Today’s PrayerLink is dedicated to Chuck Russell-Coons. His loving gentle spirit continues in us. May God grant him peace and rest.

“Then the Monarch said to the servants, ‘The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come. Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’ So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.
(Matthew 22:8-10, NIV)

Thank God for the ministries of:

Eternal Joy MCC, Dayton, Ohio, USA (Church Anniversary December 2, 1980)

and

Ken Martin ministering with Sanctuary in the Woods, Austin, Texas, USA

Through the Bible in a year:
Deuteronomy 23-25
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2023-25&version=NRSVA

Dale Burkholder
MCC Windsor, Ontario, Canada
www.laylinkmcc.com

A Daily Affirmation (from POZ magazine, February/March 2001)

I am grateful today to be alive.
Let me live each moment of this day attentively,
consciously and intentionally, with an open mind
and an open heart.
This day let my hopes for healing of mind, body
and spirit become visible in my life.

I am grateful for my body, for each breath I draw,
for the blood in my veins, for the cells of which I
am composed.
May I treasure this body with every act of eating,
breathing, sleeping, feeling, lovemaking,
exercising, and with every pill I ingest.

I am grateful for the people I know and have
known, friends and lovers living and dead, those
I love and see, and those I love and no longer
see; for love that is stronger than death and for
love that never ends.

Each day help me to connect with the diversity of
human creation, young and old, positive and
negative, every race, gender and orientation.
Keep me passionate and engaged in creating a
world of justice, free from prejudice and poverty,
where everyone is valued, loved and free.

May my awareness of mortality inspire me to live
abundantly, here and now.
May I live in expectation of a cure for HIV in my
lifetime.

Let my life be a prayer, my dreams a reality.
-J.M.

World aids Day

Thank God for the ministries of:

The more than 21.8 million lives cut short by aids.
The more than 36.1 million people who are living with aids/hiv.
The caregivers, family, and frieds of people with aids/hiv.
The Doctors and nurses caring for people with aids/hiv.
The researchers looking for a cure.
For all us as we find hope on this day.

Through the Bible in a year:
Acts 21-22
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2021-22&version=NRSVA

Dale Burkholder
MCC Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Today’s PrayerLink is dedicated to Chuck Russell-Coons. His loving gentle spirit continues in us. May God grant him peace and rest.

O G-d, you have searched me
and you know me.

You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
(Psalm 139:1-2, NIV)Thank God for the ministries of:

Milwaukee MCC, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA (Church Anniversary November 30, 1971)

and

Reverend Dwayne Morgan ministering with Inclusive Community Church, Bournemouth, England, UK (Pastoral Anniversary November 30, 2003)

Through the Bible in a year:
Psalm 137-139
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20137-139&version=NRSVA

Dale Burkholder
MCC Windsor, Ontario, Canada
www.laylinkmcc.com

But for you who revere my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.
(Malachi 4:2, NRSVA)

Thank God for the ministries of:

MCC of Our Redeemer, Augusta, Georgia, USA (Church Anniversary November 29, 1987)

and

Rev Margarita Rodriguez ministering with Sunshine Cathedral MCC, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

Through the Bible in a year:
Malachi
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Malachi%201-4&version=NRSVA

Dale Burkholder
MCC Windsor, Ontario, Canada
www.laylinkmcc.com

\Season of Thanksgiving Let us be grateful for Our Great God!

I will praise God’s name in song
and glorify God with thanksgiving.
(Psalm 69:30, NIV)

Happy Thanksgiving to our USA members

Thank God for the ministries of:

Angels of Hope MCC, Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA (Church Anniversary November30, 1986)

and

Rev Marianne McPherson ministering with MCC UCC in the Valley, North Hollywood, California, USA

Through the Bible in a year:
Ecclesiastes 11-12
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%2011-12&version=NRSVA

Dale Burkholder
MCC Windsor, Ontario, Canada
www.laylinkmcc.com

Season of Thanksgiving Let us be grateful for the modern conveniences

Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
(1 John 3:18, NIV)

Anniversary of the assassination of Harvey Milk

Thank God for the ministries of:

Neema MCC, Mtito Andei, Kena

and

Rev. Wendy Hamilton ministering with MCC Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Through the Bible in a year:
1 John 1-3
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20John%201-3&version=NRSVA

Dale Burkholder
MCC Windsor, Ontario, Canada
www.laylinkmcc.com

Season of Thanksgiving Let us be grateful for the Planet Earth

And the ransomed of the Eternal shall return,
and come to Zion with singing;
everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;
they shall obtain joy and gladness,
and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
(Isaiah 35:10, NRSVA)

Thank God for the ministries of:

ICM Maringà, Maringa, Brazil

and

Rev. Tony Viglione ministering with Church of Our Savior MCC, Boynton Beach, Florida, USA

Through the Bible in a year:
Nehemiah 1-4
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Nehemiah%201-4&version=NRSVA

Dale Burkholder
MCC Windsor, Ontario, Canada
www.laylinkmcc.com

Season of Thanksgiving Let us be grateful for Energy

You, then, why do you judge your siblings? Or why do you look down on another? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat. It is written:
” ‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord,
‘every knee will bow before me;
every tongue will confess to God.’ “
So then, each of us will give an account of ourself to God.
(Romans 14:10-12, CEB)

Thank God for the ministries of:

Reflection MCC, Folsom, California, USA

and

James Hartman ministering with MCC of Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Through the Bible in a year:
Deuteronomy 20-22
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2020-22&version=NRSVA

Dale Burkholder
MCC Windsor, Ontario, Canada
www.laylinkmcc.com

Season of Thanksgiving Let us be grateful for the Holy Spirit, God ever present

Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers.
Be shepherds of the church of God, which God bought with Jesus’ own blood.
(Acts 20:28, NIV)

Reign of Christ Sunday, Last Sunday of Pentecost

Thank God for the ministries of:

Diaconia Cristiana en la Diversidad ICM, Departamento de Montevideo, Uruguay

and

Rev. Mark Harris ministering with Vision of Hope MCC, Mountville, Pennsylvania, USA

Through the Bible in a year:
Acts 19-20
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2019-20&version=NRSVA

Dale Burkholder
MCC Windsor, Ontario, Canada
www.laylinkmcc.com

Season of Thanksgiving Let us be grateful for doctors and surgeons

Praise the Lord, all you servants of the Lord
who minister by night in the house of the Lord.
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the Lord.
May the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth,
bless you from Zion.
(Psalm 134, NIV)

Thank God for the ministries of:

Imani MCC, Durham, North Carolina, USA (Church Anniversary Nov. 23, 1997)

and

Rev. Kai Millar ministering with Northern Lights MCC, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK

Through the Bible in a year:
Psalm 134-136
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20134-136&version=NRSVA

Dale Burkholder
MCC Windsor, Ontario, Canada
www.laylinkmcc.com