|
Date |
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 |
|
All January, 2010
|
God, we are grateful for the many ways you have expressed
your love for us and the continual renewal you offer us through Christ.
We pray that you will show us how to carry out your will on earth
as it is in heaven. Amen. |
Your encouragement and support have
enabled us to create a new website that promotes non-violent approaches
to peace building. See liveforpeace.org to learn more. Praise
God for revealing new ways to share God’s message of healing
and hope! |
TEXTILE/FABRIC
ARTISTS are
invited to participate in Acts of Peace/Art
for Peace, an exhibition
at the Mennonite Church Canada assembly in Calgary, June 29-July
3, 2010. Email Ray Dirks at rdirks@mennonitechurch.ca for
submission information. Or, go to the Gallery Website: mennonitechurch.ca/programs/gallery |
January 3,
2010 |
Please pray that God will bless the peace building
efforts of MC Canada Witness workers to the Philippines, Daniel
and Joji Pantoja. Through Peacebuilders Community, the Pantojas are education
people from all sides of conflicts in non-violent approaches to building
peace. |
Thank you for your prayers and financial support
in making the MC Canada Youth Assembly 2009 a great experience!
Please pray for planners as they prepare for the 2011 Youth Assembly,
in Waterloo Ont. Thanks for your continued support! |
January 10, 2010 |
The K-9 students of Menno Simons Christian
School in Calgary
are taking part in Mennonite Church Canada’s “1,000
Acts of Peace” initiative. From sharing ideas for peace in
chapel time to participating a variety of service projects and
recording three acts of peace each day in their journals, they
are making the exploration of peace their school mission. Pray
that God will bless these students in their efforts – and
that those efforts will be contagious! |
With your support, Mennonite Church Canada is engaged in a ministry
partnership with the Union of Evangelical Baptist Churches of Chile
(UBACH). This sister church relationship has contributed to the development
of CERCAPAZ – the Anabaptist Christian Resource Centre for
Peace – allowing UBACH, the national Baptist denomination,
which is seeking to recover their Anabaptist roots, to resource their
congregations and other interested churches and bring non-violent
conflict transformation to a society where violence is far too common.
Thank you for helping us to share Anabaptist principles with our
Chilean brothers and sisters! |
We are grateful to all
our congregations for the prayers and encouragement we have received
in 2009. We especially thank God for the providence and guidance
that allows the work of the kingdom to continue. May we all participate
with Joy. |
January 10, 2010
Stewardship Sunday |
On this Sunday as we focus on faithfully managing all of God’s
gifts to us, including material benefits, pray that the Holy Spirit
will reveal to each of us how we might best share those gifts to
build God’s Kingdom. |
Thank you for your prayers and financial support in making the
MC Canada Youth Assembly 2009 a great experience! Please pray for
planners as they prepare for the 2011 Youth Assembly, in Waterloo
Ont. Thanks for your continued support! |
Mennonite Church Canada’s Peace
in the Public Square Campaign – Live for Peace – got
a great launch in Calgary. For stories and more check out liveforpeace.org. |
January 24, 2010
Mennonite World Fellowship Sunday
|
Please pray that Karen and Andrew Suderman, MC Canada Witness
workers to South Africa, will continue to be open to new experiences
and people, and pick up helpful Zulu language skills. (WoW Prayer
Directory, pg. 53, 54) |
Thank you for sharing your congregational resources with the Resource
Centre! To view the resources that numerous Mennonite Church Canada
pastors and lay people have contributed – or to share something
of your own – see mennonitechurch.ca/tiny/479. |
Got a Peace in the Public
Square story to tell? Inspire the rest of Mennonite Church Canada
and share it at the 1,000 Acts of Peace forum topic on liveforpeace.org. |
| January 31, 2010 |
Hun and Sunny Lee, formerly members of and leaders in Trinity Mennonite
Church of Calgary, have been commissioned for service as Mennonite
Church Canada Mission Associates to South Korea. Pray that God will
bless the Lees as they engage in new leadership roles with the Onnuri
Community Church in Seoul. |
We are grateful to all our congregations for the prayers and encouragement
we have received in 2009. We especially thank God for the providence
and guidance that allows the work of the kingdom to continue. May
we all participate with Joy. |
