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The Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute (MBCI) is a private middle and high school with approximately 415 students from Grade 5 to Grade 12. MBCI's men's and women's volleyball teams have won provincial championships. The band has also won the Optimist Festival's Chairman's Award. Though MBCI is an inclusive school and has students from many backgrounds, MBCI's culture is most informed by the
Mennonite Brethren The Mennonite Brethren Church is an evangelical Mennonite Anabaptist movement with congregations. History The conference was established among Plautdietsch-speaking Russian Mennonites in 1860. During the 1850s, some Mennonites were influenced b ...
religious community—a strand of
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noted for its adherence to pacifism.


Notable alumni

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Jon Buller Jon Buller (born December 27, 1970) is a Contemporary Christian artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He now resides in Vernon, British Columbia, where he works as Pastor of Worship and the Arts at Vernon Alliance Church, a position he began in ...
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musician, founder of Hear the Music Ministries *
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, Actor * Cindy Klassen,
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medallist in
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* Starfield, a Christian music group


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Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online The Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online (GAMEO) is an online encyclopedia of topics relating to Mennonites and Anabaptism. The mission of the project is to provide free, reliable, English-language information on Anabaptist-related top ...
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