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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! |
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June 3 |
Please pray for International Mennonite Pastors
Coming Together (IMPaCT) Alberta 2007 and the invited pastors and
church leaders from Mennonite Church Canada Witness partners in
Bolivia, Brazil, South Africa, and South Korea. IMPaCT began on
May 25.
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In Brazil, Mennonite Church Canada Witness walks
with and encourages the church with grants that enable expansion
of ministries. With your support, the church in Brazil continues
to strengthen relationships with other churches as it defines its
role in the international Anabaptist family. |
| June 10
| Julie and Philip Bender, Witness
Workers in Chongqing, China recently had opportunity for discussion
about belief in the afterlife and about Easter with their students.
Please pray for the Benders as they keep learning how to be friends
with their students despite differences in language and culture.
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For Manitoba congregations: Should our tax dollars
help fund the Canadian military? Robert J. Suderman, General Secretary
of Mennonite Church Canada will explore this topic on the radio program,
Church Matters on Sunday, June 17, at 8:45 am CST on CFAM 950, Altona,
AM 1250, Steinbach, and CJRB 1220 Boissevain. Or tune in after June
17 at www.mennonitechurch.ca/tiny/158. Church Matters is brought
to you by Mennonite Church Canada. |
Your support of Mennonite Church Canada Witness
contributes to the support of evangelistic, peace, educational
and service ministries of Mennonite bodies in Congo. Thanks to
you, the Mennonite church in Congo, the first to be established
in Africa, is able to grow despite harsh economic, political and
social conditions. |
| June 17 |
Pray for the new Center for Anabaptist Resources
recently launched by The Union of Evangelical Baptist Churches
in Chile (UBACH). The Center is located in Santiago, Chile. Coordinator
Omar Cortes Gaibur, MC Canada Witness Worker, and the UBACH General
Secretary ask for your prayers as they give leadership to the program
and for the 20 leaders being trained as teaching facilitators. |
For all congregations outside of Manitoba: Should our
tax dollars help fund the Canadian military? Robert J. Suderman,
General Secretary of Mennonite Church Canada, will explore this topic
on the radio program, Church Matters available on June 17 at www.mennonitechurch.
ca/tiny/158. Church Matters is brought to you by Mennonite Church
Canada. |
Delegates from across the country will build
up the national church through worship, discernment and fellowship
at the July 3- 6 Mennonite Church Canada Annual
Assembly in Abbotsford, BC. The Assembly is the only occasion that gathers folks from across
MC Canada. Your gifts to MC Canada provide the staff support needed
to organize this major event and to extend its reach to others
through photo journals and daily newsletters posted to the MC Canada
web site. |
June 24
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During a recent visit to the Evangelical Missionary
Church of Cuba Cuba, Janet Plenert and Tim Froese heard passionate
stories of the church seeking to faithfully live out Christianity
from an Anabaptist perspective. Please pray that religious visas
would be granted this summer for a planned September course, so
that the teaching ministry of Mennonite Church Canada can continue.
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What does a Believer’s Church really believe
about children and their relationship with God? Pray for Elsie
Rempel as she researches and interprets what experts in the field of children’s
spirituality are saying from a Believers Church perspective and prepares
resources for our congregations on this topic. |
