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office@hanovermissionary.comJohn 20:31 New International Version (NIV)
31 But these are written that you may believe[a] that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
Footnotes:
John 20:31 Or may continue to believe
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Young at Heart will gather again on Thursday, May 9 at 11:00 a.m. Pete & Leah Humphreys will be sharing about their Still Waters ministry. Tickets for the hot luncheon will be available for $17 in the foyer today.
We are hosting a screening of Over 18, on Friday, May 10 at 7:00 p.m. Over 18 is a documentary about pornography and its addictive effects on children and youth. Our hope in hosting this screening is to open up the conversation around pornography addiction in our community and families. We also want to equip people with tools and resources to both protect their kids from harmful sexual content online as well as help those struggling with pornography addiction themselves.
The next Ladies Social will be on Tuesday, May 14 at 7:00 p.m. Cindy King, a manager at Paramed Services will be sharing about what services are available through Paramed. Plan to come out for this informative evening.
Our senior youth will be attending Phoenix Fest, a weekend festival in Paris, ON on May 17-20. Please let Pastor Amos know if you (or your youth) are planning to attend.
Men in Action Work Bee – join in on Saturday, May 18 at 7:30 a.m. to help with jobs around our facility.
We are celebrating our May Building Connections Sunday with High Tea, on May 19 following the service. Bring along some pastries, finger sandwiches, fresh fruit, etc. to share!
We are making small changes to help HMC be a little bit greener. We have purchased new dishes in an effort to reduce our constant use of paper and styrofoam. Join the team and help make this an easy transition! We need volunteers to help with the dishes during our Building Connection Sundays and other church family food events. Please consider signing up to help! See the podium in the foyer and let us know what month you’re available. Events occur approximately once a month.
Our Condolences to Pastor Amos & Faith Shelley on the passing of Faith’s grandmother, June, on Wednesday, April 24. Please pray for the family as they grieve.
Please pray for Dianne Dippel who continues to face health concerns.
We are hiring a new part-time pastor. Please be praying for the team responsible for going through applications. Pray for wisdom and discernment as they listen to God’s direction.
Please join with us every Monday to pray. Set your alarms to 5:14 a.m. or p.m. each Monday and let’s come together to pray for our church, our vision, and our leadership.
Join the HMC Bible Book Club! Find motivation to do daily devotions, as well as opportunity to contribute to discussions about what you’re currently reading, and what has challenged you. Please consider joining! Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/HMCBBC/ to join.
A very Happy Birthday to Ruth Charlton who is celebrating her 70th on Saturday, May 4th!
The annual YFC Fish Fry Fundraiser is this Wednesday, May 1. Please stop by the table in the foyer to purchase tickets.
A Celebration of Life is being held for Jim Hinds on Sunday, May 5 at 2:00 p.m. at Hope Community Church.
Hike for Hospice will be held on Sunday, May 5th to support and maintain Chapman House in Owen Sound. If you’d like to sponsor a participant, please connect with Bill & Carolyn Pearson, Evelyn Howe, Brenda Kaufman, Lyndsay McGregor, or Charlotte Spitzig.
Our office will be closed tomorrow for the Easter holiday.
Come out on Wednesday, April 24 from 5:30-7:00 for the Roots Up! Pizza & Pop Family Finale. Come for games, supper, arts & crafts, vision casting, & celebration. Doors open at 5:30. Meal will be served at 5:45 pm. (The UStore will be open, so kids, bring along your UBUCKS!)
Our senior youth will be attending Phoenix Fest, a weekend festival in Paris, ON on May 17-20. Please let Pastor Amos know if you (or your youth) and planning to attend before April 23.
Young at Heart will gather again on Thursday, May 9 at 11:00 a.m. Pete & Leah Humphreys will be sharing about their Still Waters ministry. Tickets for the hot luncheon will be available for $17 beginning on April 28.
We are making small changes to help HMC be a little bit greener. We have purchased new dishes in an effort to reduce our constant use of paper and styrofoam. Join the team and help make this an easy transition! We need volunteers to help with the dishes during our Building Connection Sundays and other church family food events. Please consider signing up to help! See the podium in the foyer and let us know what month you’re available. Events occur approximately once a month.
We are hiring a new part-time pastor. Please be praying for the team responsible for going through applications. Pray for wisdom and discernment as they listen to God’s direction.
Please join with us every Monday to pray. Set your alarms to 5:14 a.m. or p.m. each Monday and let’s come together to pray for our church, our vision, and our leadership
Join the HMC Bible Book Club! Find motivation to do daily devotions, as well as opportunity to contribute to discussions about what you’re currently reading, and what has challenged you. Please consider joining! Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/HMCBBC/ to join.
A Lawson’s Christian Supplies Pop-Up Store is coming to Hanover! As part of a fundraiser for the Salvation Army’s Projects in Mozambique, Lawson’s will be open from 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 27 at The Salvation Army 581 12th Street. Light refreshments will also be available for a free will donation.
Hike for Hospice will be held on Sunday, May 5th to support and maintain Chapman House in Owen Sound. If you’d like to sponsor a participant, please connect with Bill & Carolyn Pearson, Evelyn Howe, Brenda Kaufman, Lyndsay McGregor, or Charlotte Spitzig.
Men, are you willing to give a weekend to help out with some jobs at our EMC camp? Mishewah needs your skills! We hope to send a crew for the weekend of June 7-10. Please connect with Alan McDougall or Gord Cox to express your interest or for more information.
Learn about Camp Mishewah by visiting campwishewah.ca
Our office will be closed on Friday, April 19 and Monday, April 22 for the Easter holiday.
Due to the office being closed on Friday, Bulletin Folding with Pastor Dave has been moved to Thursday at 1:00 p.m.
Join us for a Good Friday Communion Service on Friday, April 19 at 10:00 a.m.
Celebrate with us on Easter morning over a free continental breakfast that will be served in the foyer from 9-10 a.m. on Sunday, April 21. Then stay and enjoy a celebratory service as we rejoice in our risen Saviour!
Come out on Wednesday, April 24 from 5:30-7:00 for the Roots Up! Pizza & Pop Family Finale. Come for games, supper, arts & crafts, vision casting, & celebration. Doors open at 5:30. Meal will be served at 5:45 pm. (The UStore will be open, so kids, bring along your UBUCKS!)
A Lawson’s Christian Supplies Pop-Up Store is coming to Hanover! As part of a fundraiser for the Salvation Army’s Projects in Mozambique, Lawson’s will be open from 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 27 at The Salvation Army 581 12th Street. Light refreshments will also be available for a free will donation.
We are making small changes to help HMC be a little bit greener. We have purchased new dishes in an effort to reduce our constant use of paper and styrofoam. Join the team and help make this an easy transition! We need volunteers to help with the dishes during our Building Connection Sundays and other church family food events. Please consider signing up to help! See the podium in the foyer and let us know what month you’re available. Events occur approximately once a month.
We are hiring a new part-time pastor. Please be praying for the team responsible for going through applications. Pray for wisdom and discernment as they listen to God’s direction.
Lyness Wark, who was a pillar of the HMC congregation until he and his wife moved to Providence Bay when they retired, passed away on Wednesday, April 10. Please remember the family in your prayers as they grieve.
Please join with us every Monday to pray. Set your alarms to 5:14 a.m. or p.m. each Monday and let’s come together to pray for our church, our vision, and our leadership.
Join the HMC Bible Book Club! Find motivation to do daily devotions, as well as opportunity to contribute to discussions about what you’re currently reading, and what has challenged you. Please consider joining! Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/HMCBBC/ to join.
Key Idea:
Don’t worry, be still. (Ps 46:10)
Premise: Worry feeds our sense of self-reliance, which robs us of being able to trust God instead for our needs.
Don’t let your needs consume you. (vs 25)
Worry is a conscious choice. (26-27, Lk 12:26)
Our pursuits can’t compare to God’s provision. (28-32)
Be still and know that He is God. (34, Lk 12:32-34)
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
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17-19 In Jerusalem, our friends, glad to see us, received us with open arms. The first thing next morning, we took Paul to see James. All the church leaders were there. After a time of greeting and small talk, Paul told the story, detail by detail, of what God had done among the non-Jewish people through his ministry. They listened with delight and gave God the glory.
20-21 They had a story to tell, too: “And just look at what’s been happening here—thousands upon thousands of God-fearing Jews have become believers in Jesus! But there’s also a problem because they are more zealous than ever in observing the laws of Moses. They’ve been told that you advise believing Jews who live surrounded by unbelieving outsiders to go light on Moses, telling them that they don’t need to circumcise their children or keep up the old traditions. This isn’t sitting at all well with them.
22-24 “We’re worried about what will happen when they discover you’re in town. There’s bound to be trouble. So here is what we want you to do: There are four men from our company who have taken a vow involving ritual purification, but have no money to pay the expenses. Join these men in their vows and pay their expenses. Then it will become obvious to everyone that there is nothing to the rumors going around about you and that you are in fact scrupulous in your reverence for the laws of Moses.
25 “In asking you to do this, we’re not going back on our agreement regarding non-Jews who have become believers. We continue to hold fast to what we wrote in that letter, namely, to be careful not to get involved in activities connected with idols; to avoid serving food offensive to Jewish Christians; to guard the morality of sex and marriage.”
26 So Paul did it—took the men, joined them in their vows, and paid their way. The next day he went to the Temple to make it official and stay there until the proper sacrifices had been offered and completed for each of them.
23 1-3 Paul surveyed the members of the council with a steady gaze, and then said his piece: “Friends, I’ve lived with a clear conscience before God all my life, up to this very moment.” That set the Chief Priest Ananias off. He ordered his aides to slap Paul in the face. Paul shot back, “God will slap you down! What a fake you are! You sit there and judge me by the Law and then break the Law by ordering me slapped around!”
4 The aides were scandalized: “How dare you talk to God’s Chief Priest like that!”
5 Paul acted surprised. “How was I to know he was Chief Priest? He doesn’t act like a Chief Priest. You’re right, the Scripture does say, ‘Don’t speak abusively to a ruler of the people.’ Sorry.”
6 Paul, knowing some of the council was made up of Sadducees and others of Pharisees and how they hated each other, decided to exploit their antagonism: “Friends, I am a stalwart Pharisee from a long line of Pharisees. It’s because of my Pharisee convictions—the hope and resurrection of the dead—that I’ve been hauled into this court.”
7-9 The moment he said this, the council split right down the middle, Pharisees and Sadducees going at each other in heated argument. Sadducees have nothing to do with a resurrection or angels or even a spirit. If they can’t see it, they don’t believe it. Pharisees believe it all. And so a huge and noisy quarrel broke out. Then some of the religion scholars on the Pharisee side shouted down the others: “We don’t find anything wrong with this man! And what if a spirit has spoken to him? Or maybe an angel? What if it turns out we’re fighting against God?”
10 That was fuel on the fire. The quarrel flamed up and became so violent the captain was afraid they would tear Paul apart, limb from limb. He ordered the soldiers to get him out of there and escort him back to the safety of the barracks.
Ladies Social invites you to start thinking about spring. Come out on Tuesday, April 9 at 7:00 p.m. and Anne Bartlett will help you plan your gardening projects.
Young at Heart will gather on Thursday, April 11 at 11:00 a.m. Jen Magwood from the Hanover Co-op will be sharing about container gardening. Tickets for the $17 luncheon are available in the foyer this week.
Join us for a Good Friday Service on Friday, April 19 at 10:00 a.m.
Want to enjoy Easter morning together over a hot breakfast on Sunday, April 21? Connect with the Mission Planning Team about helping. This will only work if they get enough volunteers.
Community Lenten Lunches & Services are being hosted on Wednesdays at 12 noon at St. Matthews Lutheran Church until April 10. Everyone is welcome. A freewill offering will be collected.
Cyclone Idai: Please pray for the millions affected by the devastation in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Malawi, and for those bringing relief efforts to the area. To give, go to to emcc.ca/engage/give/support-a-global-project (select Relief and Development Project #104)
Our Warming Centre had a great first season! Thank you to the team who gave of their time each week to welcome and bless the people who attended. And thank you to everyone who donated soup, food for the pantry, and/or knitted goods. Your helpful generosity make a great impact on our community!
Please pray for Orval Kaufman who has developed a blood clot.
Please pray for Cindy Dietz, Ab Boogerman, and Tom Eastman who are all recovering from recent surgeries.
Please pray for the Beals family who left on March 28 for an eleven day short-term mission trip to Puerto Maldonado, Peru. Please pray for travelling mercies and that their work among the children as they run a VBS program will shine the light of Jesus into many families.
We are hiring a new part-time pastor. Please be praying for the team responsible for going through applications. Pray for wisdom and discernment as they listen to God’s direction.
Please join with us every Monday to pray. Set your alarms to 5:14 a.m. or p.m. each Monday and let’s come together to pray for our church, our vision, and our leadership.
Join the HMC Bible Book Club! Find motivation to do daily devotions, as well as opportunity to contribute to discussions about what you’re currently reading, and what has challenged you. Please consider joining! Go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/HMCBBC/ to join.
Rocky Mountain College is offering a FREE introduction to the Bible course. The BBL100 course is designed to help you explore your faith more and understand the background and inspiration of the Bible. A new session will begin on Tuesday, April 2.
Sign up by going to rockymountaincollege.ca. Select ‘Courses’ ➙ ‘Introduction to the Bible for FREE’.
If you would like to be baptized as part of our Easter Sunday service, please connect with a pastor.
Key Idea: We invest our lives with eternity in focus.
Premise: There is a direct relationship between what we invest our resources on, and who God is to us.
19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy,[a] your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eyes are unhealthy,[b] your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!
24 “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
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