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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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May
4
(Many People’s Sunday)
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Creator of humanity, in the dignity of your own image;
Redeemer of humanity, in our common, desperate need; Sustainer of
humanity, in our shared longing for your blessing: We are your people,
your children. Together with all your children of every nation, race,
people, and tongue we gather in your presence. Accept our humble
offering of thanks and worship, we pray, for the sake of your Son,
Jesus, by whose death we are made your children, sisters and brothers
together. |
Richard Twiss is a First
Nations theologian and author. Using the lens of biblical theology,
he recognizes culture as the heart language of the Indigenous church – a
language that will free Indigenous peoples to live the abundant life
that Jesus came to provide. You can hear Richard Twiss on the Mennonite
Church Canada radio program, Church Matters, available in podcast
form at mennonitechurch.ca/tiny/598. |
Each Sunday, congregations in Mennonite Church Canada
worship in 13 different languages! With your support, MC Canada has
begun to develop resources in languages other than English. Thank
you! We’d like to do more, and appreciate your ongoing and
generous contributions for this ministry. |
| May 11 |
Pray for the Spirit of transformation and unity to
blow in your congregation and to stir up spiritual renewal. Pray
for a release from the things that bind and oppress us and that the
Sprit might inspire a burning passion to share the good news of life
with all around us. |
The London Mennonite Centre is a resource and teaching
centre rooted in the Anabaptist tradition and cultivating Christian
discipleship as a way of life. Thanks to your support, Vic,
Kathy and Janelle Thiessen are able to direct the centre and work in administrative
and hospitality ministry with those who visit. |
May 18 |
Please pray for the churches in South Africa that are
working to develop healthy inter-racial relationships and projects.
Dan Nighswander and Yvonne Snider-Nighswander, Witness workers in
South Africa, ask you to pray that God would work in the relationships
between those who are often fearful of getting to know others outside
their own circle in South Africa. |
The Mennonite Heritage Centre provides
safe and secure storage for archival records such as bulletins, newsletters,
directories and annual reports from Mennonite Church Canada congregations.
The inventory is managed and updated regularly on the Centre’s
website at mennonitechurch.ca/tiny/172. Your
support is helping to preserve our Mennonite history for church leaders
of the future. |
| May 25 |
Thank God for the prayers that make ministry possible.
Susan Allison Jones and Glyn Jones say, “we often resonate
with Paul who wrote those letters of thank you to the various saints
whom he got to visit on his travels. Without you and your prayers
our ministry would not be possible.” Also thank God for the
decision by Wilmot Mennonite Church to become an official partner
with the Allison-Jones’s and the ministry in Botswana. |
George and Tobia Veith and their two children live
in Macau where they provide pastoral leadership to a young church.
Your support of Mennonite Church Canada makes it possible for the
Veiths to equip, train and encourage emerging leadership in the church
in Macau. |
