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Ministry Notes:
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Church Canada is ministering...from across the street to around
the world! |
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July 5, 2009
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Pray for Scott Bergen and Rebecca
Willms, MC Canada
Witness Radical Journey participants in Paraguay as they help local
Mennonite Churches host the Mennonite World Conference, July 12-19. |
The Mennonite
World Conference Assembly Gathered begins in Asunción, Paraguay
on July 14! Thanks to your support, Mennonite Church Canada is
able to play an active leadership role in preparation for this
gathering. |
Mennonite
Foundation of Canada is seeking an Executive Director.
Applications accepted until
Aug. 31, 2009.
For more information,
contact MFC at 1-800-772-3257
or via mfcwpg@mennofoundation.ca. |
July 12 |
Praise God that Paraguayan visas have been granted
to our Cuban brothers from the Mennonite Church in Cuba and the Baptist
Fraternity for participation in the Mennonite
World Conference in Paraguay, July 12-19! Many other MWC participants are struggling
to obtain their visas. Please pray that all visas will be granted. |
Your ongoing support of Mennonite
Church Canada Native Ministry opens doors to greater fellowship with our Aboriginal
brothers and sisters. The first ever Aboriginal Learning Tour took
place in the Sask., June 7-9. Following the Mennonite World Conference,
Indigenous people from across the Americas will participate in
a tour of the Chaco region of Paraguay and Argentina. |
| July19 |
Pray that Witness workers will be blessed with good health.
Currently, Lillian and Norm Nicolson and their infant daughter
Nadine are encountering malaria season in Burkina Faso, Dianne
Legesse of Ethiopia is travelling to Canada for a biopsy, and Daniel
Pantoja of the Philippines awaits cardiac surgery. (WoW pgs. 46,
52, and 79 respectively.) |
Thank you for your the support of the Mennonite
Heritage Centre Gallery. With your help, we have been able to use art to introduce
the good news into public schools and among prison inmates. |
July 26 |
Pray that God will supply provisions and healing to
areas where disasters have caused suffering. In Burkina
Faso, Mennonite
families have lost homes and stocked granaries to fires resulting
from lightening strikes. (WOW pg. 45) In Philippines, Witness worker
Joji Pantoja reports that regional clashes have resulted in burned
homes and thousands of evacuee-families. (WoW pg. 79) |
Thanks to your support, the Mennonite
Heritage Centre published a booklet introducing the 500-year Anabaptist / Mennonite
history designed for first-time visitors to the Centre. For more
info, visit www.mennonitechurch.ca/tiny/1069 |
