Equipping
a resource packet for equipping Mennonite Church Canada pastors and leaders

No. 32 December 2002 / January 2003

With this issue we bring to a close another year of Equipping. We hope we have informed, inspired, invited, and involved you in the work of Mennonite Church Canada’s programs and the information we send out to you. We wish you all God’s Peace during the Advent and Christmas season.

You can help us “do together what we cannot do alone” by ensuring the items in this issue find a home with the right person in your congregation.

- Karen Peters, Equipping Coordinator - e-mail: kpeters@mennonitechurch.ca

Inside this issue of Equipping:

General Secretary's Office

• Letter from Dan Nighswander (for your bulletin board, leaders, and worship planners)

Mennonite Church Canada

• Prayer requests for the months of December and January (for your bulletin)

Christian Formation

Executive Office

• Letter from Justina Heese

Denominational Minister's Office

• "The Irrational Season" Reflection on the busy times of Advent and Christmas (for leaders, worship planners, and your bulletin board)
• "God will open to us a door" A five session worship, prayer and study guide (for adult education leaders, more copies available on request, $3.00 each) - Not available online
• The Parish Paper (for pastors and congregational leaders) - Not available online.

Youth Ministries

• Mennonite Church Canada Youth Assembly St. Catharines 2003 (information for your youth, youth pastor, youth sponsors, parents of youth, and youth event planners) [566 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]
• Event reminder Book Marks – 20 to give out to your youth group (more available, free on request) - Not available online

Resource Centre Updates

• No. 18 – Highlighting Resources for Worship Planners [31 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]
• No. 19 – Highlighting Resources for Christian Education Committees [34 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]

Christian Education and Nurture

• Christmas Gift Idea: “Gods love is for Everybody - Songs for Small and Tall” - Music CD poster (for your bulletin board). [69 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]

Christian Witness

• Letter from Executive Secretary – Robert J. Suderman (for your bulletin board and church leaders)

Native Ministries

• Christmas Gift Idea: “The Disappearance and Resurgence of the Buffalo” – By Jo Cooper.

Outreach and Church Planting

• Churches Planting Churches (for your bulletin board, leaders, outreach, mission and evangelism committees) [125 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]

Witness Notes – for December and January

• December 2002 Witness Notes (for your bulletin)
• January 2003 Witness Notes (for your bulletin)

Christian Peacemaker Teams

• “Child of God” Letters invite Colombian armed actors to live peacefully (for your bulletin boards, peace and justice advocates, mailboxes) - Not available online

Support Services

• Mennonite Church Canada Event Calendar (2 copies, additional copies available on request) - Not available online
  • However, see our Events page for the online equivalent

Beyond Mennonite Church Canada

• Faith and Life Resources - Not available online
• Vacation Bible School 2003 - Not available online
• Resources for Faith and Life – December 200 - Not available online

MC USA Equipping - Binational Materials

• Not offered on this site. See MC USA's package at http://www.mph.org/equipping/