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UNDERCURRENTS

MCC Ontario

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Frequency: 1 episode/47d. Total Eps: 47

How do we practice peace in this broken world? How can we make a meaningful impact in our community? How can we better align our faith and values with our action? For 105 years, MCC’s mission has been to show God’s love to all by meeting basic human needs and working for peace and justice. In this all new season of Undercurrents, we'll share not only the stories of hope and challenge from MCC’s programs, but also to help us learn from them and ultimately inspire us to action. Thank you for joining us - please subscribe! Sponsored in part by Kindred Credit Union.

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Ep 32 - Giving our best: generosity, specificity and riding the roller coaster with the Material Resources team

Season 6 · Episode 2

Thursday, February 12, 2026 • Duration 23:51

In this episode of Undercurrents, host Ken Ogasawara goes behind the scenes with the Material Resources team at Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) to explore how relief kits, hygiene kits, school kits, and canned meat are prepared and shipped to communities facing crisis around the world — and right here in Ontario.

What does it actually take to send a relief kit overseas? Why is MCC so specific about items like metal pencil sharpeners, heavy-duty nail clippers, toothbrush colours, towel sizes, and notebook page counts? And how does a brand-new 10,000 square foot industrial meat cannery help feed families experiencing food insecurity?

Transcription is here.

Discussion guide is here.

Volunteer at the meat cannery: https://mcc.org/MCCOntarioMeatCannery
Email dylanyantzi@mcco.ca for more details.

Donate toward a relief kit:

https://mcc.org/get-involved/giving/designations/kits-and-comforters
Petition from Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB):

https://foodgrainsbank.ca/postcard/

A major driver of crisis requiring materialresources responses, is climate change. Sign this petition so our government will respond fairly and adequately:

https://mcc.org/campaign/support-fair-canadian-response-climate-change-0

Undercurrents is sponsored in part by Kindred Credit Union.

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Ep 31 - Non-anxious presence, rocky soil and long-term peacebuilding with Rod Friesen

Season 6 · Episode 1

Thursday, January 29, 2026 • Duration 24:35

A 30 second scroll through the headlines will give you a glimpse of a world desperately in need of peace. But peacebuilding is not only needed in Palestine and Israel, or Ukraine, or in South Sudan. Peace is needed in our own communities and in our own lives.

In my conversation with Rod Friesen, we reveal three stories of peacebuilding from his career- and what we can learn something from each of these stories and how we can apply these lessons in our own lives.

Transcription here.

Discussion guide for small groups here.

Undercurrents is sponsored in part by Kindred Credit Union.

Production assistance from Christen Kong

Theme music by Brian MacMillan

Artwork by Jesse Bergen

Executive produced by Sandra Reimer

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Ep 27 - Spiritual Covenant with Adrian Jacobs

Thursday, October 17, 2024 • Duration 33:21

"I was looking for justice, tangible justice. I was looking for something that said, 'We're not just going to repent. We're not just going to be sorry. We're going to do something and here it is.'" With great patience and grace, Adrian Jacobs from the Cayuga Nation, Six Nations Haudenosaunee Confederacy shares a beautiful and challenging opportunity for the Church to make real steps toward reconciliation.

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Discussion resource here.

"A Global Solution for the Six Nations of the Grand River" - lecture by Phil Monture at the University of Waterloo.

"A Conflict in Caledonia" - a timeline from APTN News.

"Six Miles Deep" - a documentary from the National Film Board of Canada

Broken Walls - learn about Mohawk Christian musician and worship leader Jonathan Maracle and the incredible reconciling work he has done in his own life, and his decades-long ministry to all nations.

Undercurrents is supported by Kindred Credit Union.

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Ep 26 - Tending Tomorrow with Leah Reesor-Keller

Wednesday, June 12, 2024 • Duration 41:22

Our guest today is Leah Reesor-Keller. She is a speaker, leadership consultant, Transitional Executive Director of KAIROS Canada, and now - an author. We sat down to discuss her debut book, Tending Tomorrow: Courageous Change for People and Planet.

If you’re looking for the one magic bullet solution that will fix everything for everyone, this is not the book for you. Leah calls for us to make room for all the ways each of us as individuals, as communities, as societies and beyond, can do our part in working for a better future.

Pre-order Tending Tomorrow here or at your local bookshop! Available for sale on June 25, 2024.

Transcription here.

Discussion resource here.

Undercurrents would not be without the amazing support from Kindred Credit Union.

Editing support from Christen Kong

Theme song by Brian MacMillan

Artwork by Jesse Bergen

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Earth Day Special! - Imagining better futures with Dr. Sibonokuhle Ncube

Monday, April 22, 2024 • Duration 23:25

Happy Earth Day, Undercurrents listeners! Today, we're sharing an episode from our sister podcast, Relief Development & Podcast, produced by my amazing colleagues Meghan Mast and Christy Kauffman. We hear from Dr. Sibonokuhle Ncube who says climate change chose her since she learned as a child that people in her rural village in Zimbabwe suffered from drought and hunger. But today she doesn't focus on all that is broken and what to fear, she focuses her energy on working towards a better future.

Undercurrents is produced with support from ⁠⁠⁠Kindred Credit Union⁠⁠.⁠

Original music: Brian MacMillan

Artwork: Jesse Bergen

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Ep 25 - Affordable housing, part 2

Saturday, March 2, 2024 • Duration 20:09

In the second part of our mini-series on affordable housing, we hear from Beyond Housing executive director Dan Driedger - the single greatest challenge to building, the role of the private sector, stories from tenants, and more. Plus, a big life update from a previous Undercurrents guest!

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Download the small group discussion guide.

Advocacy actions:

1. ⁠Say Yes to Fair Rents! - Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario - ACTO⁠

2. ⁠Take Action: More Urgency on Housing Affordability - The National Housing Accord: A Multi-Sector Approach to Ending Canada’s Rental Housing Crisis⁠

Provincial and federal governments waive HST on development of purpose-built rental housing - CBC

Produced with support from ⁠⁠Kindred Credit Union⁠⁠.

Editorial support: Christen Kong

Original music: Brian MacMillan

Artwork: Jesse Bergen

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Ep 24 - (un)affordable housing, part 1

Saturday, January 13, 2024 • Duration 28:39

We sit down with MCC's Ontario advocacy guru Greg deGroot-Maggetti as he breaks down our affordable housing crisis: where we are, how we got here, and three (of many) solutions. Advocacy actions:

1. Say Yes to Fair Rents! - Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario - ACTO

2. Take Action: More Urgency on Housing Affordability - The National Housing Accord: A Multi-Sector Approach to Ending Canada’s Rental Housing Crisis

Comprehensive explanation of rent control:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/how-does-rent-control-in-ontario-work-1.6978670

Produced with support from ⁠Kindred Credit Union⁠.

Editorial support: Christen Kong

Original music: Brian MacMillan

Artwork: Jesse Bergen

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Ep 5 - David and Goliath (Palestine and Israel - re-release)

Wednesday, November 22, 2023 • Duration 28:02

In light of the horrific ongoing violence in Palestine and Israel, we are re-posting this episode from Season 1, called “David and Goliath” featuring Palestinian Christian Tarek Al-Zoughbi and Israeli Jew Sahar Vardi.

What happens when David becomes Goliath? This is our only international episode in Season 1. We explore the tragic realities of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation, and hear from those on both sides of the wall working for peace.

What can you do?

When confronted with the enormity of this story, we might feel angry, dispairing, or helpless. Here are a few action items for you to do to work toward Palestinian justice:

Advocate:

Sign this petition⁠. Call for a ceasefire and end to violence in Palestine and Israel.

⁠Sign this petition⁠. No Way To Treat A Child Canada - "I urge you to prioritize human rights of Palestinian children and hold Israeli authorities accountable for widespread and systematic ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian child detainees. "

Donate:

⁠Support⁠ MCC's humanitarian relief response in Palestine and Israel.

Pray:

Click ⁠here⁠ to read or download this beautiful prayer for peace for Palestinians and Israelis.

Links:

⁠A Cry For Home⁠ - a rich resource of stories from Palestinians and Jews living in Palestine and Israel.

Ep 8 - Home (Palestine and Israel - re-release)

Thursday, November 9, 2023 • Duration 42:28

In light of the horrific ongoing violence in Palestine and Israel, we are re-posting this episode from Season 2, called “Home” with Israeli Jewish filmmaker Lia Tarachansky and Palestinian poet Izzy Hawamda. It's a powerful story of shared humanity, shared land, and a challenge for all of us who live on settled land.

Urgent calls for a ceasefire in Palestine and Israel:

mcc.org/ceasefire (Canada)

change.org/ceasefirenow

A link to Lia Tarachensky’s feature film “On the side of the road” where she explores Israeli soldiers’ collective denial of their roles in displacing Palestinians.

https://vimeo.com/117772052

A link to Lia’s short film OCEAN which juxtaposed raw audio from her field recordings of the 2014 Gaza War, with images from her new life in Toronto: https://vimeo.com/181224988

MCC’s A Cry For Home campaign which is packed with stories, videos, fact sheets, and more:

https://mcccanada.ca/learn/where/middle-east/palestine-israel/cry-for-home

Ep 23: Water Walking

Season 4 · Episode 2

Thursday, October 12, 2023 • Duration 22:15

"Water is life." Indigenous Water Walker Mary Anne Caibaiosai takes us on a 200 km journey of prayer, solidarity and celebration.

Transcript here.

To learn more about the Grand River Water Walk, go to grandriverwaterwalk.com

Produced with support from Kindred Credit Union.

Editorial support: Christen Kong

Original music: Brian MacMillan

Artwork: Jesse Bergen

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