PRAYER REQUESTS / NEWS August 9, 2015

MENNONITE CHURCH rd North Kildonan Mennonite Church Ride for Refuge – Thailand will be taking place this year on October 3 . The ride is an ecumenical event where people will gather together on the same 1131 Roch Street, , , R2G 1S1 day to do good. This year the goal is to raise $45,000 to cover the costs for Website: www.northkildonanmc.com one year of ministry in Thailand (see Witness Notes below). For more info on what’s happening visit https://rideforrefuge.org/charity/mennonitechurchca. “For no one can lay any foundation other than the one Visit https://donate.mennonitechurch.ca/project/Poovong to donate. already laid, which is Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 3:11 WITNESS PRAYERNET Pray for Norm Nicolson, Mennonite Church Canada worker in Burkina Faso, as he mentors several youth from the Evangelical Mennonite Church of Burkina Faso. Pray that he is able to pass on his considerable construction and welding skills to these young men. Norm serves with his wife, Lillian.

WITNESS NOTES Christine and Tom Poovong give pastoral leadership to the Maliwan Mennonite Church, an emerging Christian community in Khon Kaen,

Thailand. Vulnerable families in Khon Kaen become marginalized by poverty and a lack of sustainable income. The Poovongs work at income generation initiatives to engage their neighborhood with a long term goal of establishing a sustainable congregation. One business and outreach project of the church Welcome! Thank you for joining us this morning. We begun in 2015 is Menno Nursery. Through Menno Nursery, Tom and Christine are interacting with neighborhood families and children, mentoring hope that you enjoy this morning’s service and that community leaders, and inviting people to the way of Jesus and into the you will join us again. community of the church. Offering child care frees parents to explore other income generating opportunities. Together with other church members, the We strive to communicate God’s truth in a way that is Poovongs engage their neighborhood with the love of Christ in a region where there is almost no Christian presence. The Poovongs are from Trinity relevant to the challenges we all face. If we can help Mennonite Church in , Alberta. you, please contact us.

Lead Pastor. . . Gary Martens THIS COMING WEEK AT NKMC… E-mail: [email protected] Mon. Aug. 10th OFFICE IS CLOSED Cell Ph. #: 204-797-6737 Tues. Aug. 11th 6:30 – 10:30pm Young Adults Youth Leader. . . Chris Titterton Wed. Aug. 12th 7:00 pm COUNCIL MEETS E-mail: [email protected] SUN. AUG. 16TH 10:00AM WORSHIP SERVICE Cell Ph. #:204-801-9418 GUEST SPEAKER FRANK KLASSEN Care-Giving Ministry Team: Gerhard & Helene Krahn We want to welcome TIM WENGER to NKMC this morning. Alice Pound James & Kim Zacharias Tim is candidating for the Pastor of Faith Development position here at NKMC this morning. Members are asked Office...... 204-663-5059 Lower Auditorium . . 204-663-5060 to remain in the Sanctuary following the service to vote. Email ...... [email protected] Fax...... 204-661-1426 NEXT WEEK ~ AUGUST 16, 2015 SUNDAY – AUGUST 9, 2015 10:00AM WORSHIP SERVICE 10:00AM –WORSHIP SERVICE GUEST SPEAKER FRANK KLASSEN SUMMER SERIES – MY FAVOURITE PSALM

WE GATHER AS GOD’S PEOPLE Prelude AUGUST 9, 2015 – ANNOUNCEMENTS Call to Worship OUR CHURCH FAMILY Worship Music As We Gather Welcome, Introduction of Guests, Community Life In Hospital… Louise Lage Sharing Time Riverview Health Centre Anna Dyck Prayer of God’s People Let us remember and pray for our members in Extended Care and Worship Music My Life is in You Personal Care Homes, and also for those who are sick at home. Introduction of Family Life Pastor* Bethania Personal Care Home: Margarethe Baerg, Children’s story Martin Bergen, Agnes Derksen, John Goosen, John Guenther, Offering Music Better is One Day Susanna Harder, Anna Hildebrandt, Peter Janzen, Elizabeth Klassen, WE HEAR GOD'S WORD Margarethe Klassen, Henry Klein, Dagmar Redekop, Maria Wiens Scripture Reading – Psalm 84 Cedarwood (Steinbach) Jake Dyck Sermon Irene Baron Eden Centre Mary Guenther Worship Music Good To Me Maples Personal Care Home Anny Stein Oakview Personal Care Home Mary Pankratz WE ARE SENT INTO GOD’S WORLD Parkview Place Care Centre Katharina (Kathy) Wagner Benediction Residence Despins Hildegard Knopf Closing Song Zephaniah Taché Personal Care Home Rob Bell Postlude PRAYER REQUESTS/UPDATES *Tim Wenger is candidating for the position of Family Life Pastor. 1. Please keep John & Helen Zacharias and the family in your prayers as John’s surgery date has been set for Thursday, August 13th. 2. John & Erna Martens are requesting our prayer support. John completed his final chemo treatment on July 23rd and is dealing with health issues arising Worship Participants This Morning: from the after effects of the chemo. Speaker: Chris Titterton 3. Mary Pankratz has been moved to Oakview Personal Care Home. Please Worship Leaders: Janet Peters keep Mary in your prayers as she adjusts to her new surroundings. Children’s Story: Janet Peters 4. Louise Lage continues to heal and recover in the hospital. Please keep the Greeters/Ushers: Cindy Caouette, Margaret Kankel, whole family in your prayers. Zach Dueck, Alvin Toews Praise & Worship: Linda Loewen, Liana Klapecki WHAT’S HAPPENING AT NKMC… Mackenzie Zacharias, Jeff Zacharias Piano: Trudy Voth 5. Pastor Gary Martens will be on vacation from Aug 2 - 16. For spiritual Audio/Visual: Aaron Denysuik help, please contact one of the Care Givers – Alice Pound, Gerhard & Helene Krahn, or James & Kim Zacharias. In the event of the death of a member or another serious circumstance requiring a pastoral presence, Gerhard Friesen has offered to be available.

6. Directory Update: Abe & Elsie Bartel 11. Community School of Music & the Arts (CSMA) is a program of the New Address: 104-1820 Henderson Hwy. Canadian Mennonite University. CSMA offers excellence in individual or Winnipeg, MB R2G 1P2 group instruction in music, art, and acting for children, youth, and adults. Phone number remains the same. CSMA provides a positive, professional and safe environment where students enjoy their lessons in an educational atmosphere. Lessons begin September 12. 7. Visit cmu.ca/csma for details.

12. MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE – MCC -

Prayers for peace - During the month of August, MCC Manitoba invites you THANKSGIVING EVERY MONTH! NKMC is collecting canned and dry to join us in prayers for peace. Join us each Thursday in August from 10:00- goods in August for Union Gospel Mission. Donations may be dropped 10:15 at either of our Winnipeg offices or at our Plum Coulee warehouse. Our off in the container(s) marked “Union Gospel Mission” in the upper foyer theme for the month comes from Psalm 34:14 - "Depart from evil, and do of the church and in the education wing. Thank you in advance for your good; seek peace, and pursue it." Please join with us in prayers for peace for generous support of this program. The Mission counts on these ourselves, our community and our world. donations especially over the summer months when food and Grow Hope harvest celebration - Grow Hope sponsors are invited to join us monetary donations drop as people are away at the cottage. Please for a special harvest celebration at Artel Farms! Join us for lunch, see the field remember that hunger and homelessness don’t take a holiday!! where your acre will soon be harvested, and celebrate with us as we thank God for the crops and ask for blessing on the harvest. Come meet Grow Hope's 8. Sunday School volunteers required for next season! You are invited to farmer, Grant Dyck, and our first Grow Hope farmer, Cindy Klassen! Sunday, help nurture our church family by teaching one of the Sunday School classes. August 16, 1-3 pm. Please RSVP! For directions to the farm, visit We realize that this season has just ended, but perhaps God is nudging you to mccmanitoba.ca/events or call (204)261-6381. step in ‘at such a time as this’ and volunteer your services starting this September. Sign-up sheets are in the church foyer. If you have any 13. CAMPS WITH MEANING – CWM questions, please contact Shauna Zacharias ([email protected], 204-946- Phone: 204-895-2267 Website: www.campswithmeaning.org 1286) or Gary Martens ([email protected], 1-204-392-2026). Openings still available for those completing grades 3-6 at Camps with We are also looking for people willing to sew costumes for the Christmas Meaning’s City Day Camp session, August 24-28. Campers will explore Pageant. Winnipeg and enjoy activities such as swimming, picnics, Bible times, and much more. Register now! For more information or to register see website 9. ATTENDANCE & OFFERING FOR AUGUST 2, 2015 above or call. Attendance – Sanctuary 83 General Donations $3,998.55 14. CHAPLAIN POSITION: The Bethania Group is recruiting for an experienced Chaplain for a .5 one year term position (37.5 hours biweekly) at BEYOND NKMC… the Pembina Place Mennonite Personal Care Home at 285 Pembina Hwy. 10. WESTGATE MENNONITE COLLEGIATE – WMC in Winnipeg, MB. Deadline for applications is August 21, 2015. For more Phone: 204-775-7111 Website: www.westgatemennonite.ca information, please contact Ferdinand Funk, Director of Spiritual th The 11 Annual Westgate Alumni and Friends Golf Tournament in Care/Chaplain at 204-654-5053 or email: [email protected]. A support of WMC’s Capital Campaign fund will tee-off on Tuesday, August detailed job advertisement is also posted on our bulletin board. th 25 , 2015. Visit the Westgate website for sponsorship and registration info. Register or sponsor via e-mail to [email protected].

11. CANADIAN MENNONITIE UNIVERSITY - CMU Phone: 204-487-3300 Website: http://www.cmu.ca/ Xplore: At the Intersection of Faith and Life, A 55-Plus Enrichment

Program. CMU will offer four six week courses in Winnipeg starting Sept. 30. These courses will investigate dimensions of the Christian faith, our world, and life in it. There are no assignments or exams! Classes will be held at CMU. For additional information see cmu.ca/xplore, or call toll free 877- 231-4570. Timothy Wenger Psalm 84

Tim Wenger grew 1 up in Kitchener, How lovely is your dwelling place, Ontario in a LORD Almighty! 2 Christian Home. My soul yearns, even faints, He learned to for the courts of the LORD; follow Jesus from my heart and my flesh cry out a young age at St. for the living God. Agatha Mennonite 3 Even the sparrow has found a home, Church until he and the swallow a nest for herself, was 8, and after where she may have her young— that at River of a place near your altar, Life Fellowship LORD Almighty, my King and my God. (both members of 4 MCEC). He Blessed are those who dwell in your house; attended Sunday they are ever praising you. 5 School and Vacation Bible Schools throughout his childhood. He credits Blessed are those whose strength is in you, his parents for instilling a love of scripture in him. whose hearts are set on pilgrimage. 6 As they pass through the Valley of Baka, Tim went to Junior and Senior High School at Rockway Mennonite Collegiate in Kitchener, and spent his first year of University at Tyndale they make it a place of springs; University College, an ecumenical school in Toronto. Tim completed his the autumn rains also cover it with pools. 7 Bachelor of Arts at Canadian Mennonite University with a Major in They go from strength to strength, Biblical and Theology Studies, and a Minor in Theology. While at CMU, till each appears before God in Zion. 8 Tim served as a Fellowship Group Leader, Theology Discussion Group Hear my prayer, LORD God Almighty; Leader, Student Council Vice-President and Residence Assistant. listen to me, God of Jacob. 9 Tim has completed two internships. In 2009-2010, Tim participated in Look on our shield, O God; Radical Journey, a Service program of Mennonite Church Canada Witness look with favor on your anointed one. 10 and Mennonite Missions Network. He spent 10 months in Better is one day in your courts Pietermaritzburg, South Africa working with a youth group in a growing than a thousand elsewhere; congregation. In 2013, Tim completed his practicum at Steinmann I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God Mennonite Church in Baden, Ontario, where he preached, visited seniors, than dwell in the tents of the wicked. 11 and ran a bouncy castle. For the LORD God is a sun and shield; Tim met Stephanie Jorritsma at CMU, they became friends through his the LORD bestows favor and honor; Breakfast at Timothy’s club on Saturday mornings. They fell in love and no good thing does he withhold on October 4th, 2014 Stephanie changed her last name to Wenger. from those whose walk is blameless. 12 Tim is passionate about helping all members of the congregation to LORD Almighty, become ministers in their own contexts. He hopes to equip volunteers in blessed is the one who trusts in you. NKMC’s ministries to equip young people to be ministers in their daily lives.