Oral Bible stories go viral in Ethiopian community

Translation work doesn’t always yield immediate returns. However, Spoken Worldwide recently heard some of their oral Bible stories going viral in a small café in Ethiopia.

Background: the Borana

For about three and a half years, a team in Ethiopia has been translating Scripture and equipping pastors for the previously unreached group of the Borana. This sub-group of the Oromo people is a remote tribe historically unreceptive to the Gospel.

Sprague congregation and border crossing guards bring Christmas cheer to local residents

Congregants of a Manitoba church have taken it upon themselves to build a food bank in their church basement and are now giving back with the help of the men and women who keep our borders safe.

handing out Christmas Hampers to residents in the RM of Piney, with help from the Piney Border Crossing Guards.

Rob Dueck, Pastor of Sprague Community Church, says up until a year ago, the RM was looking after Christmas hamper distribution, and then just before Christmas 2022, they asked the church to take it over and run it, with expenses shared between the RM and the church.  

Afghan refugees finding new homes thanks to EMC churches

Several southern Manitoba communities have welcomed Afghan refugees in recent weeks and months. 

Emery Plett is the Executive Director of the Evangelical Mennonite Conference (EMC), which has its head office in Steinbach. Plett says EMC is partnering with several organizations overseas, but primarily, they are working with the Canadian government to bring Afghan Christian refugees into our country.

Office of the Anglican Church of Canada’s General Synod falls victim to cyber-attack

The office of The General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada was a recent victim of a malicious cyber-attack. 

On Nov. 25, Archbishop Linda Nicholls, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, announced they were targeted by cyber attackers who stole money from their office. 

Nicholls says hackers, possibly from abroad, executed a targeted attack on an employee's email account using information available online.

Church leaders were able to quickly detect the attack after noticing an unauthorized withdrawal from the General Synod’s bank account.