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Prayer Requests:
Please pray for and with the Church |
Ministry Notes:
This is how your financial support of Mennonite
Church Canada is ministering...from across the street to around
the world! |
News/Announcements:
Stay in tune with the wider church |
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November 1, 2009
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Mennonite Church Canada Witness worker Daniel
Pantoja is working with the Integrated Mennonite Church in the Philippines
to coordinate relief efforts for victims of typhoon-related flooding
in late September 2009. Pray that adequate food, shelter and clean
drinking water will be available for all. |
Your gifts enable the development
of on-line resources such as this year’s downloadable Advent
booklet, “Bursting In and Breaking Out.” See mennonitechurch.ca/tiny/1179
Thank you for helping us make resources like this one readily available
for home and church use. |
The October episode of
Church Matters, Mennonite Church Canada’s monthly podcast,
features Pastor Gordon Allaby sharing the story of how his congregation
creatively incarnates Jesus’ peace in the public square in
Osler, Sask. Allaby was interviewed live at the MC Canada assembly
in June. Tune in via mennonitechurch.ca/tiny/1178 or iTunes.
Submissions about
sustainable living wanted! In 2010, Mennonite Publishing Network
will publish Simply Sustainable, a collection of ideas about how
people can live simply and sustainably while caring for creation.
You can share how you are living more sustainably by visiting simply-sustainable.org.
Reviewers and testers are also needed. |
November 8,
2009
Mission Sunday |
Relationships are at the heart of all MC Canada ministries – from
Formation and Christian Witness to Support Services. We invite your
prayers for rich and blessed relationships at home and abroad, nurturing
the soil for God’s love and grace to blossom and flourish. |
Following the Mennonite World Conference Assembly
in July, Mennonite Church Canada Witness helped to organize an
Indigenous Learning Tour that brought together aboriginal peoples
from across North and South America. Thank you for supporting the
development of these important connections! |
November 15,
2009
Peace Sunday |
On September 30th, a Private Members Bill proposing
a federal Department of Peace was tabled in Parliament. Mennonite
Church Canada has had a strong influence in shaping this bill together
with the Canadian Department of Peace Initiative. Please pray that
public resolve to support this idea will gather momentum throughout
the long process ahead. For more information, see departmentofpeace.ca.
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Through a variety of ministry partnerships and initiatives
such as the Peace in the Public Square proposal approved by Delegates
at Assembly 2009, Mennonite Church Canada is striving to spread the
message that God’s allencompassing Shalom – peace – is
attainable without violence. Your continued prayers and support help
to share peace! |
November 22,
2009 |
MC Canada Witness Workers in Macau, George
and Tobia Veith and their family, are currently on a North American ministry
tour. Pray that their engagements with congregations near and far
will strengthen existing relationships and create new ones. |
Your giving to Company of 1000 helped support 7
students from Conrad Grebel and CMU explore their gifts for ministry
in a local congregation through the Ministry Inquiry Program. Thank
you for your generosity! |
The November episode of Church
Matters, Mennonite
Church Canada’s monthly podcast, features an interview with Robert
(Jack) Suderman, General Secretary of Mennonite Church Canada, on
the topic of being a faithful church in times of challenge and tumult.
This interview was recorded live at the MC Canada assembly in June.
Tune in via mennonitechurch.ca/tiny/206 or iTunes. |
November 29, 2009
1st Advent |
Creating, Redeeming, Sustaining God, we enter this Advent season
with gratitude for Creation and Christ. We pray for your Holy Spirit
to comfort and guide us as we faithfully await Christ’s coming,
and for your plan of redemption to unfold. Amen. |
MC Canada Support Services undergirds all of MC Canada Ministries – from
keeping you informed about ministry and your pastor’s pension
plan, to providing a variety of behindthe- scenes administrative
services. Thank you for contributing to this foundational ministry! |
