This past week, Pastor Tim Rauser was leading the music team and he also wrote the refrain for our Psalm. While I was prepping for Sunday with him, we had a number of good conversations, particularly around Psalm 13. This Psalm is very brief...
Read moreOlympians Shoebox Packing Party
Olympians is having their Shoe Box Packing Party again this year. Last year was so much fun with ‘organized chaos’ happening everywhere. Hopefully it will be the same this year. Have a look at Operation Christmas Child website to see the impact...
Read moreOctober 23, 2016
Pastor Harv Sawatzky Series: The Building of a People Sermon:How Strong is Your Faith? Genesis 22 October 23, 2016 from Sharon Sawatzky on Vimeo.
Read moreThe Story this Week: Who Writes these Psalms?
If you’ve been able to join MBC in worship at some point over the past two months, you will have experienced the little “worship experiment” that we’ve been trying as we sing the Psalms. For the first few weeks, it was truly an experiment! I had...
Read moreOctober 16, 2016
Sermon Series: The Building of a People Today’s Sermon: The God of Hope (Genesis 18) Pastor: Tim Braun October 16, 2016 from Sharon Sawatzky on Vimeo.
Read moreThe Story this Week: “buds of heaven”?
Poetry is a strange thing. Differing time periods and cultures have their own unique ways of communicating truth. One of the most obvious ways we see this as the church is in the songs we sing. Regardless of whether they are hymns or choruses...
Read moreOctober 9, 2016
Series: The Building of a People Sermon: The Formation of a Nation Genesis 12 & 15 Pastor Harv Sawatzky October 9, 2016 from Sharon Sawatzky on Vimeo.
Read moreOct. 2, 2016
The Building of a People Sermon – Pastor Harv Sawatzky “Flood and Covenant” – Gen. 6-8
Read moreThe Story this Week: Worship as Dialogue
For those of you who happen to read these blogs on a regular basis, I hope it’s becoming easier to ‘read the story’ or understand the flow of our worship. As always, this past Sunday we began with a Call to Worship, a passage of scripture which...
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