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Prayer Requests:
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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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Oct 7 |
At the end of this month Glenn
Witmer is completing his service with MC Canada Witness and Mennonite
Mission Network in Israel. Please pray for him as he makes plans
to remain in Israel and engage in ministry under new arrangements.
Also pray for Gordon Janzen and Tim Froese as they visit Israel/Palestine
this month to discern further involvement of MC Canada in that
part of the world. |
Eastern Mennonite University is
offering an on-line course on “Basics of Parish Nursing,” Oct.
1 - Dec. 14, 2007, open to any registered nurse or upper-level
nursing student in an RN nursing education program. For more information
visit
www.emu.edu/
nursing/parish/index.html or
call (540)432-4982 for registration information. |
Professors and staff at Associated
Mennonite Biblical Seminary faithfully teach and mentor men and women who are preparing
to become pastors and leaders in our congregations. The General
Board of AMBS will be meeting from October 18-21 to engage the
vision of theological higher education for the church that your
support of AMBS makes possible. |
| Oct 14 |
Please pray for Vic and Kathy
Thiessen,
Witness Workers in London England with the London Mennonite Centre
which is partnered with 15 other organizations that share Anabaptist
values as part of the Root and Branch Radical Christian Vision
Network. This network “has a vital role to play in the
revitalization of Christianity in the UK.” Please pray
for the Anabaptist witness of the London Mennonite Centre and
for the Thiessens as they soon start their final 3 year term
at the Centre. |
Eastern Mennonite University is offering
an on-line course on “Basics of Parish Nursing,” Oct.
1 - Dec. 14, 2007, open to any registered nurse or upper-level nursing
student in an RN nursing education program. For more information
visit www.
emu.edu/ nursing/parish/index.html or call (540)432-4982
for registration information. |
Mennonite Church Canada staff work at 600 Shaftesbury
Blvd. in Winnipeg and several other regional and home office locations
across Canada. Your generous contributions keep the lights on,
the phone and internet connections open, and the equipment and
repairs up to date in all of our office locations. Thank you for
providing the tools for a productive work environment! |
Oct 21 |
Please pray for Todd and Jeanette
Hanson, witness
workers in China who serve in a context where Christianity and
Christians are often looked upon with distrust, fear, or suspicion.
The Hansons talk about the necessity of imagining various solutions
in a problematic context so that we as a Christian family find
ourselves continually being creative about our ways to minister. |
Mennonite Voluntary Service Opportunity The Toronto
Mennonite Voluntary Service (MVS) unit welcomes applications for
the following service positions in the Fall of 2007: Volunteer Coordinator
- Habitat for Humanity; Furniture Pick-up and Retail Assistant -
Global Closet Thrift Shop. Volunteers are actively supported and
encouraged by the Danforth Mennonite Church. Join a community of
volunteers serving the community through local Christian non-profit
organizations. Contact the MVS Committee of Toronto, c/o Margaret
Wall at mlwall@gmail.com or 416-534-2165. |
Witness Workers Phil and Julie
Bender ask you to pray “for
openness to new opportunities for relationships with students and
others.” They recently made a friend through a chance conversation
on a bus and ask you to pray that God’s Spirit might bring
other such persons their way. Thank-you for your support of the China
ministry that brings opportunity to share the Gospel through relationships. |
| Oct 28 |
Please pray for Will and Ana Loewen who recently arrived as Witness
Workers in South Korea and were immediately welcomed as part of Jesus
Village Church in Chuncheon. In their writing, it is clear that amidst
the many cultural adjustments, Will and Ana are already happily part
of a new community of faith in their ministry assignment with Jesus
Village Church, the Jesus Village School, and the Korea Anabaptist
Center |
Mennonite Voluntary Service Opportunity The Toronto Mennonite Voluntary
Service (MVS) unit welcomes applications for the following service
positions in the Fall of 2007: Volunteer Coordinator - Habitat for
Humanity; Furniture Pick-up and Retail Assistant - Global Closet
Thrift Shop. Volunteers are actively supported and encouraged by
the Danforth Mennonite Church. Join a community of volunteers serving
the community through local Christian non-profit organizations. Contact
the MVS Committee of Toronto, c/o Margaret Wall at mlwall@gmail.com or
416-534-2165. |
Upcoming joint meetings of Native Ministry (Canada) and Native
Mennonite Ministries (US) on October 25-27 in Clinton, Oklahoma,
hosted by the area’s Southern Cheyenne congregations, will
explore the possibilities for the Native assembly in 2008 and an
invitation from Indigenous conferences of Paraguay for Mennonite
World Conference in 2009. Your support is contributing toward new
healing relationships and bridge-building ministries. |
