Season of Thanksgiving Let us be grateful for our firefighters and EMS workers

Rend your heart
and not your garments.
Return to the Lord your God,
Who is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and abounding in love,
and Who relents from sending calamity.
(Joel 2:13, NIV)

Thank God for the ministries of:

MCC UCC in the Valley, North Hollywood, California, USA (Church Anniversary near Nov. 12, 1972)

and

Rev. Bill Young ministering with upRising, Austin, Texas, USA

Through the Bible in a year:
Ezra 1-5
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezra%201-5&version=NRSVA

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

Season of Thanksgiving Let us be grateful for our veterans

How can I repay You, O God
for all Your goodness to me?
I will lift up the cup of salvation
and call on Your name.
I will fulfill my vows to You
in the presence of all Your people.
(Psalm 116:12-14, NIV)

Thank God for the ministries of:

Good Hope MCC, Waterfront, South Africa

and

Bishop Pat Bumgardner ministering with MCC New York, New York, New York, USA (Ordination Anniversary near Nov. 11, 1986)

Through the Bible in a year:
Deuteronomy 13-15
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2013-15%5C&version=NRSVA

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

Season of Thanksgiving Let us be grateful for Jesus, God incarnate

Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out God’s love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom God has given us.
(Romans 5:3-5, NIV)

Pentecost 26

Thank God for the ministries of:

ICM Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

and

Rev. Sharon Henry iministering with Reflection MCC, Folsom, California, USA

Through the Bible in a year:
Acts 15-16
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2015-16&version=NRSVA

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

Season of Thanksgiving Let us be grateful for our homes

Blessed are all who fear the Eternal,
who walk in G-d’s ways.
(Psalm 128:1, NIV)

Thank God for the ministries of:

Cornerstone MCC, Mobile, Alabama, USA

and

Rev. Charley Garrison iministering with Central Texas MCC, Waco, Texas, USA (Pastoral Anniversary month of November, 1999)

Through the Bible in a year:
Psalm 128-130
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%20128-130&version=NRSVA

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

Season of Thanksgiving Let us be grateful for the atom

‘As for the promise which I made you when you came out of Egypt,
My Spirit is abiding in your midst; do not fear!’
(Haggai 2:5, NASB)

Thank God for the ministries of:

MCC Albuquerque, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

and

Rev. Andrew Holmes ministering with Spirit of Change MCC, Toronto, Canada (Ordination Anniversary month of November, 2018)

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

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

Season of Thanksgiving Let us be grateful for poets and poetry

When you tell God you’ll do something, do it–now.
God takes no pleasure in foolish gabble. Vow it, then do it.
Far better not to vow in the first place than to vow and not pay up.
(Ecclesiastes 5:4-5, MSG)

Thank God for the ministries of:

MCC spiritual community, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

and

Rev. Paully Adams ministering with St. John’s MCC, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

Through the Bible in a year:
Ecclesiastes 5-6
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%205-6&version=NRSVA

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

Today we dedicate this PrayerLink to Rev. Gary Metzenbacher. May God grant peace to all who knew him. Well done thou good and faithful servant.

Season of Thanksgiving Let us be grateful for our entertainers

But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect,
(1 Peter 3:15, NIV)

Thank God for the ministries of:

CRAVE MCC, Paddington, Australia (Church anniversary, near Nov. 6, 2008)

and

Rev. (Elder) Ken Martin ministering with Sanctuary, Austin, Texas, USA

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

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

Today we dedicate this PrayerLink to Rev. Gary Metzenbacher. May God grant peace to all who knew him. Well done thou good and faithful servant.

Season of Thanksgiving Let us be grateful for elections

Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ.
(Romans 10:17, NIV)

Thank God for the ministries of:

Mountain Spirit MCC, Asheville, North Carolina, USA

and

Dr Denise Powell ministering with MCC Brisbane, Fortitude Valley, Australia

Through the Bible in a year:
2 Chronicles 33-36
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Chronicles%20%2033-36&version=NRSVA

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

Today we dedication this PrayerLink to Rev. Gary Metzenbacher. May God grant peace to all who knew him. Well done thou good and faithful servant.

Season of Thanksgiving Let us be grateful for Nature

GOD defends the cause of the orphan and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving them food and clothing..
(Deuteronomy 10:18, NIV)

Thank God for the ministries of:

MCC of the Spirit, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA (Church anniversary month of November, 1980)

and

Rev. Jakob Hero-Shaw ministering with MCC Tampa, Tampa, Florida, USA (Pastoral Anniversary Nov. 1, 2015)

Through the Bible in a year:
Deuteronomy 10-12
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2010-12&version=NRSVA

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

Season of Thanksgiving Let us be grateful for the Bible

Those who know your name will trust in you,
for you, Oh God, have never forsaken those who seek you.
(Psalm 9:10, NIV)

Pentecost 25

Thank God for the ministries of:

Travessia Comunidade Espiritual ICM, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

and

Bishop Durrell Watkins ministering with Sunshine Cathedral MCC, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA (Pastoral Anniversary Nov. 3, 2007)

Through the Bible in a year:
Acts 13-14
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2013-14&version=NRSVA

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