[amc] A Postcard and a Prayer from Mennonite Women USA
- From: Austin Mennonite <austinmennonite@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Austin Mennonite Church <amc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:32:24 -0600
I always appreciate the prayer with this newsletter.
Lee Lever, Pastor
Austin Mennonite Church
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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:30:51 -0500
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Subject: A Postcard and a Prayer from Mennonite Women USA
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*January**2012* [image: Logo]
Mennonite Women USA
A Postcard and a Prayer
New Year's Blessing
"I received this New Year's Blessing from my friend, Pastor Pamela Short,
Archbold, OH. It is printed here with her permission. Happy New Year to
all." Ruth Lapp Gueingerich
"See, I am making all things New!"
Revelation 21:5
May our GOD who makes new evenings and new dawns
Light your way with clear tenderness and gentle comfort
May our GOD who makes new cells and new life
Fill your body with fresh strength and generous healing
May our GOD who makes new journeys and new horizons
Guard your path with ready angels and faithful friends
May our GOD who makes new listeners and new notes
Quicken your voice with joyful honor and grateful song
May our GOD who makes new work and new rest
Set your days with honorable labor and creative play
May our GOD who makes new mercies and new glory
Surprise your spirit with radical forgiveness
and steadfast love
May our GOD who makes new stories
and new imaginations
Meet your eyes with honest praise and loving hope
Here's to our GOD who makes all things new!
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girlhood to a leader of Mennonite Church USA, and Jayne Byler reflects on
her long tenure as a senior pastor.
This issue also features an article by Mary C. Roth, Goshen College (Ind.)
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*Pacific Northwest January 20-21, 2012*
"Member Care" - co-ed for women and men
Portland Mennonite Church, Portland, Oregon
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in remembrance of, significant people in their lives. We recognize that
each gift honors or remembers a relationship.
Gifts given by:
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*Lori Klassen in memory of Elizabeth Mellinger-Bair.*
*Pam Risser in memory of Vera Kuhns.*
*Winifred Wall in memory of Ruth Mumaw.*
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* Kitchen Table
**by Lorraine Eby[image: Lorraine]*
*Franklin Conference Sister Care Coordinator*
*Burning Bush, January 2012*
The Christmas decorations are now packed away, the cookies have
disappeared, and the gifts have all been given. If statistics are valid,
the majority of gifts purchased or received this year were some form of an
electronic devise. We are a pleasure seeking society and electronics
promise us blissful pleasure and convenience.
I have a few of these techy things and enjoy the pleasure they can bring. I
became the owner of a laptop about a year ago, a retirement gift to myself,
and our children gifted us with a router last Christmas so I have internet
access at any place in the house. I can research a recipe in the kitchen,
check email while watching TV, and work on *The Kitchen Table* article in
my comfortable recliner. The laptop really became my best friend this
summer during my recovery from a leg fracture while I was homebound for two
months.
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* From The Mennonite
**A discerning woman: *Carol Roth's Mennonite-Choctaw upbringing has
equipped her to build bridges within the church.*
by Patricia Burdette*
*The Mennonite, January 2012*
"Growing up in a missionary home and being a PK (preacher's kid) have made
me more sensitive to building relationships," says Carol Roth, Choctaw, of
Clinton, Miss. Her infectious smile and bright brown eyes invite me into
the conversation."
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* An Epiphany Prayer
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*[image: Melissa]An Epiphany Prayer*
*by Melissa Friesen, Bluffton, Ohio*
*Melissa Friesen is Associate Professor of Theatre and Communication at
Bluffton University and an active member of First Mennonite Church in
Bluffton, Ohio.*
Ever-present God,
As the new year begins,
we may find the radical, radiant Christmas glow receding behind us.
Holiday decorations have been returned to storage,
visitors have found their way home,
life goes on - normal.
In our forward momentum, let us not leave behind the Christmas miracle.
Like wise men offering treasure to the infant Savior,
let us, too, give our best gifts - peace, compassion, love -
our celebratory response to the greatest gift that is Jesus Christ.
Empower us to nurture these gifts in ourselves and in others,
so that your healing and hope flow through us to the world.
Inspire us, O God, with Epiphany.
Amen.
*A Postcard and a Prayer is compiled by Mennonite Women USA staff Ruth
Lapp Guengerich, Rhoda Keener, Patricia Burdette, Berni Kaufman and Lois
Loflin.*
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