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Pray for Unity in the Spirit. Pray that we will all have a similar desire to see God’s will done through and in HMC. Pray against satan’s tricks being used in our midst (e.g. hurts, anger, unforgiveness). Pray that we would keep our eyes on God’s leading and trust Him to sort out the things we don’t understand.
Pastor Jason’s Farewell Sunday
Daily Prayer Request ~ Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Pray the HMC stands fast in the Lord. Pray that our HMC family will be rooted and firm in their faith. Not blown away by every attack, false doctrine or sin that satan brings along.
Bulletin – June 4, 2017
We continue to raise money to pay for our roof repair. As of Friday, May 26, we have raised a total of $49,320.62 towards our ultimate goal of $115,000. Thank you for your ongoing generosity towards this need.
Prayer is still happening! Plan to join in before the service at 9:30 a.m. at the front of the sanctuary.
We have switched to a single 10:00 a.m. Sunday morning service, beginning today and moving forward.
HMC EVENTS
Join us after the service today as we share a meal together in celebration of Pastor Jason and family. Let’s send them off well with a time of fun, remembering, and fellowship.
The Young at Heart are gathering for their final meeting of the season on Thursday, June 8 at 11:00 a.m. at Carrick Camp. Anna Hopkins will be providing a special picnic lunch and Wendy Donaldson will be bringing a therapy dog and sharing about this great branch of St John Ambulance. Visit Nelles in the foyer for a $15 ticket. Anyone needing a ride to the camp should contact Evelyn Howe or Gloria Burrow.
Our annual HMC Budget Meeting will be on Thursday, June 22 at 7:00 p.m. Come for a closer look at our finances, to vote on the new budget, and for an update from Ministry Council.
Blue Jay’s Once again, a bus will be going to Toronto to take in a game this summer. Mark your calendars for July 29. The $50 tickets are available in the foyer on a first come, first served basis.
Summer Slam VBS ‘Love Your Neighbour’ will be August 21-25 from 9 a.m. to noon for children in SK-grade 6. More information to come! If you’re thinking about being a volunteer on the Summer Slam VBS team this year, let Pastor Amos or Marie know and plan to come for a brief meeting after the service on June 25.
Mom’s and Tot’s is looking for someone without small children to take on a leadership role within the ministry: to help organize childcare and coordinate events/ideas (i.e. leading craft days, cooking days, arranging a Bible study), while still including and incorporating the ideas and needs of the mother’s who attend.
PRAYER REQUESTS
Please pray for Pastor Jason & Erika, Shawna & Elijah as they move into a new chapter of life. Thank God for Jason’s educational opportunities. Pray for a ministry placement for Erika. Pray for wisdom as they consider questions of moving or staying, where they will worship as a family, and schooling for the kids.
Our Condolences to Paul & Alison West on the passing of Paul’s aunt, Lois Gwyneth Jones on May 25. Please remember the family in your prayers as they grieve.
Please continue to remember the Pastoral Search Team in your prayers. Pray for wisdom and discernment as they make important decisions regarding the future of HMC.
There is a booklet of prayer requests specific to the needs of HMC. It is being printed in small numbers with simple formatting so your suggestions can be added. We want it to be a dynamic, living, changing document. These booklets are available in the foyer, or by speaking with Karen Schmalz or Brian Austin. Alternatively, if you’d like to receive daily prayer reminders delivered to your email, you can sign up at eepurl.com/cM9ZVj
OTHER EVENTS
Carrick Camp will be kicking off their season on June 4 at 7:00 p.m. Visit carrickcamp.com for a full summer calendar.
OASIS Golden Gateway at Stayner Bible Conference Grounds from Monday June 12 – Friday, June 16. Contact Donna or Ivan Preston for more information or to book your stay (519-585-7514).
MISSIONS CORNER
MISSIONARY OF THE MONTH: Kevin and Michelle Weppler serving with Greater Europe Mission (GEM) in Southern Romania.
Please pray for three of the local girls who were just baptized, that they would stay strong in their faith. Please pray for GEM interns that are with Kevin and Michelle, that they would find their spot to serve HIM.
Kevin and Michelle wish to thank HMC for the continued prayer and financial support.
Missions Opportunity in Romania, September 2017 with GEM. For information check the church website or pick up a brochure under the missions board in the foyer.
Daily Prayer Request ~ Monday, June 5, 2017
Pray intercessory prayer for HMC brothers and sisters, so that we will become encouragers and uplifters – strengthening our HMC family.
Daily Prayer Request~ Friday, June 2, 2017
Pray for our G2G Groups. Pray for the leaders that they be Godly leaders and that the hearts of those in the groups would be fertile soil for the Word of God.
Daily Prayer Request ~ Thursday, June 1, 2017
Pray that we would learn to seek God with ALL of our heart, soul, mind, and strength. Pray for Peace, individually, within out families, within out church, and for the world.
Preparing for Change: Letting Go and Taking Hold
Get honest and embrace the vision God has given you
1. Get honest with God (1:2-4)
2. Receive God’s honesty to you (1:5-11)
3. Be patient through the storm (1:12-2:1)
4. Take hold of the vision God’s given you (2:2-4)
Habakkuk 1:1-2:4New International Version (NIV)
1 The prophecy that Habakkuk the prophet received.
Habakkuk’s Complaint
2 How long, Lord, must I call for help,
but you do not listen?
Or cry out to you, “Violence!”
but you do not save?
3 Why do you make me look at injustice?
Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?
Destruction and violence are before me;
there is strife, and conflict abounds.
4 Therefore the law is paralyzed,
and justice never prevails.
The wicked hem in the righteous,
so that justice is perverted.
but you do not listen?
Or cry out to you, “Violence!”
but you do not save?
3 Why do you make me look at injustice?
Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?
Destruction and violence are before me;
there is strife, and conflict abounds.
4 Therefore the law is paralyzed,
and justice never prevails.
The wicked hem in the righteous,
so that justice is perverted.
The Lord’s Answer
5 “Look at the nations and watch—
and be utterly amazed.
For I am going to do something in your days
that you would not believe,
even if you were told.
6 I am raising up the Babylonians,[a]
that ruthless and impetuous people,
who sweep across the whole earth
to seize dwellings not their own.
7 They are a feared and dreaded people;
they are a law to themselves
and promote their own honor.
8 Their horses are swifter than leopards,
fiercer than wolves at dusk.
Their cavalry gallops headlong;
their horsemen come from afar.
They fly like an eagle swooping to devour;
9 they all come intent on violence.
Their hordes[b] advance like a desert wind
and gather prisoners like sand.
10 They mock kings
and scoff at rulers.
They laugh at all fortified cities;
by building earthen ramps they capture them.
11 Then they sweep past like the wind and go on—
guilty people, whose own strength is their god.”
and be utterly amazed.
For I am going to do something in your days
that you would not believe,
even if you were told.
6 I am raising up the Babylonians,[a]
that ruthless and impetuous people,
who sweep across the whole earth
to seize dwellings not their own.
7 They are a feared and dreaded people;
they are a law to themselves
and promote their own honor.
8 Their horses are swifter than leopards,
fiercer than wolves at dusk.
Their cavalry gallops headlong;
their horsemen come from afar.
They fly like an eagle swooping to devour;
9 they all come intent on violence.
Their hordes[b] advance like a desert wind
and gather prisoners like sand.
10 They mock kings
and scoff at rulers.
They laugh at all fortified cities;
by building earthen ramps they capture them.
11 Then they sweep past like the wind and go on—
guilty people, whose own strength is their god.”
Habakkuk’s Second Complaint
12 Lord, are you not from everlasting?
My God, my Holy One, you[c] will never die.
You, Lord, have appointed them to execute judgment;
you, my Rock, have ordained them to punish.
13 Your eyes are too pure to look on evil;
you cannot tolerate wrongdoing.
Why then do you tolerate the treacherous?
Why are you silent while the wicked
swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
14 You have made people like the fish in the sea,
like the sea creatures that have no ruler.
15 The wicked foe pulls all of them up with hooks,
he catches them in his net,
he gathers them up in his dragnet;
and so he rejoices and is glad.
16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net
and burns incense to his dragnet,
for by his net he lives in luxury
and enjoys the choicest food.
17 Is he to keep on emptying his net,
destroying nations without mercy?
My God, my Holy One, you[c] will never die.
You, Lord, have appointed them to execute judgment;
you, my Rock, have ordained them to punish.
13 Your eyes are too pure to look on evil;
you cannot tolerate wrongdoing.
Why then do you tolerate the treacherous?
Why are you silent while the wicked
swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
14 You have made people like the fish in the sea,
like the sea creatures that have no ruler.
15 The wicked foe pulls all of them up with hooks,
he catches them in his net,
he gathers them up in his dragnet;
and so he rejoices and is glad.
16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net
and burns incense to his dragnet,
for by his net he lives in luxury
and enjoys the choicest food.
17 Is he to keep on emptying his net,
destroying nations without mercy?
2 I will stand at my watch
and station myself on the ramparts;
I will look to see what he will say to me,
and what answer I am to give to this complaint.[d]
and station myself on the ramparts;
I will look to see what he will say to me,
and what answer I am to give to this complaint.[d]
The Lord’s Answer
2 Then the Lord replied:
4 “See, the enemy is puffed up;
his desires are not upright—
but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness[g]—
his desires are not upright—
but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness[g]—
Footnotes:
- Habakkuk 1:6 Or Chaldeans
- Habakkuk 1:9 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
- Habakkuk 1:12 An ancient Hebrew scribal tradition; Masoretic Text we
- Habakkuk 2:1 Or and what to answer when I am rebuked
- Habakkuk 2:2 Or so that whoever reads it
- Habakkuk 2:3 Or Though he linger, wait for him; / he
- Habakkuk 2:4 Or faith
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Daily Prayer Request ~ Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Pray that we would hunger and thirst for the things of God – for righteousness. Pray that God would confront our complacency and somehow stir and intense desire in us to draw closer to Him.
“When I shut up the heavens so there there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land…but if you turn away…then I will uproot.”
—2 Corinthians 7:13-14 & 20
Daily Prayer Request ~ Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Pray for Support Ministries, that God-gifted volunteers would take up the torch. Pray that we, as a church, would be attentive to the needs in our community as well as in our church family.