Surrender – Myrna Miller Dyck

Oct 10 – Reflections – a few people

Oct 3 – Francis: Little Poor Man and Saint – Marg Hull

Sept 19 –  Words That Heal – Myrna Miller Dyck

Sept 12 – Advocacy and Action – Steph Chandler Burns

Sept 5 – The Unexpected Kingdom of God – Myrna Miller Dyck

Aug 15 – A Grief Journey – Dave Rogalsky

July 25 – The Miracle of Sharing – Ardith Frey

July 11 – Karen goes for a nature walk – Karen Buschert

June 27 –Behind these eyes – Margaret Looker

June 20 – Weathering the Storm – Steph Chandler Burns

June 6 – Courageous Imagination podcast – Margaret Nally

May 30 – Listen for the Whispers – Luke Reesor-Keller

May 23 – Who is God to you? – Jason Schattman

May 16 – Who is God to me? – Richard MacBride

May 9 – How do I experience the Love of God – Bob Nally

May 2 – Who is God in you? – Jean Paul Bushabu-Bope

Apr 25 – Who do you say that I am? – Ardith Frey (accompanying diagram)

Apr 18 – We Are People Who Must Sing You – Anneli Loepp Thiessen

Apr 11 – Seeing God in the Unexpected – Renee Sauder

Apr 4 – Turning Towards Jesus – Steph Chandler Burns

Mar 28 – Sing a Song of Healing to One Another – Jason Schattman

Mar 21 – The problems of David – Steph Chandler Burns

Mar 14 – Darkness and light, in us and around us – Glenda Ribey Rozomiak

Mar 7 – Reflections – Leona and Peter Penner, John Bender

Feb 28 – Digging Deeper – Ardith Frey

Feb 21 – Going Deeper – Steph Chandler Burns

Jan 31 – Reflection – Rudy Baergen

Jan 24 – God will provide – Rudy Baergen

Jan 17 – Towards a Grace-Filled Goodbye – Lydia Harder

Jan 10 – Love, Vulnerability and Truth – Jodie Hatlem

Jan 3 – A Mystery Explained – Rudy Baergen

  2020

Dec 20 – A difficult “yes” – Steph Chandler Burns

Dec 6 – God speaks tenderly – Rudy Baergen

Nov 29 – Contradictions at Christmas – Jason Schattman

Nov 15 – Shepherd: Gleaner – Jodie Hatlem

Nov 1 – The Great Hope – Rudy Baergen

Oct 25 – An ever present help – Jodie Hatlem

Oct 18 – God Speaks Tenderly – Rudy Baergen

Oct 11 – So I will praise you – Jodie Hatlem

Sept 27 – Rooted in Rest – Steph Chandler Burns

Sept 20 – Rooted & Grounded – Morgan Regehr

Sept 6 – Named as Beloved – Jodie Hatlem

Aug 23 – The Ministry of Reconciliation – Rudy Baergen

Aug 9 – Zacchaeus, you come down! – Jodie Hatlem

Aug 2 –Reconciliation with God – Rudy Baergen

July 26 – The Kingdom of God is like… – Jodie Hatlem

July 19 – Fully Known and Fully Loved – Steph Chandler Burns

July 12 – Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ – Jodie Hatlem

July 5 – The still small voice – Rudy Baergen

June 21 – My Outtatown adventure (slides) – Maia Hadden

June 7 – New life for dry bones – Rudy Baergen

May 31 – The Holy Spirit Does a New Thing – Steph Chandler Burns

May 24 – Hope in a time of struggle – Rudy Baergen

May 17 – Creation Care – Rudy Baergen, Richard MacBride (notes), Karen Buschert

May 10 – The widow and her coins –  Rudy Baergen

Apr 26 – On the Road Towards Hope – Steph Chandler Burns

Apr 12 – ReflectionsLeona Penner, Jason Schattman, Marlene Redekopp, Rudy Baergen

Apr 5 – Jesus took a towel – Rudy Baergen

Mar 29 – Seeing with New Eyes – Ardith Frey

Mar 22 – How to get water from a rock – Morgan Regehr

Mar 8 – Meditation – Steph Chandler Burns

Mar 1- Letting go of control – Rudy Baergen

Feb 23 – The terrain of our Spiritual Journey – Ardith Frey

Feb 16 – A night of wrestling – Rudy Baergen

Feb 9 – Living as Salt and Light – Leah Reesor-Keller

Feb 2 – “In the bleak mid-winter” – Henry Paetkau

Jan 19 – What is this Light? – Franz Peters

Jan 12 – Seeing – Jodie Hatlem

Jan 5 – Epiphanies Aplenty – Richard MacBride

  2019

Dec 22 – Advent Love as Promise – Doug Hatlem

Dec 15 – sermon audio not available – Children’s Musical

Dec 8 – Grounded in Hope – Margaret Nally

Nov 24 – Reflection – Jodie Hatlem

Nov 17 – All the rights and privileges pertaining to the apostle Paul – Doug Hatlem

Oct 27 – In the Lion’s Den – Steph Chandler Burns

Oct 20 – This little light of mine – Len Jewitt

Oct 13 – Were there not 10? – Doug Hatlem

Oct 6 – Living God’s Dream – Cynthia Neufeld Smith

Sept 29 – Pursued by steadfast loving-kindness – Jodie Hatlem

Sept 22 – Picturing the Last Supper – Doug Hatlem

Sept 15 – An invitation – Jen Helmuth

Sept 8 – I have commanded a widow to feed you – Jodie and Doug Hatlem

Aug 25 – Waste time with your families – Jason Schattman

Aug 18 – In the garden – Franz Peters

Aug 11 – Reflections – Karen Buschert, Richard MacBride, Marion Roes

Aug 4 – Take Off Your Shoes – Doug Hatlem

July 28 – The Better Part – Jodie Hatlem

July 21 – Beauty for Brokenness – Ben Cassels

June 23 – Midwifing and Naming – Jodie Hatlem

June 16 – “Peace. Peace. These people are strangers.” – Doug Hatlem

June 2 – Jailbreak – Doug Hatlem

May 26 – Who is Paul? – Morgan Regehr

May 19 – God’s Creation and Neighbour Love – Jodie Hatlem

May 12 – Mothering Love – Eleanor Snyder

Apr 28 – A dislocated society produces addictions – Joe and Stephanie Mancini

Apr 21 – If Christ has not been raised or Today in Paradise – Jodie and Doug Hatlem

Apr 14 – Father, forgive them for they know not what they do – Jodie Hatlem

Apr 7 – Father, into your hands I commit my spirit – Doug Hatlem

Mar 31 – It is finished – Doug Hatlem

Mar 24 – My God, my God, why have your forsaken me? – Jodie Hatlem

Mar 17 – Here is your son. Here is your mother – Doug Hatlem

Mar 10 – I thirst – Jodie Hatlem

Mar 3 – Women’s Work – Nina Bailey-Dick.  Audio-visuals used in the sermon: Video (starting at 4:27 attribution bias to  likability bias at 7:40) and Slide show: the State of Women at Work.

Feb 24 – A time of scripture, song and a sermon – Bryan Moyer Suderman

Feb 17 – Is there an app for right and wrong – Jason Schattman

Feb 3 – Anointed to preach Good News to the poor – Doug Hatlem

Jan 27 – Extravagant Hospitality – Jodie Hatlem

Jan 20 – The Music Carries Us – Dr Thomas Reynolds

Jan 13 – Water Spirit Fire – Doug Hatlem

Jan 6 – The Adoration of the Magi – Franz Peters

 2018

Dec 30 – Reflections from Irene Erb, Howard Gimbel, Vera Good

Dec 23 – Proclaiming Immanuel – Jodie Hatlem

Dec. 9 – The Silent Word is Pleading – Jodie Hatlem

Dec. 2 – What do we Await in Advent? – Doug Hatlem

Nov 25 – Things visible and invisible; a new creation – Jodie and Doug Hatlem

Nov 18 – Welcoming the Stranger – Ardith Frey

Nov 11 – Relying on the Prince of Peace – Jodie Hatlem

Oct 28 – Arguing with God – Jennifer Regehr

Oct 7 – Meditation – Mike Erb   Voices Together

Sept 30 – The ties that bind – Jodie Hatlem

Sept 23 – The Paradoxical Power of Humility – John Fast

Sept 16 – Postcards from the mind of God – Jen Helmuth,

Sept 9 – “There was a man who had two sons” – Jodie and Doug Hatlem, preaching

Aug 26 – Raising our Voices in Song and Prayer – Jodie and Doug Hatlem, reflections

Aug 19 – Sharing thoughts – Marianne Erb, Jane Snyder, Thomas Kessler

Aug 12 – Generations – Sue Wahl, reflection

Aug 5 – Can this church be bread from heaven for the world? – Doug Hatlem

July 29 – Built Together – Jodie Hatlem

July 22 – Finding Myself in Her: Feminine Images of the Divine – Charlotte Clarke

July 15 – All you can’t leave behind – Jodie Hatlem

June 24 – Am I a dog, that you come after me with sticks? – Doug Hatlem

June 17 – You have no bucket, and the well is deep – Emily Hunsberger

June 3 – Listen! You are fearfully and wonderfully made – Jodie Hatlem

May 27 – If this thing is of God’s Spirit – Doug Hatlem

May 20 – Pentecost and God’s Agenda for the World – Tito Gatako

May 13 – Nurturing our Gift to the World – Jen Helmuth

May 6 – We are the branches – Jodie Hatlem

April 29 – Haiti and Hope – John Fast

April 22 – All together now: the commitment of creation care – Katie Gingerich

April 8 – The Power of a Single Word – Joanne Bender

April 1 – Do not be alarmed – Jodie Hatlem

Mar 25 – Blessed is the coming reign – Doug Hatlem

Mar 18 – Lordly power and the power of the Lord – Jodie Hatlem

Mar 11 – Is Jesus asleep in the boat? – Ardith Frey

Mar 4 – To save life – Jodie Hatlem

Feb 25 – I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners – Christina Reimer

Feb 18 – Prepare the Way of the Lord – Doug Hatlem

Feb 11 – Imagining Healed Daughters – Thea Prescod

Feb 4 – Excellence and Vulnerability in the Body of Christ – Jodie Hatlem

Jan 28 – Guided Owling Mediation and Music – Jennifer Helmuth

Jan 21 – Jonah and the fierce urgency of silence – Doug Hatlem

Jan 14 – There is nothing wrong with you! – Nina Bailey-Dick

Jan 7 – Epiphany: a gift of the magi – Carol Penner

 2017

Dec 17 – How will this be? – Jodie Hatlem

Dec 10 – Does evil know that it is evil? – Jason Schattman

Dec 3 – Nevertheless…it is well – Jodie Hatlem

Nov 26 – The Matriarch’s Cave and the Least of These – Doug Hatlem

Nov 19 – Who does God choose to bless? – Jennifer Regehr

Nov 12 – Building Towers or Bridges? – Ardith Frey

Nov 5 – Noah’s Flood and the Nature of God’s gracious law – Jodie Hatlem

Oct 22 – Imaging G.O.D: Controlling the Brand – John Fast

Oct 8 – A Fair Balance – Jodie Hatlem

Oct 1 – I Corinthians: “Because there is one bread…” – Doug Hatlem

Sept 24 – “It takes a community…” – Dave Rogalsky

Sept 17 – Naked Anabaptism: Spirituality & Economics – John Neufeld

Sept 10 – No longer strangers and aliens – Jodie Hatlem

Aug 27 – The keys of the kingdom are in our hands – Peter Penner

Aug 20 – The Gifts and Calling of God are Irrevocable – Doug Hatlem

Aug 13 – Put Your Hand in the Hand – Norm and Marg Warren

Aug 6 – There is Enough – Jodie Hatlem

July 30 – Walking with Jesus in the Waters of Baptism – Laurence Martin

July 23 – Encountering Jesus at the bottom of Jacob’s Ladder – Doug Hatlem

July 16 – The Parable of the Sower – Eleanor Snyder

July 9 – He came eating and drinking – Doug Hatlem

June 25 – “one of these little ones” – Jodie Hatlem

June 18 – Towards an ecological future – Richard MacBride

June 4 – “…and they shall prophesy” – Jodie Hatlem

May 28 – GOD SCRAPES THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL. AND THE BOTTOM IS US. – Jason Schattman

May 21 – RUTH: LOVE IN THE TIME OF THE JUDGES – Jodie Hatlem

May 14 – HOW WOULD PAUL MINISTER IN WATERLOO, ONTARIO? – Brent Charette

May 7 – LISTENING TO GOD AT THE CROSSROADS – Kayla Wallace

Apr 30 – Glimpses of God Along the Road – Ardith Frey

April 16 – IF YOU HAVE BEEN RAISED WITH CHRIST – Doug Hatlem

April 9 – WASHING MY HANDS OF THE ASHES OF A FAILED POLITICAL REVOLUTION – Doug Hatlem

Mar 26 – GOD’S RESURRECTING LOVE – Jennifer Regehr

Mar 19 – FROM CRADLES TO GRAVESJen Helmuth

Mar 12 – A PILGRIMAGE OF FAITH – Ardith Frey

Mar 5 – LEST A SEED DIE – Jodie Hatlem

Feb 26 – THE GLORY: OF THE LAW AND OF JESUS – Doug Hatlem

Feb 19 – FOR HE MAKES HIS SUN RISE ON THE EVIL AND THE GOOD – Jodie Hatlem

Feb 12 – THERE IS NOWHERE ELSE TO GO… – Cathy Middleton, Director of Women’s Services YWCA

Feb 5 – PROTESTANT POVERTY AND THE MENNONITE WORK ETHIC (Slides)- Doug Hatlem

Jan 29 – SERVING AND SEEING WITH THE BEATITUDES – Jodie Hatlem