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MCC Manitoba awards scholarships to Menno Simons College and Canadian Mennonite University students

Posted by CMU Staff  |  Friday, January 9, 2015 @ 12:07 PM

MCC Student Award receipients. From left: Dylan Cohen, Stefan Epp-Koop (MCCM Board Chair), Clare Schellenberg, Dasha Zozulia (MCC Alumni Network), Alyssa Lord, James Derksen (Derksen Plumbing & Heating), Elsa Krahn (MCC Thrift Shop Network), Maya Janzen, Anna Bigland-Pritchard. Missing: Sarah Cullihal (Photo courtesy MCC Manitoba)
MCC Student Award receipients. From left: Dylan Cohen, Stefan Epp-Koop (MCCM Board Chair), Clare Schellenberg, Dasha Zozulia (MCC Alumni Network), Alyssa Lord, James Derksen (Derksen Plumbing & Heating), Elsa Krahn (MCC Thrift Shop Network), Maya Janzen, Anna Bigland-Pritchard. Missing: Sarah Cullihal (Photo courtesy MCC Manitoba)

Two Menno Simons College (MSC) students and four Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) students each received $1000 bursaries from Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Manitoba this year.

MSC students Dylan Cohen (Conflict Resolution Studies) and Sarah Cullihall (International Development Studies) and CMU students Anna Bigland-Pritchard (Music), Maya Janzen (Social Sciences), Alyssa Lord (Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies), and Clare Schellenberg (Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies, Biblical and Theological Studies) each received a student award.

The awards are presented to students who are interested in work that aligns with MCC Manitoba’s areas of focus: peace, restorative justice, human rights, and sustainable development.

This year’s student awards are sponsored by Derksen Plumbing and Heating, former MCC workers, MCC Manitoba’s Board of Directors, the MCC Thrift Shop Network, and Penner Farm Services.

The establishment of the bursary program is in “response to reflection on MCC’s rich and blessed history and with a vision to the future,” says MCC Manitoba’s Executive Director Ron Janzen. “Our constituent churches, academic institutions, and service organizations represent a vital partnership in the achievement of our mission of relief, sustainable development, and peacebuilding in the name of Christ.”

The awards are intended for students who attend a post-secondary institution connected to MCC’s constituency or who graduated from an MCC constituency-supported high school.

MCC Manitoba will offer these scholarships again next year. Scholarship application forms for the 2015-16 school year are available at mccmanitoba.ca/studentawards.

Ellen Paulley is the Writer & Social Media Coordinator for Menno Simons College