Equipping No. 102 January 2010
a resource packet for equipping Mennonite Church Canada pastors and leaders

Happy New Year!

	Leanne Plett Equipping Coordinator

A new year brings a chance to reflect on the past year along with the excitement and hope for what the following months have in store. Mennonite World Conference extends an invitation to celebrate World Fellowship Sunday on January 24, 2010. Also included in this Equipping is the Lent at Home resource, which will guide us through the season of Lent.

Leanne Plett – Equipping Coordinator

Please do send us your comments and suggestions (office@mennonitechurch.ca) about this or any other item with regards to Equipping. Thank you for your partnership in the ministry of equipping the church.

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Mennonite Church Canada

• Denominations: moving into the New Year…more reflections… – Robert J. Suderman (pastors, leaders, bulletin boards, newsletters) [150KB PDF file]
• 2010 Calendar Correction Memo [123KB PDF file]
• Prayer, Notes & News – January 2010 (bulletin announcements, newsletters, worship planners)
  • Web version to view
  • PDF version to print [70KB PDF file]
• Calling All Artists - Ray Dirks [84KB PDF file]
• God’s Mega Project – Robert J. Suderman [531KB PDF file]
  • Coverletter from Norm Dyck, Director of Congregational Partnerships [145KB PDF file]
    

Christian Witness

• Celebration Story: Broadcasting faith in Burkina Faso (bulletin boards, leaders, worship planners, and church newsletters) [150KB PDF file]
• Ministry Highlights for 2009 [210KB PDF file]
• Israel Palestine Tour and Conference Poster [143KB PDF file]
  

Support Services

• January is often a time of reflection – Louie Sawatzky (pastors, leaders, bulletin boards, newsletters) [140KB PDF file]

Christian Formation

• Children’s Stories - on-line only, based on lectionary readings (for worship planners, teachers, pastors, education committee, librarian etc.) mennonitechurch.ca/tiny/126
• Resource Update No. 1 (for worship planners, teachers, pastors, education committees, librarian, etc.) [456KB PDF file]
• Lent 2010 At-home resource: Holding on and Letting Go (for pastors, leaders, worship planners, and teachers)
  • Standard 8" X 11" [2,940KB PDF file] - Large file, best with High Speed Internet
  • Booklet [2,940KB PDF file] - Large file, best with High Speed Internet
• Special Sunday Worship Resources (for worship planners, teachers, pastors, education committees, librarian, etc.)
  • Stewardship Sunday, Jan. 17
  • Mennonite World Fellowship Sunday, Jan. 24 [160KB PDF file]
    • Mennonite World Conference Coverletter [78KB PDF file]
  • Church Education Sunday, Feb. 7
• The Parish Paper† (for worship planners, teachers, pastors, education committees, librarian, etc.)
  • Jan. 2010: “Become Confortable with Conflict:Step One move beyond it” [285KB PDF file]
  • Feb. 2010: “Should we Fine-Tune Our Church’s Internal Culture?” [111KB PDF file]

Extending our faith…

• MPN Spring Brochure and Order Form*
• MAX Canada “Assisting with Trauma Related to Loss”*
• AMBS
  • Pastors Week brochure*
  • Interterm newsletter (missed in the last Equipping)*
  • Summer newsletter*
• Conrad Grebel Review information brochure [440KB PDF file]

Note about Resources

All new resources are continuously being added to the Resource Centre Catalogue, where you can use keyword searches to find the resource you need.

*Hard Copy Only

**Note about Printer Friendly Bundle

We’ve bundled together all the electronic files into one document. If your traditional distribution method is via hard copy, you can now print the entire file in one step, rather than printing a bunch of files individually. Some items, such as brochures, booklets, or other materials not conducive to regular printing or with restricted copyright will continue to be available via hard copy only via our four-times-per-year hard copy editions of Equipping. Other items not in regular 8.5" X 11" form are still available as individual downloads.

†Note: Mennonite Church Canada’s purchase of a subscription to The Parish Paper INCLUDES:

1. Permission to provide copies to our staff and to the congregations within our jurisdiction in any of the following ways: E-mail, Postal, newspaper, newsletter, meetings, training events, and our Web site.
2. Permission for each congregation within our jurisdiction to:
   1. photocopy or electronically distribute for local use as many copies as it needs,
   2. post them on its Web site, and
   3. quote sentences and paragraphs.
3. Congregations within Mennonite Church Canada’s jurisdiction to which we distribute The Parish Paper do NOT have permission:
   1. to delete the copyright notice,
   2. to re-write, paraphrase, or change the wording of sentences and paragraphs, or
   3. to give ANY THIRD PARTY—other than our staff and constituents—permission to photocopy or reprint (in any quantity, no matter how small, whether for free distribution or for sale).

Note about PDF documents:

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