{"id":142,"date":"2015-11-10T03:48:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T03:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?page_id=98"},"modified":"2026-04-06T17:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:50:17","slug":"partnerships","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/?page_id=142","title":{"rendered":"Partnerships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2110\" src=\"http:\/\/tumc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0030-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0030\" width=\"338\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0030-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0030-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0030-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>Part of something bigger<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d288d3199151a2014f011dc5d29e3ab2 wp-block-paragraph\">TUMC is part of a regional body called Mennonite Church Eastern Canada, as well as the national Mennonite Church Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bb4b5262b38333c9fbefa0da5b63bef9 wp-block-paragraph\">We are partners in our building with the Toronto Mennonite New Life Church (<a href=\"https:\/\/iglesiamenonitanuevavitatoronto.blogspot.com\/\">Iglesia Menonita Nueva Vida<\/a>), a Spanish-speaking congregation, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/mnlct.org\/\">Mennonite New Life Centre<\/a> of Toronto, which does innovative refugee and immigrant resettlement work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-194c588eb479f154cd7bdecba207ebd8 wp-block-paragraph\">A church-owned home has been renovated to offer transitional housing to victims of human trafficking through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aurorahouse.ca\/\">Aurora House<\/a> ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ce7561c3dabee8999e0b2afc074bc784 wp-block-paragraph\">We also relate to a worldwide organization called Mennonite World Conference, which includes approximately 2.1 million baptized members of Anabaptist churches worldwide.&nbsp; (Photo: the 2015 Mennonite World Conference assembly in Harrisburg, Pa.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a4d9489027e4179d93ea1694f103c80b wp-block-paragraph\">We support and connect with the work of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a title=\"mcec\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcec.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mennonite Church Eastern Canada<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;(regional church grouping)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a title=\"mc canada\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mennonitechurch.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mennonite Church Canada&nbsp;<\/a>&nbsp;(national denomination)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a title=\"mcc\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mennonite Central Committee<\/a>&nbsp;(international relief, development and peacemaking)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mwc-cmm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mennonite World Conference<\/a>&nbsp;(global organization of Mennonite\/Anabaptist churches)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mds.mennonite.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mennonite Disaster Service<\/a>&nbsp;(cleanup and repair after disasters)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/inthistogethernetwork.ca\/\">In This Together,<\/a> a national network of affirming churches working to support inclusion LGBTQ+ people in Mennonite congregations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a title=\"scoc\" href=\"http:\/\/www.torontoareamennonites.ca\/ministries\/scoc\/scoc.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Clair O\u2019Connor Community<\/a>&nbsp;(a multigenerational residence\/nursing home in East York)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aurorahouse.ca\/\">Aurora House<\/a>, a transitional shelter for victims of human trafficking<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Refugee sponsorship &amp; settlement, aided by MCC and the&nbsp;<a title=\"newlife\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mnlct.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mennonite New Life Centre<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a title=\"ukraine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mennonitecentre.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mennonite Centre in Ukraine&nbsp;<\/a>&nbsp;(aiding needy Ukrainians living in areas of former Mennonite settlement)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a title=\"cpt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpt.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Community Peacemaker Teams<\/a>\u00a0(violence-reduction teams in conflict areas around the globe)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And many more fields of service.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of something bigger TUMC is part of a regional body called Mennonite Church Eastern Canada, as well as the national Mennonite Church Canada. We are partners in our building with the Toronto Mennonite New Life Church (Iglesia Menonita Nueva Vida), a Spanish-speaking congregation, and the Mennonite New Life Centre of Toronto, which does innovative refugee and immigrant resettlement work. A church-owned home has been renovated to offer transitional housing to victims of human trafficking through the Aurora House ministry.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":138,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-142","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13071,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142\/revisions\/13071"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tumc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}