CMC Day of Prayer

Laßt uns hinzutreten mit Freudigkeit zu dem Gnadenstuhl, auf daß wir Barmherzigkeit empfangen und Gnade finden auf die Zeit, wenn uns Hilfe not sein wird.  Hebraeer 4:16

Let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.  Hebrews 4:16 NASB

Missionaries of the Week

Rudy & Erna and Jared Friesen serve with the Evangelical Free Church of Canada Mission. Pray for them, write to them.

9:00 PRAYER MEETING

Meet in the small room off the boardroom. Everyone welcome.

9:30 CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

Sunday School, Firm Foundations, Christian Life class (baptism)

9:25  DEUTSCHER GOTTESDIENST

Versammlunglieder

Einleitung

Bibel lesen, Beten, Kollekte: Franz Wiebe

Special Music: Veronica Siemens und gruppe

Predigt: Prediger John Hildebrand

Versammlungslied

Segenspruch

10:45 ENGLISH SERVICE

(babysitting provided up to age 3)

Hymns

Announcements & Offering

Message by Pastor Stan

Kneel for silent prayer

Prayer time as a congregation

Closing hymn

Benediction

This Week’s Calendar

TODAY, 3:00 p.m. Dave & Shelly Reimer’s bishop installation service. Faspa will be served afterward.

TUESDAY, 9:00 a.m. The Mission Sisters will make blankets for MCC.

TUESDAY, 7:00 p.m. PULSE Sr.

WEDNESDAY (Mittwoch) ACTIVITIES:

8:00 a.m.  Prayer meeting for Low German radio ministry

2:30 p.m.  Deutsche Bibel stunde

7:00 p.m.  PULSE Jr.

7:00 p.m.  Men’s discussion group on “COURAGEOUS”

7:00 p.m.  Bible study, both German and English

8:00 p.m.  Chor Praxis

THURSDAY, 9:00 a.m. Women’s DVD Bible study

FRIDAY, 7:00 p.m. Bibel Studium, FLETP

Mitgliedschaft-sitzung, Am 6. Februar, 7.00 uhr abends

Tagesordnung: 1) Wahl zur Bestätigung für das Diakon paar Diedrich und Helen Hildebrand. 2) Missions Komitee Neues mitglied. 3) Erklärung über die verschiedenen Kirch-komitees und wahlprozesse. Alle Mitglieder sind Herzlich eingeladen, um zu kommen und an dieser Sitzung teilzunehmen. Es wird auf Deutsch sein. Bitte kommt Betend.

A German-language membership meet-ing will be held on February 6, 7:00 p.m. Agenda: 1) Confirmation for Deacon couple Diedrich and Helen Hildebrand. 2) New Mission Board member approval. 3) Explanation about the different church committees and election processes. All members are encouraged to come and take part in this meeting. Please come prayerfully

Monthly evening program will be held next Sunday evening at 6:30.

Last week’s offering

The offering for Sunday, January 29 was $6,997.50. The amount needed to reach our budget per week is $8,602.42.

Soup & Pie fundraiser

On February 24 from 5:00-8:00 p.m. there will be a soup and pie fundraiser supper to benefit the Bolivia mission trip. Come and participate and enjoy some excellent food.

Youth Calendar

• Every Tuesday, 7-9 pm PULSE Sr.
• Every Wednesday, 7-9 pm PULSE Jr.
• CMC Conference Youth retreat February 17-19 at Camp Cedarwood with speaker Mike Fast.

Listen to Dee Harlijche Botschaft on CHSM Monday evenings at 9:30, or online at www.radio.chortitzer.com.

Community Events

MCC’s Thrift Store and Ten Thou-sand Villages Annual Meeting will be held on  Thursday, February 16, 7:00pm, at the Steinbach Mennonite Church on Loewen Blvd.  There will be a guest speaker, financial and managers reports, and music ministry. Coffee and refreshments will be served. Everyone is welcome.

New Bothwell Sommerfeld Church invites you to their Deeper Life meetings February 5-8, 7:30 p.m. nightly. The speaker will be Rev. John Klassen from the Altona Sommerfelder church. All are invited.

Music Night and Auction Fundraiser for Abe & Nettie Dueck will be held on Friday, February 3 at 7:00 p.m. at the Mitchell Seniors Centre, with coffee and dainties  to follow.

Vespers service tonight, 7pm at the museum. Come for a time of sacred choral music and Scripture. Admission is free. An offering will be taken

“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”

SCHS invites you to come out and enjoy their presentation of this musical classic from February 9–12. There will be three evening performances and a Sunday afternoon matinee.  Reserved seating. Tickets ($10) are available at the SCHS office during regular school hours or online at www.schs.ca.

SCHS Information evening

Steinbach Christian High School invites you to an Information Night on Thursday, February 16^th, 7PM, in the SCHS Chapel. This is for anyone interested in finding out how they can "Get Plugged In" to SCHS. M meet teachers, tour facilities, and have questions answered while enjoying light refreshments.

Prayer is so simple. It is like quietly opening a door

and slipping into the very presence of God.

(Unknown)

Quotes on prayer...

Prayer is a designated instrument of God’s power, as real and as “natural” as any other power God may use.

– Philip Yancy

God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil.

–E. .M. Bounds

Prayer can never be in excess.

–C. H. Spurgeon

Intercession is truly universal work for the Christian. No place is closed to intercessory prayer. No continent - no nation - no organization - no city - no office. There is no power on earth that can keep intercession out.

—Richard Halverson

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

– Corrie ten Boom

Our prayers lay the track down which God’s power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.

–Watchman Nee

Prayer is where the action is.

–John Wesley

Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.

–Thomas Hooker, Puritan

As it is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray. –Martin Luther

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God.

–Brother Lawrence

Prayer is “a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.

– John Bunyan

When I pray, coincidences happen. When I don’t, they don’t.

– Archbishop William Temple

Prayer is surrender – surrender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boat hook from a boat and catch  hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.

– E. Stanley Jones