Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach is promoting Peace Sunday today.

Executive Director Gary Dyck says they are featuring a program online with Wilma Derksen, whose daughter Candace was murdered in Winnipeg in 1984. Derksen will share about how her Mennonite peace upbringing prepared her to deal with the death of her child.

"It's been thirty-six years and so just hearing where is the family at now," says Dyck. "And how Wilma and her husband came through that, her family came through that with kind of that value for peace and the heritage that Mennonites have in peace."

The online program will also provide an update on the Dirk Willems Peace Garden project. Dirk Willems is an early Anabaptist who escaped from jail. While fleeing from prison, he crossed over thin ice successfully. However, a prison guard was not so fortunate. The guard broke through the ice and cried for help. Willems was left with a decision, realizing that rescuing the guard would likely lead to him being taken back to prison.

"Dirk turned back and with compassion of Christ saved the man out of the water, even though he knew it probably meant that he would go back to prison for his faith and be tried, which he was," explains Dyck.

Dirk Willems was later executed for his faith on May 16, 1569, in Asperen, Netherlands.