Covenant service planned for Pentecost

Mennonite Church

British Columbia

Plans are underway for a service of celebration and covenanting for Mennonite Church B.C. congregations on Pentecost Sunday, May 27.

The joint worship service will take place at the MEI gymnasium in Abbotsford beginning at 10 a.m. Lorin Bergen, pastor of Living Hope Christian Fellowship in Surrey, will be the keynote speaker.

All MC B.C. congregations are invited to this special worship service, at which individual churches are invited to symbolically sign the new MC B.C. covenant approved at the annual delegate sessions in February. The covenant agreed upon involves local congregations' mutual relationship to-and commitment within-the MC B.C. body.

"At this conference-wide worship service we will celebrate our unity and commitment to work together as congregations of Mennonite Church B.C.," say the MC B.C. executive members. "It is the Leadership Board's hope that all MC B.C. congregations will close their doors [that Sunday] and encourage all of their membership to attend this event."

Following the service, everyone is invited to stay for a fellowship lunch on the MEU grounds.

The MC B.C. administrative office is arranging for bus transportation for those from areas outside Abbotsford. For more information, call the MC B.C. office at 604-850-6658 or e-mail admin@mcbc.ca.

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Unless otherwise credited, the articles in TheChurches pages were written by: Leona Dueck Penner (MC Canada), Dave Rogalsky (Eastern Canada), Evelyn Rempel Petkau (Manitoba), Karin Fehderau (Saskatchewan), Donita Wiebe-Neufeld (Alberta), and Amy Dueckman (British Columbia). see page 2 for contact information.