Canadian Mennonite
Volume 12, No. 7
March 31, 2008


The Importance of Prayer

Hinke Loewen-Rudgers

MC Canada PrayerNet coordinator Hinke Loewen-Rudgers, standing centre, appreciates the volunteers—from left to right, Jake Harms, Anne Harms, Tina Wiebe, Anne Funk G., Ike Guenther and Anni Funk—who help mail out the monthly prayer newsletter.

A big thank you to those who are part of Mennonite Church Canada’s prayer ministry. Every month I have the opportunity to welcome to the MC Canada offices in Winnipeg several volunteers who make it possible for us to mail the monthly PrayerNet to prayer supporters around the world.

Jake and Anne Harms and a small group of friends have put together the monthly PrayerNet mailings for several years now.

Says Jake of the experience, “This venture not only provides a pleasant outing for us as a group, it keeps us in touch with MC Canada staff members and makes us more keenly aware of our [Christian] Witness workers in the various countries and places in the world. The PrayerNet . . . inspires us to keep them in our minds and prayers. Our volunteer work helps us to better understand the issues they face in their ministry, the efforts they expend in their work and how very important it is for them—and for us—to keep in contact with one another.”

I recently received a letter from one of our prayer supporters, Peter A. Unger of Abbotsford, B.C. He writes, “I wonder what a difference it would make if all earnestly interceded for our [international workers] and brothers and sisters around the world. I believe we would be amazed!”

Anyone wishing to sign up for the MC Canada PrayerNet e-mail can subscribe at mennonitechurch.ca/prayernet, or to receive a printed version in the mail, call me toll-free at 1-866-888-6785 ext. 184.


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