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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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Jan 6 |
There is a growing difficulty in recruiting English
as a Second Language teachers for three year teaching terms in
China. Mennonite Partners in China, a ministry partner of Mennonite
Church Canada Witness, has expressed concern about this shortage
and needs prayer and wisdom to respond to the situation as well
as prayer for more individuals to respond to the ministry opportunities
in China. |
Mennonite Church Canada invites you to participate
in an exciting visit to a peacebuilding ministry to the Philippines
on January 29 to February 8! Tour Leaders Gordon Janzen, and
Dann and Joji Pantoja will guide participants through times of
reflection, visits, and worship to gain a broad understanding
of God’s peacebuilding work in the Philippines. If you
are interested in this opportunity please refer to the additional
information that has been distributed to your congregation or
contact
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An updated translation of the Confession of Faith
in a Mennonite Perspective into Laotian is nearing completion.
Chinda Kommala, a lay leader in the Lao Canadian Evangelical Mennonite
Church in Toronto is the translator, and is testing his translation
in the Christian education program of his congregation as his work
progresses. Your gifts to MC Canada help provide support for translation
projects like this, which make key faith instruction materials
available to the church in a variety of languages. |
| Jan 13 |
Representatives from a variety of Mennonite church
and mission bodies in North America gather annually for the Council
of International Anabaptist Ministries (CIM). Please pray for MC
Canada Witness staff and the other representatives of Mennonite
Church and mission bodies as they collaborate in Anabaptist mission
efforts in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Latin America. |
Daniel and Joji Pantoja, Witness workers
in the Philippines, will host a learning tour from Canada in
the coming weeks. Your support contributes to the ministry in
the Philippines and makes it possible for Daniel and Joji to
teach others about peace in the Philippines and in North America. |
Jan 20 |
On this Sunday Mennonite Foundation
of Canada focuses
our attention on the task of faithfully managing God’s gifts
to us, particularly our material goods. Whether we consider ourselves
rich or poor, it is easy to be enthralled with wealth and its accessories,
and to assume that if we had more we would be satisfied. Pray that
God will bless the work of Mennonite Foundation, will help us find
contentment with whatever we have, and that God will provide the
strength we need to be faithful. Pray also that our generous God
will infect us with the joy of giving. |
The 2008 Mennonite Church Canada
wall calendar continues
our annual tradition of sharing information about special Sundays
like Peace Sunday and events sponsored by out ministry partners.
Look for it on your congregation’s bulletin board or check
out the online version at
www.mennonitechurch.ca, click on "Calendar".
Your support makes resources like this possible. Thank-you! |
| Jan 27 |
As part of Mennonite Church Canada, we are also part of a larger
body of Mennonites and Brethren in Christ. Together over 1.3 million
members and 202 bodies in 67 countries make up our Mennonite family.
Give thanks as together our global faith family remembers our common
roots and celebrate our worldwide community. |
Thank-you to everyone who has supported Mennonite Church Canada
as we together seek to grow the kingdom of God around the world.
Today we celebrate Mennonite World Fellowship Sunday. Your contribution
of energy, time, or resources has made a difference in the global
family! |
