EASTER

Good Friday, April 6

Interchurch Service 7 pm

at Northgate

Easter Sunrise Service, April 8

8:30 am at the Dawson Creek Cemetery

Easter Breakfast 9:00 am at the Church

ADVENT

Advent Series:

"Awesome Deeds We Do Not Expect"

Sunday, Nov. 27 "Learning to Pay Attention"

Service with Potluck meal 12:30 p.m.

Sunday, Dec.4 "Changing the Landscape" 9 a.m.

Sunday, Dec.11 "Transforming Our Sorrow" 9 a.m.

Saturday, Dec. 17 "Reordering Our World" 6 p.m.

Service with Potluck meal

Ten Thousand Villages Sale

Ten Thousand Villages Sale

Friday Nov. 18

3 - 9 pm

Saturday Nov. 19

10 am - 4 pm

Northgate Church

1800 - 109th Ave.

(across from Kitchen Park)

Spring Giving Project

For our Spring giving project this year we collected for sewing machines for Sudan. Since many in our congregation do sew, this is something we wanted to share with others. We raised enough to help two graduates of a sewing/tailoring class in Sudan acquire their own machines.

Easter Services

Sunrise Service 8:30 am at cemetery by Pioneer Village

Breakfast at the church immediately following

Worship Service 10:00 am "Turn to Jesus, Go with the Spirit"

Mennonite Disaster Service

This winter Northgate sponsored Esther Klassen to volunteer for a week with Mennonite Disaster Service. Esther writes of her experience: "During Reading Week, February 21-25, I had the privilege of going down to Lyles, Tennessee with a group of 9 students and 1 staff person from Canadian Mennonite University to work with Mennonite Disaster Service to help repair and rebuild damage suffered from the flooding and tornados in May 2010. Lyles is just under an hour drive from Nashville. We worked on 4 sites in the area. MDS functions by having new short-term volunteers who come in for a week at a time, and long term workers, usually retirees, who head up a work crew for each site to provide instruction and continuity. One site was rebuilding the house on the same foundation of the first house, because the foundation was still good, just too low. That group was working on drywall and mudding all week. A second site was the neighbour house, where the crew built a new deck, cleaned the basement, and then installed furnace duct work. On a third site, they were building a new house from scratch and were at the stage of installing the electrical, building a deck and putting in insulation. A fourth site, which I worked at for the first two days, was in the last stages of building a pump house, which entailed putting cedar siding up and other small finishing touches. One day, four of us were sent out to finish off a different job, putting insulation up under the floor of a trailer, which thankfully only took us one day. We had a bit of time to check out Nashville, go to a church, and go to an NHL game, outside of the busy days of work, from Monday to Friday. It was an excellent experience, building relationships with other CMUers as well as short and long term MDS volunteers and homeowners from the area, while we worked together. I am looking forward to a time when I can volunteer again."

SPECIAL JANUARY EVENT

What light does Biblical teaching shed on human pain and suffering? What resources does the Bible offer us to deal with life’s difficult experiences?

Dan Epp-Tiessen

Professor of Old Testament at Canadian Mennonite University

“Biblical Resources for Healing”

Sessions include:

• Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?
• Living Faithfully in the Midst of Pain and Struggle
• Suffering and Pain Transformed
• Bringing Our Woundedness to the Cross

Dan will include personal sharing about the Biblical passages that have sustained and nurtured him through the experience of being the father of a son who struggled with physical and mental disabilities and then died of cancer at the age of eight.

Points to be discussed include:

• The assurance of God’s presence
• Accepting painful realities
• Being people of hope
• Lamenting our pain
• The healing power of praise
• Gratitude for small blessings

Sat. January 15, 2011

10 – 3, 7 – 8

free admission, lunch provided

Northgate Mennonite Brethren Church

1800 – 109^th Ave.

FOOD FOR THE WORLD

2010 marks the 10th year of cooperation between Northgate and Ravelli Farms in growing grain for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. Thank you to Ross Ravelli for donating his land and labour and equipment and Walter Fritsche for hauling the grain to the elevator. Thanks also to Viterra elevator for processing the donation. Our $1,000 contribution towards seed and fertilizer generated 15 metric tonnes of wheat this year to help feed the world.