Wednesday, March 14, 2012

The light is getting in

"Ring the bells that still can ring

Forget your perfect offering

There is a crack in everything

That's how the light gets in."

These words by Canadian poet/songwriter Leonard Cohen remind me of the "cracks" that Mennonite Women Canada experienced with the folding of Women in Mission organizations in British Columbia and Manitoba in 2008 and 2009. Without representation from those provinces, we realized we were missing key partners in our unique contributions to the national and international church, so we knew it was time to discern the next steps in how to encourage the "light" to keep coming in.

To that end, a task force of eight women was established …

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