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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 |
July4 |
Pray that the Holy Spirit will bless
and
encourage Tim and Cindy Buhler and
daughter Kristyn, Mennonite Church
Canada workers in Macau, as they prepare
to leave after serving for several years, and
for George and Tobia Veith, with Michael
and Marika, as they return to Macau to
resource a wider network of Anabaptist
churches in the region.
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We are grateful to God for the cheerful
and willing support of those who
volunteered in a variety of ways to help
coordinate Mennonite Church Canada
Assembly 2010. Your encouragement
and willingness to serve makes possible
this important gathering of our church
family. |
Mennonite Church Canada is
partnering with SERVE Nazareth, a
program for people age 18 and over
who wish to learn about and build
relationship with the church in the Holy
Land. Applications for the six-month
winter program are being accepted
until July 21. For more information,
check out the poster on your church
bulletin board, look online at ww.mennonitechurch.ca/tiny/1368,
or call 1-866-888-6785 and ask for Kirsten Schroeder in the Human
Resources office.
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July 11
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As Delegates to Mennonite Church
Canada Assembly 2010 return to their congregations, pray that God
will
continue to stir within them a passion
for God’s church, a desire to share
what they learned through the time of national fellowship, and a
strengthening
of personal faith.
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Your support of Mennonite Church
Canada ministries has nurtured
flourishing relationships with sister
churches in Chile – and those
relationships played an important role
in establishing relief aid following the earthquakes that struck in February. Working
under Special Assignment
with Mennonite Church Canada, Titus Guenther introduced Mennonite Central
Committee reps to Anabaptist church
leadership so that together, they could determine appropriate responses.
Thank you for helping to build and
serve the global church. |
Explore Burkina Faso in a way that no
tourist could and experience the life
and witness
of a developing Church community. A
Mennonite Church Canada Learning
Tour to Burkina Faso will take place
Feb. 17 – 28, 2011. As they become
available, more details will be posted
at www.mennonitechurch.ca/tiny/1380
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July 18
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Northern Cheyenne Mennonite Churches
are hosting the Mennonite Church Canada
and Mennonite Church USA bi-annual
Native Assembly from July 19-22. Forty to
50 people from Canada and many others
from across North America will gather
in Montana under the theme “I Am the
Potter; You Are the Clay”. Please pray
that this event will inspire new and vital relationships and strengthen
identities in Christ.
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Mennonite Church Canada’s Resource
Centre is part of a new Anabaptist
Resource Consortium, creating an online
inter-system loan service together with Columbia Bible College Library (B.C.), Mennonite
Church Eastern Canada
Library (Ont.) and Mennonite & Brethren
in Christ Resource Centre (Ont.). Thank
you for supporting the Resource Centre
and contributing to the multiplication
effect of shared resources!
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Mennonite Church Canada News
Service brings you breaking news and
a wide variety of stories about the
many ways in which you empower
Mennonite Church Canada and
workers around the world to engage in
being the church at home and abroad.
News stories can be delivered regularly
to your inbox by subscribing at www.mennonitechurch.ca/tiny/174
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July 25
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Please pray that God will bless and
empower the decisions made at the
World Religions Summit 2010, which took place June 21-23 in Winnipeg.
At that
event, 80 religious leaders of the world’s
most prominent faiths gathered to hold
G8 nations accountable for the pledges
made in 2000 to support eight Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) intended to help end global disparity.
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The Strategic Task Force for Pastoral Leadership
Development, which
includes representation from our
post secondary schools and the
Area Churches, has begun its work
to map out a plan that will provide
sufficient and qualified pastors
and congregational leadership for
Mennonite Church Canada for the
next two decades. Your giving makes
it possible to plan for the future
leadership needs of the church.
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The Executive Committee of Mennonite
Church Canada’s General Board invites
you to join your voices in thanking God
for the upcoming service of Willard
Metzger as the next General Secretary
of Mennonite Church Canada. Current
General Secretary, Robert J. Suderman,
retires in August.
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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 |
August 1 |
Mennonite Church Canada Witness workers
Todd and
Jeanette Hanson and their daughters Kate and Claire are
returning to China after two years of North American
ministry. Please pray that this dedicated family will find
peace, joy and a sense of belonging to God’s wider church as
they transition. |
If you’ve ever
gone through the process
of searching for a pastor, you’ve probably
used some of the materials Mennonite
Church Canada provides – like Ministerial
Leadership Information (MLI) forms
that help churches and pastors assess
their experience and gifts relative to
congregational expectations. We also
offer Pastor Salary Guidelines. Your
support helps us help you! |
None at this time |
August 8 |
Willard Metzger, formerly Chair of Christian
Witness
Council, has been appointed to the role of General
Secretary. He will succeed outgoing General Secretary
Robert (Jack) Suderman, who served in the post since
2005 and will retire this summer. Please pray for the Holy
Spirit to guide each of these men as they consider new
and changing service to God’s church. |
August
15 |
Please pray for Samson Lo,
the director of Multi-cultural Ministry of Mennonite Church Canada,
as he helps strengthen congregations and leaders in non-English
speaking congregations across Canada in this summer and fall. |
One of Mennonite Church Canada’s
top
three priorities is to form a people of God.
Thank you for providing the financial
support that enables Mennonite Church
Canada to provide and develop uniquely
Anabaptist materials to assist in Christian
formation. To review available materials,
see www.mennonitechurch.ca/tiny/524
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| August 22 |
This month, Erv and Marian
Wiens begin a 2-year
assignment with Mennonite Church Canada as Resource
Workers to serve at the Korea Anabaptist Centre (KAC) in
Seoul, South Korea. Sarah Blackwell also begins a 2 year
assignment teaching English at KAC. Sarah is going with
her husband, Sam, who is employed as an English teacher
in Seoul. Please pray for energy and inspiration for these
couples as they settle into their new roles. |
August 29 |
Pat and Rad Houmphan have returned
to northeast
Thailand for another term of service after having been on
North American Assignment for 10 months. As the Borabu
congregation is growing, the Houmphans expect to relocate
to another town where church planting efforts will continue.
Please pray for the Houmphans as they minister to God’s
church during a time of political unrest in Thailand. |
