Mindful of others

Spring roll sales fund Lao Canadian Evangelical Mennonite Church ministries half-way around the world

Lao Canadian Evangelical Mennonite Church in northwest Toronto, with a Sunday morning attendance of no more than 40, is living true to its name. Even though it is a small "church plant" with all the challenges that new congregations face, it is already thinking of needs and people beyond the group.

Agnes and Joanne, two young girls in the congregation, are good examples of the mission-minded people being nurtured at Lao Canadian. In the fall of 2006, they were preparing to take their first trip with their parents to their homeland in Laos when they learned about a community …