Equipping No. 47 June 2004
a resource packet for equipping Mennonite Church Canada pastors and leaders

The Assembly Registration Materials have been sent to your church for Winkler 2004! We hope you plan to send your full complement of delegates. If you need any more registration materials please call our office.

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

Thanks for your help! Karen Peters – Equipping Coordinator – e-mail:

Inside this issue of Equipping:

Mennonite Church Canada

• Prayer Notes and News - June 2004 (for your bulletin announcements and bulletin board)
  • PDF Version [40 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)
  • "Mennonite Mob..." [49 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]

Christian Formation

• Letter from the Executive Secretary– Justina M. Heese
  (For pastors, church leaders and your bulletin board/newsletter)
  • The work of Christian Formation [52 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]
• Letter from the Denominational Minister – Sven Eriksson
  (For pastors, church leaders and your bulletin board/newsletter)
  • Leadership in a Time of Change and Conflict [46 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]
• Resource Update (for librarians, educators, Sunday School Teachers, Pastors and Church Leaders)
  • No. 6 Highlighting Resources for Worship Planners [81 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]
• Mennonite Heritage Centre – Archives (For pastors, church leaders and your bulletin board/newsletter)
  • Important Notice – Archives closed June 11 – 26, 2004 [46 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]

Christian Witness

• A Celebration Moment
  (A read out loud moment for your congregation, Mission Committee or for a church newsletter.)
  • God’s Healing Power [74 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]
• Mission Action Profiles (MAPs) (Bulletin insert, or to be shared with Mission Committee, Women’s Groups, or Sunday school leaders)
  • Bolivia & South Africa [38 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]
  • Bolivia [32 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]
  • South Africa [33 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]

ANNUAL ASSEMBLY – WINKLER 2004

• Friday Festival in the Park (For your bulletin, pastors, church leaders and your bulletin board/newsletter)
  • Festival Invitation [46 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]
  • Festival Bulletin Insert [30 KB PDF file - Help with PDF files]

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.