S4E2 - Reconciliation in Practice: Stories from the 1% Spiritual Covenant

In this special conversation, we hear from Mennonite congregations who have signed onto the 1% Spiritual Covenant (committing one percent of their annual budgets to Indigenous-led organizations as an act of repair and reconciliation).

Leaders share the long journeys that led their churches to this decision, the questions and challenges they faced, and the surprising ways generosity has deepened community life. The episode explores what it means to release control, re-tell our histories, and take small but Spirit-led steps toward justice. Their stories invite all of us to consider: what does faithful reparation look like in our own context.

Guests From This Episode

Jonathan Neufeld & Elsie Rempel from Charleswood Mennonite Church, Winnipeg

Pat Manske from Stirling Avenue Mennonite Church, Kitchener

Esther Epp-Tiessen & Judith Friesen Epp  from Home Street Mennonite Church, Winnipeg