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Prayer Requests:
Consider praying for the work of the Church! |
Announcements:
Stay in tune with the wider church |
Witness Notes:
This is how your financial support of Mennonite
Church Canada WITNESS is ministering...from across the street to
around the world! |
| January 1, 2006 |
On this day of new beginnings, pray for grace to
lay to rest the pain and trouble of the past, and for a daring faith
that steps forward boldly into the new paths which a loving and
trustworthy God lays before us.
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Call for Quilters and Fabric Artists:
Mennonite Church Canada wants to host a Quilt and Fabric Arts Display
& Auction at Edmonton 2006. Needed are expressions of interest
and committment to participate. Find out more at mennonitechurch.ca/events/edmonton/quilts.html
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Mennonite Church Canada Witness begins this new
year with Janet Plenert as the Executive Secretary.
Your prayerful support, and fi nancial gifts, are important to the
national and international ministries in Witness which lead, mobilize
and resource the church across the street to around the world. |
| January 8, 2006 |
Pray in this season of Epiphany that every believer
might have the grace to live unpretentiously yet boldly as living
epiphanies of the Presence of Christ in all the world. |
Call for Quilters and Fabric Artists:
Mennonite Church Canada wants to host a Quilt and Fabric Arts Display
& Auction at Edmonton 2006. Needed are expressions of interest
and committment to participate. Find out more at mennonitechurch.ca/events/edmonton/quilts.html |
Brian Dyck and Lynell Bergen,
returning Witness workers from South Africa, are speaking in churches
during January and February, sharing what we can learn from the
African Initiated Churches as they worship the same God and live
out the gospel in southern Africa. Your support helps spread the
word, helping churches learn from one another. |
| January 15, 2006 |
Jake and Dorothy Unrau, Witness workers in Neidergoersdorf, Germany,
are presently in Canada for two months. Pray for the congregation
in Germany as they continue to serve God thru the church in their
community and for the Unraus as they travel to churches.
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With the help of volunteers, Mennonite Church Canada Witness
sends out PrayerNet on a monthly basis, keeping churches and individuals
informed about prayer needs and praise items of ministries and workers.
Your fi nancial gift supports this powerful ministry.
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| January 22, 2006 |
Pray for Witness worker Omar Cortes-Gaibur, Santiago, Chile, as
he continues to give leadership to church leaders across South America
thru the Latin America Theological Fraternity as well as teaching
Anabaptist Theology at the seminary in Santiago. Pray for wisdom,
strength and clear guidance as he provides inspiration and leadership
in these settings. |
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Young people in Kherson, are attending Bible studies with Cliff
and Natasha Dueck, Witness workers in Ukraine. They are learning about
the difference God’s way of life can make in their lives and
in their community. Your contribution gives leadership to young adults
seeking alternatives to what they see around them. |
| January 29, 2006 |
Pray for Nima, a widow with three children who received a new home
in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, through the help of Joint Christian Services
International. Marlow Ramsay, MC Canada Witness worker, was involved
in helping Nima and her family get a home after learning about how
she found needed items for survival by sorting through garbage. |
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Being efficient stewards of resources by defi ning areas of cooperation
and by identifying ministry gaps and potential overlaps is what leaders
from different Anabaptist mission agencies (Council for International
Mission) will discern when they meet together this weekend. Your support
helps this process of collaboration and effi ciency building. |
