Brosseau new MCC Quebec co-director

Annie Brosseau has been hired to fill the growing needs of Mennonite Central Committee’s program in Montreal. Brosseau will serve as Quebec regional co-representative with her husband Jean-Victor, who has filled the position on his own since 1996. As co-representative, Brosseau takes over the co-ordination of MCC’s Summerbridge and Harmony programs, as well as the administration of the Quebec MCC information resource centre.

“We have a generation of youth who want to understand more about their faith,” says Brosseau. “Summerbridge and Harmony allow them to grow in their Anabaptist heritage.”

Summerbridge is for young adults of diverse cultural backgrounds attending a Mennonite or Brethren in Christ congregation. Volunteers represent Hispanic, French, Asian and other Mennonite congregations in Canada. They serve in their home communities. Summerbridge lasts 10–17 weeks, and offers the opportunity to strengthen relationships with home congregations, build friendships and develop leadership skills through community work experience.

Harmony, a Montreal-based, cross-cultural program for French-speaking youth aged 18–24, takes its name from its core, which requires nine hours of musical rehearsal and training each week. Participants also spend time working in the community, studying theological issues and developing their spiritual lives.

Brosseau spent 13 years as editor of the Canadian Mennonite Brethren Conference French periodical Le Lien, an 8-page magazine that is published 11 times per year and sent to French-speaking churches in Canada, Congo, Burkina Faso, France and Haiti.

MCC Canada news release