“I am the Lord, the one who encourages you.
Why are you afraid of mere humans?
They dry up and die like grass.
I spread out the heavens and laid foundations for the earth.”
(Isaiah 51:12 – 13a, CEV)

Thank God for the ministries of:

New MCC Spiritual Community in Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

and

The Rev. Dr. Brett DeGold ministering with MCC New York, New York, New York, USA

Through the Bible in a year:
Isaiah 51-55
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2051-55&version=NRSVA

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

And after my skin has been destroyed,
yet in my flesh I will see God;
(Job 19:26, NRSVA)

Thank God for the ministries of:

ICM Duque de Caxias, Caxias, Brazil

and

Rev. Steve Robertson ministering with All God’s Children MCC, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

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

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

So then, people ought to regard us as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the secret things of God.
(1 Corinthians 4:1, NIV)

Ash Wednesday

Thank God for the ministries of:

MCC Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

and

Rev. Keith Cornett ministering with Eternal Joy Dayton, Ohio, USA (Ordination Anniversary Mar. 4., 2017)

Through the Bible in a year:
1 Corinthians 3-4
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%203-4&version=NRSVA

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

May the Lord repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”
(Ruth 2:12, NIV)

Thank God for the ministries of:

Mountain Spirit MCC, Asheville, North Carolina, USA

and

Rev. Andrew Holmes ministering with Spirit of Change MCC,Toronto, Canada

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

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

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 important than food, and the body more important than clothes?
(Matthew 6:25, NRSVA)

Thank God for the ministries of:

Travessia Comunidade Espiritual ICM, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

and

Rev. Marilyn Bowens ministering with Imani MCC, Durham, North Carolina, USA (Pastoral Anniverary Mar. 3, 2013)

Through the Bible in a year:
Genesis 36-39
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%2036-39&version=NRSVA

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

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Parent and of the Child and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.’
(Matthew 28:19-20, NRSVA)

Transfiguration Sunday

Thank God for the ministries of:

ICM Cristo Sanador, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico (Church Annivesary month of Mar. 2, 1996)

and

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

Through the Bible in a year:
Matthew 26-28
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2026-28&version=NRSVA

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

To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul;
in you I trust, O my G-d.
Do not let me be put to shame,
nor let my enemies triumph over me.
(Psalm 25:1-2, ESV)

Thank God for the ministries of:

ICM Buenos Aires Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Church Annivesary month of Mar, 1988)

and

Louis Martinage ministering with MCC Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Through the Bible in a year:
Psalm 24-26
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2024-26&version=NRSVA

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

Tell the heavens and the earth to celebrate and sing;
command every mountain to join in the song.
God’s people have suffered, but God has shown mercy
and given them comfort.
(Isaiah 49:13, CEV)Thank God for the ministries of:

MCC Topeka, Topeka, Kansas, USA (Church Annivesary Feb. 28, 1981)

and

Rev. Joseph Livigston ministering with MCC Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Through the Bible in a year:
Isaiah 45-50
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2045-50&version=NRSVA

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

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall
trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or
nakedness or danger or sword?
(Romans 8:35, NRSVA)

Thank God for the ministries of:

Salz der Erde MCC Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

and

Rev. Kelly Durbin ministering with MCC Tampa, Tampa, Florida, USA

Through the Bible in a year:
Job 17-18
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job%2017-18&version=NRSVA

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

I appeal to you, sisters and brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought.
(1 Corinthians 1:10, NIV)

Thank God for the ministries of:

St. John’s MCC, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA (Church Anniversary Feb. 26, 1979)

and

Reverend Rhonda Thorne ministering with MCC of the Blue Ridge, Roanoke, Virginia, USA (Pastoral Anniversary Feb. 26, 2022)

Through the Bible in a year:
1 Corinthians 1-2
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%201-2&version=NRSVA

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