Outtatown alumna wins $10,000 art prize
Erika Dueck fondly recalls her first week in South Africa with Canadian Mennonite University’s (CMU) Outtatown program in 2003. It included visiting a school in a Johannesburg township called Alexandra.
“That was maybe the best way to start off our experience there, because working with kids, they have so much excitement and so much joy. I remember them screaming because they were so excited ... and we got to go in and play with them and teach them songs. It was really, really great.”
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Bridge-builder profile: Steve & Stephanie Penner
Although Canadian Mennonite University’s plans to build a bridge spanning Grant Avenue go back to the early 2000s when Steve and Stephanie Penner were students, they remember the proposed bridge being little more than a laughing matter.
“We used to joke with our friends that the bridge would be built maybe by the time our children were students at CMU,” Stephanie recalls.
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CMU prepares newcomer for career as social worker
Odette Mukole’s great-grandfather was a Mennonite. When she arrived in Canada in 2000 after leaving the Congo with her three daughters, she remembered something her father told her: “Wherever you go in the world, you should look for the Mennonites. They will help you.”
Mukole initially arrived in Montreal, but soon moved with her daughters—who were 11, 9, and 7 at the time—to Calgary where she felt they would have a better opportunity to learn English.
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Bridge-builder profile: Julian & Lynnette Regehr
Starting medical school is challenging enough when you’re in your early 20s – never mind starting when you’re 33 with a wife and children.
But that’s what Julian Regehr did. After working as a paramedic for 10 years, he quit his job in the summer of 2005 and started med school that September.
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Bridge-builder profile: Pam Peters-Pries honours her father, Ron Peters
Pam Peters-Pries attended Canadian Mennonite Bible College (CMBC), just as her father, Ron Peters, did. During her time as a student, Pam knew exactly where her father’s Class of 1965 graduation photo hung.
“I was always conscious of his photo as I walked passed it,” says Pam, who graduated from CMBC in 1989 with a Bachelor of Theology degree. “It was interesting to picture my father as a young adult, having the same experiences I was having, especially knowing how significant his experience at CMBC had been.”
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