Jeff Anderson, Superintendent

• Praise for a summer of time in the office and restoration of some more regularized and good work rhythms.
• Praise for continued development of relationships with the Avenue Community Church, a young, multi-ethnic church in the Toronto area that is looking to affiliate with the Covenant.
• Praise for our Summer Ministry Team (yeah, I know it's been said elsewhere but I am just very thankful for this group)
• Prayer for the financial base necessary to enact the Leadership Board decision to pursue one new church plant per year during this present season of ministry.
• Prayer (in advance) for a Church Planting Team and a Global Initiatives Team that will meet this November to sharpen our focus and strategy in these key ministry areas.

A picture of our full time staff hard at work at the Annual Meeting in Colorado. Believe me, it's hard work getting Jeff to wear a tie! 

Julia Stein, Director of Ministry Support

• Praise God for warm days in Winnipeg!
• Praise him for his faithfulness in providing an excellent Summer Ministry Team. I am grateful for the privilege of directing this team.
• Praise God that I've made it through the first year of a new job in a new place. Praise him for the opportunities to meet many of you and preach in our churches.
• Praise God for the donors he has provided the ECCC and pray that he continues to provide generously for our churches, ministries, and conference.
• Pray for me next week as I am speaking at Covenant Bay Bible Camp. Pray that the high school students come to know Jesus better at camp. 
• Pray for our continued relationship with Palestinian Christians as I hope to partner with Bethlehem Bible College as a volunteer at their Christ at the Checkpoint conference in March.
• Pray for a successful relaunch of The Messenger this month. (Contributions are due next week. See below for more information.)  

Gerald Froese, Church Vitality 

• Judi and I are excited to have found a place to call home in Edmonton for September.
• Our ECC Vitality Team, that I am a part of  is working on providing an effective resource manual for churches in transitions. Pray that we will create a manual that will help churches invite a new Senior Pastor to a healthy, functional, spiritually renewed faith community! We write August 29-31 in Kansas.
• Pray for wisdom to help churches in the Vitality pathway -that each church may continue to take concrete steps toward growing healthy and missional.

ECCC NEWSLETTER ~ We need YOU!

In an effort to keep our community of churches connected and informed about the various ministries and people of the ECCC, we are hoping to begin (again) an ECCC newsletter. In the past The Messenger was the primary way of communicating the goings on around the Canada Covenant Church.  

To be cost effective and environmentally friendly, we won't be sending out paper copies, but will post the newsletter online and email out instead.*

For our trial run we would love to gather submissions on the theme: Fellowship of Believers. This is one of the Covenant Affirmations and was the focus of this year's ECC Annual Meeting.  

We welcome your stories, articles, poetry, photographs and anything else you can come up with!

Written pieces must be no more than 500 words. Articles or stories exceeding 500 words, must first be approved by Julia Stein, Editor. Please send your submission in .doc format.  

Photographs must be sent  in .jpg format.  

All submissions are due by August 15, 2011 to CanadaECC@gmail.com  

 *We will send printed versions by special request for those who are unable to view the newsletter online.

Pastor/Spouse Retreat 2011

October 3-5 ~ Banff, Alberta

Registration for the Pastor/Spouse Retreat is now available on the website: www.canadacovenantchurch.org 

Registration is due by September 1, 2011.  

ALIVE 2011 

October 21-23 ~ Camrose, Alberta

Registration is open for the ALIVE conference. Please visit the website for more details and for registration information. 

Ecuador 2012 

January 21-30, 2012 ~ Quito, Ecuador 

Applications for the 2012 Ecuador adventure are now available. Please note that all applications are due by October 15, 2011.

Click here for more information.