As we begin this new year, we turn to the third of our core values: Community. It’s already received some attention in our previous preaching series on what it means to be Anabaptist, and on having a global outlook, and we’ll highlight it in the next few weeks as well. Please join us for Sunday worship:
January 8 – Greg Sawatzky who works in our community with Youth Unlimited will speak on Jesus’ story of the Good Samaritan
January 15 – As part of our community, the MEI Concert Choir will be our special guests
January 22 – We gather as a community of faith for the Lord’s Supper, and we join with other churches for an afternoon celebration of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity with Pastor April Yamasaki giving a short meditation. Everyone is invited to this joint service at St. Ann’s Church, 33333 Mayfair Avenue, Abbotsford, January 22, 2017, at 3 pm Light refreshments to follow in gym.
January 29 – Pastor April Yamasaki preaching for World Fellowship Sunday
February 5 – Gary Yamasaki preaching on the early church community in Acts 2:42-47
February 12 – Community in action with Gerald Neufeld, our music coordinator and pastor of the Japanese Mennonite Church, speaking on how God led him to donate a kidney.
February 19 – Many Peoples Sunday with Pastor April Yamasaki preaching
February 26 – Transfiguration Sunday –mountain-top community with three of Jesus’ disciples, Jesus, Moses, and Elijah in Matthew 17:1-9.
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