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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! |
| March 5, 2006 |
Lent 1: Thank God for the many individuals in our
MC Canada congregations who have regular contact with Aboriginal
people in their workplace or otherwise. They are part of the “church
scattered”. Pray for extra support and encouragement for them
as they live out their daily lives among their neighbors.
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Mark your calendars! Mennonite Church Canada Annual
Assembly in Edmonton, Tuesday July 4th to Friday July 7th. For more
information visit (mennonitechurch.ca/events/edmonton/)
or check with your church office. |
Dann and Joji Pantoja, are MC Canada Witness workers
beginning a Christian peacebuilding ministry in the southern Philippines
island of Mindanao. While support from their home congregation is
making this new ministry possible, additional support is also needed.
Pray that they will be able to establish strong relationships with
Muslim neighbors. |
| March 12, 2006 |
Lent 2: Pray for church partners and mission representatives
meeting in Macau, China, March 13-16, for the Consultation on Anabaptist
Leadership Development in East Asia. Pray for wisdom and creativity
as church partners and mission representatives discern new approaches
to address leadership training needs for Anabaptist churches in
Asia. |
Mark your calendars! Mennonite Church Canada Annual
Assembly in Edmonton, Tuesday July 4th to Friday July 7th. For more
information visit (mennonitechurch.ca/events/edmonton/)
or check with your church office. |
The INTOTEMAK (“my friends”) Native
Ministry newsletter is being expanded to include news items, issues
and events that are happening across Canada. Your donations and
subscriptions (and articles!) make it possible for important communicating
and learning to take place among the “friends” who read
the newsletter. Maybe you want to become a “friend”,
too, and have INTOTEMAK come to your home! |
| March 19, 2006 |
Lent 3: “O Lord our God, we confess that we are pulled
this way and that by the gods of our day: material success, the
appeal of self-help culture and the desire to live without accountability.
Help us to turn from worldly-wisdom and trust in the wisdom of the
cross.” |
Mark your calendars! Mennonite Church Canada Annual Assembly in
Edmonton, Tuesday July 4th to Friday July 7th. For more information
visit (mennonitechurch.ca/events/edmonton/)
or check with your church office. |
The church is growing in China. Mennonite Church Canada Witness
is one of four Mennonite partners working together through the China
Educational Exchange (CEE). The Chinese church is being strengthened
and encouraged through the ministry of Christian English teachers
and through leadership training programs for Chinese pastors.
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| March 26, 2006 |
Lent 4: “O Lord our God and Saviour, we confess that as individuals
we cannot save ourselves from the failures and fears that beset us,
and as communities we cannot plan or pull off our own deliverance.
We look to you for forgiveness, healing and hope of transformation;
we are saved by your grace.” |
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The Connexus language institute in Seoul, Korea, is associated with
the Korea Anabaptist Center (KAC) which is supported by MC Canada
Witness. Despite a teacher shortage, there has been a strong response
to the Connexus English program which encourages relationship building
and discussion of faith and peace issues. Pray that enough teachers
would be found, and that relationships with students will be a strong
witness to their Christian faith. |
