Sunday, January 8, 2012
DANFORTH MENNONITE CHURCH
416-422-2406
Pastor: Tim Reimer
Elders: Dalton Jantzi, Erma Martin
Continuing the ministry of the Danforth (1909), Morningside (1950)
and Warden (2009) congregations
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
10:00 am Adult Sunday School. John Howard Yoder – Pacifism in the First Reformation.
11:00 am Worship Service
Worship Leader: Linda Donohoe
Song Leader: Marg Beer
Piano: Mary Groh
Speaker: Tim Reimer
Theme: Strangers No More
Scripture: Ephesians 2:11-22
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Sunday, January 15, 2012
10:00 am Adult Sunday School – John Howard Yoder- Pacifism is the Second Reformation
11:00 am Worship Service
Worship Leader: Dalton Jantzi
Song Leader: Kathy Wert
Piano: Roger Horst
Speaker: Mary Groh
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BIRTHDAYS
January 8 Becky Bowman January 11 Linda Lumley
ANNOUNCEMENTS
On Wed. Jan. 11 at 10:00 am there will be a meeting at the church to discuss a vision for outreach, DMC style. Several other items, including Vacation Bible Camp, will also be discussed. Everyone is welcome to participate. Please let Linda Donohoe or Dalton know if you will be there.
We may be small, but we are mighty!!! Thank you so much for your continuing support of both our food drive and the mitten tree project. Once again you demonstrated that individuals and small groups can make a difference. Krista, Dave, Dylan and Sadie delivered to Woodbine Heights Baptist Church approx. 100 lbs. of dry goods that you donated. As well, Ruth Ewert picked up bags that contained 41 pairs of gloves/mitts, 64 hats, 10 scarves, 16 pairs of socks and 1 blanket. These will be distributed by the Evergreen Centre to street youth and their children. Thanks for caring.
CHILDREN’S SUNDAY SCHOOL- We have a few spots left to teach Children’s Sunday School during Church for the new year. A long term commitment is not required. We are looking for anyone who has a willingness to serve in this area. There is a sign up sheet on the bulletin board. Thanks, Jennifer Hayward.
Monday, January 9, 7:30 pm. Women’s group will meet at LaVerna Reimer’s home, 31 Clapperton Ave. All women welcome for a time of fellowship.
Friday, January 13, at 6:40 pm Out of the Cold program at Eastminster Church. 310 Danforth Ave. come with your voices and instruments to provide music for the homeless while they eat their dinner. Speak with Dalton if you have any questions.
Saturday, January 14, 9:00 am. Men’s Breakfast. All males welcome.
We will be doing the evening program at SCOC on Sunday Jan.15th. Everyone is welcome to join the Danforth Tabernacle Choir.
Our Annual General Meeting will be held Jan. 29, 2012 after the morning service and a finger-food potluck lunch. Please reserve the first half of that afternoon for this important business meeting.
As always, REPORTS are due from the various standing committees. To have the amalgamated report in everyone’s hands by Sunday Jan. 22, Carolyn needs to have an electronic copy (ie a Word document) in her in-box by Sunday Jan. 15th.
Congratulations to the committee chair who already submitted her report before fleeing Toronto’s wintry weather!
One agenda item for this meeting will be some discussion of Vacation Bible Camp for 2012.
Although “new business from the floor” will be welcome, it would help if you tell Mike DeHaan about it earlier so we can all be prepared to discuss it.
NOTE: DMC’s Annual General Meeting is open to anyone who attends here, regardless of formal membership status. As always, first-time guests are especially welcome to the potluck.
Adult Sunday School Schedule - 10:00 am.
January 22 – JHY – The Quaker Experience
January 29 – JHY – Reinhold Niebuhr’s Realistic Critique
Council is pleased to announce that Pastor “Ash” of the Freedom Gospel congregation will be renting the office on the main floor. In the past, that room has seen service as the Outreach Worker’s office, a Sunday School room, the library, storage closets, and sometimes a bedroom for visiting TOOLS groups. However, for at least the next year it will be Pastor Ash’s office and “off limits” to the Danforth congregation except for whatever materials we did not manage to store elsewhere.
Council also thanks Vic Guerin and Marg Beer for serving on the liaison committee for the rental arrangements with the Freedom Gospel congregation. If you’re wondering where the library materials went, they know! Danforth gains an increase in rental income, while Pastor Ash obtains a much improved office space. We look forward to the continued growth and success of our sister congregation.
WIDER CHURCH ANNOUNCEMENTS
“Celebrating Mennonite Literature”: Rudy Wiebe, twice recipient of the Governor General’s Award for fiction, is the first writer to appear in Conrad Grebel’s nine-week series on Mennonite literature. Wednesday, January 11, 7:00 pm, Conrad Grebel University College Chapel, 140 Westmount Rd. N, Waterloo. Everyone is welcome. grebel.uwaterloo.ca/mennolit
Faith Communities Meeting in Toronto to discuss Occupy Movement. On January 12, at 7 pm at the Church of the Holy Trinity will be a meeting for faith communities to discuss issues that need questioning and structures that need challenging. The Church of the Holy Trinity is located next to the Eaton Centre.
Tuesday, January 19, 7:00pm in the Conrad Grebel Chapel, 140 Westmount Rd. N, Waterloo. Rediscovering the Sacred Through Laughter. This workshop presentation is an equipping session for local churches, worship committees, liturgists, preachers, etc. The goal is to help worship planners and congregations think about the use of drama in worship, give some suggestions of both material and technique and perhaps even a little practice. $25. Space limited to 50 participants. For more information and to register contact infocguc@uwaterloo.ca or 519-885-0220 x24264 Payment taken at the door only. Receipts given.