Equipping No. 46 May 2004
a resource packet for equipping Mennonite Church Canada pastors and leaders

Greetings! We hope you find this issue of Equipping helpful.

Thanks for your help! Karen Peters – Equipping Coordinator – e-mail: kpeters@mennonitechurch.ca

Inside this issue of Equipping:

Mennonite Church Canada

• Prayer Notes and News - May 2004 (for your bulletin announcements and bulletin board)
  • PDF Version [41 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]

General Secretary’s Office

• Letter from the General Secretary - Dan Nighswander
  (for your bulletin board/newsletter and church leaders)
  • Assembly Discussion Plans – Winkler 2004 [45 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)
  • Pray for Unity [46 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]
• Resource Update (for librarians, educators, Sunday School Teachers, Pastors and Church Leaders)
  • No. 5 Highlighting Christian Education and Worship and including a New Children’s Story Worship Resource! [112 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]

Christian Witness

• Report from the Executive Secretary – Robert J. Suderman
  (For pastors, church leaders, mission committees and your bulletin board/newsletter)
  • Nominations open for Dunk-tank Candidates. [47 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]
• A Celebration Moment
  (A read out loud moment for your congregation, Mission Committee or for a church newsletter.)
  • Being the church together, all the way to China! [69 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]
• Mission Action Profiles (MAPs) (to photocopy for bulletin insert)
  • Paraguay & Vietnam [34 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]
  • Paraguay [29 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]
  • Vietnam [29 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]
• Multi-cultural Ministry Newsletter – Samson Lo
  (For pastors, church leaders and your bulletin board/newsletter)
  • May 2004 [78 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]

Support Services

• Assembly Sunday Worship Materials (For pastors, church leaders and worship planners)
  (for July 11 or your Assembly Reporting Sunday)
  • Assembly Sunday Worship Materials [93 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]
• Job Posting: Director of Finance (For your church bulletin board, newsletter)

Extending our Faith…

All materials below are hard copy only, please see your Church office for this material.

• Faith and Life Resources (for leaders, educators, and Sunday School teachers)
  • Summer 2004 Catalogue/Order Form
  • Information page on resources available
  • Mennonite Bulletin Series
  • Jubilee Update
  • Jubilee – Sunday School Curriculum
• Herald Press (for leaders, educators, and Sunday School teachers)
  • 2004 Resource Catalog
• Canadian Mennonite University (for leaders and pastors)
  • Vision – A journal for Church and Theology
  • End of Life
• Mennonite Your Way (for your bulletin board/newsletter)
  • 2004 Hospitality Directory order information

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