Equipping No. 44 March 2004
a resource packet for equipping Mennonite Church Canada pastors and leaders

Greetings! Our Equipping this month is small but still jammed pack full of information. Enjoy!

Thanks for your help! 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 and church leaders) [50 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]

Mennonite Church Canada

• Prayer Notes and News - March 2004 (for your church bulletin)
  • PDF Version [39 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]

Christian Formation

• Letter from the Denominational Minister - Sven Eriksson
  (For pastors, church leaders and your bulletin board/newsletter)
  • There’s No Life Like It [48 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]
• Resource Update (for librarians, educators, Sunday School Teachers, Pastors and Church Leaders)
  • No. 3, Highlighting resources for Christian Education and Worship [71 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]

Christian Witness

• Letter from Kathy Fast – Executive Assistant Christian Witness
  (A READ OUT LOUD moment for your congregation, Mission Committee or for a church newsletter.)
  • A Moment for Celebration: Zaporozhye [77 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]
• Mission Action Profiles (MAPs) (to photocopy for bulletin insert) - Combined Brazil & China [35 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]
  • Individual China [30 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]
  • Individual Brazil [29 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]
• Thank-you note from Ricardo Esquivia, Colombian Mennonite Church (for your worhsip sharing time, bulletin board, mission committee, etc.) [36 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]

Extending our Faith…

• Faith and Life Resources (for leaders, educators, and Sunday School teachers) [54 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]
  • Request from Leader Magazine and a new resource entitled Training Ministry
  • Teams: A Manual for Elders and Deacons.

Note about PDF documents:

Trouble cutting & pasting from Acrobat PDF files? The newest version of Adobe Reader lets you select the exact amount of text you want, even from documents that contain columns (older versions of Reader selected text line by line across all columns – a process that would jumble text and challenge even the most patient user). Download the latest FREE version of Adobe Reader with this link.

• To select text from a PDF document, choose the “I” beam Select Text tool from the Adobe Reader tool bar at the top of the screen, and highlight the text you want to copy from the document. Copy it. Then paste it into your bulletin or other document.
• To select images from a PDF document, choose the "Select Image" tool from the Adobe Reader tool bar at the top of the screen, and highlight the image you want to copy from the document. Copy it. Then paste it into your bulletin or other document.