Canadian Mennonite
Volume 7, number 4
February 24, 2003
People&Events



Akron, Pa.—John Hostetler is the first staff person to have served Mennonite Central Committee for 50 years. He says a pastor’s “shoulder tapping” prompted him to volunteer with MCC in the 1950s. Hostetler has done financial work in Europe, directed material aid programs in Akron and coordinated special projects for the MCC East Coast office. While working in Frankfurt, Germany, he married Katherine Penner, an MCC volunteer from Ontario. Hostetler, now 77, says he plans to continue with MCC for one more year.

—From MCC release





Waterloo, Ont.—Darren Brunk, who recently completed an MA in International Relations at the University of Waterloo, left February 11 for an internship in Rwanda. He will be helping the National Youth Council there to develop its communication materials and plans for addressing HIV/AIDS among youth in Rwanda, one of Africa’s poorest countries. Brunk, 25, is an intern with the Coady International Institute in Antigonish, Nova Scotia (St. Francis Xavier University). The youth internship program is administered by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Brunk is a member of Rockway Mennonite Church.

—From release





Toronto, Ont.—St. Clair O’Connor Community Inc., a Mennonite housing project, is planning a new 160-bed nursing home. Construction is scheduled to begin in fall, and completion is slated for late 2004. The Ontario Ministry of Health awarded the nursing home bed licences to St. Clair O’Connor in 2001. Funding and construction will be provided by Borealis Infrastructure Management Inc.

—From St. Clair O’Connor Community release

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