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Prayer Requests:
Consider praying for the work of the Church! |
Announcements:
Stay in tune with the wider church |
Ministry 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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Nov 4 |
Peace Sunday – In a world
where violence has a root in our communities and in our world,
we pray that our church may be a beacon of your Spirit of peace.
Teach us to examine our own lives and to determine where reconciliation
is needed. Enable people of your church to live as confident ambassadors
of Jesus’ Gospel
of peace. |
Mennonite Church Canada Nominating Committee
will be meeting in November to discern nominations for leadership
boards, councils, committees, and representatives on boards of
partner agencies. Your suggestions and prayers are welcome. For
details, visit www.mennonitechurch.ca/ getinvolved/leadership,
or call 1-866-888-6785 ext. 132.
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Thank God for the 6th anniversary celebration of
Korea Anabaptist Center on Nov 3rd. Your support helps the center
provide Anabaptist resources and peace education to a growing number
of Anabaptist Christians in South Korea. |
| Nov 11 |
Mission Sunday – God, you call us to be followers
of Jesus Christ, and by the power of your Holy Spirit, to grow
as communities of grace, joy, and peace. You have called, equipped
and sent the church, a community of disciples of Jesus. God give
us the strength and perseverance to grow as communities in Christ,
engaging the world with the reconciling gospel of Jesus, so that
your healing and hope flows through us to the world |
Cuba Learning Tour Feb
4 -11, 2008 Looking for a unique experience at this destination in
the sun? Mennonite Church Canada is offering a learning tour to Cuba
hosted by Jack and Irene Suderman. (Cost is $2500pp. See www.mennonitechurch.ca/
getinvolved for
more information or call 866-888-6785 and ask for Hinke Loewen-Rudgers) |
Daniel and Joji Pantoja, Mennonite Church Canada
Witness workers in the Philippines are speaking in churches across
Canada in November. Thank-you for your support of the peace building
ministry in Mindanao, Philippines that brings the Good News to
a conflicted area. |
Nov 18 |
Thank God for the opportunity for Mennonite Church
Canada Witness to continue providing semi-annual leadership development
workshops to the pastors in the Evangelical Missionary Church of
Cuba. Mennonite Church Canada staff, Janet Plenert and Jack Suderman
recently returned from Cuba. They ask you to pray for strong identity
and good leadership in the growing Cuban church that ministers
in a context that can lead toward church disunity. |
Conrad Stoesz’s ministry includes the collection
and preservation of documents that help bring understanding and shape
identity often while working on a family, community or congregational
history. He also promotes the web site www.alternativeservice.ca which tells the story of Canada’s conscientious objectors.
Thank you for your support of this ministry. |
| Nov 25 |
Thank God for a good start to a ministry of teaching at Connexus
for Vanessa and Mark Wiehler who are new Witness Associates in South
Korea. They enjoy the community lunches among office staff at Connexus
and are getting adjusted to teaching Korean adults. Mark and Vanessa
need your prayer as they become acquainted with Korean ways of communication
and the best way to teach in a new context. |
Heads up for Youth! The next Mennonite Church
Canada Youth Assembly will be held July 6-10, 2009, at Caronport, Saskatchewan (10 km west
of Moose Jaw). Put this date on your calendar! |
Congregations across MC Canada are now finishing their budgets
for next year. Your support of MC Canada allows us to provide finance
and personnel committees with pastor’s salary guidelines, sample
sick leave policies and other human resource tools. Find these tools
and more by searching for “human resources” at the online
MC Canada Resource Centre: www.mennonitechurch.ca/
resources. |
