Village News

Mennonite Heritage Village (MHV) is excited to receive an Award of Excellence from the Association of Manitoba Museums (AMM).

When visiting the farm houses at the Mennonite Heritage Village (MHV), I’m reminded of a time when there was more silence and simplicity in the world.

The theme for this final week of Advent (Christmas) is joy. Hopefully, this series will encourage those who are overwhelmed by unrealistic expectations to appreciate these beautiful Advent themes from the bottom up.

The theme for this third week of Advent (Christmas) is love. However, we don’t always feel loving and sometimes we feel other emotions like anger which can be a counterpart to love.

The theme for this second week of Advent (Christmas) is peace. Once again just like the first theme of hope, if we expect to always be filled with this sentiment and nothing else, we are sure to be let down.

The four weekly themes of Advent (Christmas) are hope, peace, joy, and love. If we expect to always be filled with those four sentiments and nothing else, we are sure to be let down.

With all these waves of a pandemic, isn’t it nice to have some anchors in the boat? Recently, I heard someone refer to museums such as the Mennonite Heritage Village (MHV) as an anchor institution.

Jacob Harms Cornelsen of Rosenort, Manitoba enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on April 1, 1916, at seventeen years old.

Maps have many purposes. Here’s one you may have not thought of, as shared by Czech poet Miroslav Holub.

Count me among the odd, but I love cemeteries. These sacred places hold within them a treasure trove of stories.