After reading Sherri's new post, my daughter sent me this short video and I just couldn't help myself; I had to post it here.
It is just for fun and I know that this is not the only thing our money is used for!
Monday, March 16, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Women & Money
Dori and I have prepared and led a day-long presentation for women about money. The first was the end of February in BC. Judging by the seminar evaluation forms, women found it helpful. The next one is in Ontario at the end of March.
What is the problem with money? Why do some women feel money is a mystery they can't solve? What is it about money that sometimes makes our knees shake? How can we help each other manage our money wisely?
If you are willing, please consider posting or emailing your questions, queries and thoughts about money. I'll try to answer or I will point you to someone who can.
You'll also be helping Dori and I prepare future presentations to women.
What is the problem with money? Why do some women feel money is a mystery they can't solve? What is it about money that sometimes makes our knees shake? How can we help each other manage our money wisely?
If you are willing, please consider posting or emailing your questions, queries and thoughts about money. I'll try to answer or I will point you to someone who can.
You'll also be helping Dori and I prepare future presentations to women.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Thank You!
After spending yesterday and today at the MCBC Annual Meeting, I am sitting here, feeling encouraged and for that I say "Thank You"!
So many of you came and spoke to me; telling me that you are looking forward to our Kelowna Inspirational Day, on May 2nd.
We sent home an envelope to each church today and in it you will find all the information you will need to get to Kelowna. Make sure that you get the information out to all your ladies at your church.
The first thing that you will need to do, is to sign up for the bus trip there!
The cost of the trip is $40.00 per person and it includes your lunch when you arrive at the church and a bagged snack for your way home.
We are also planning some fun while you are on your way to Kelowna!
Depending on how many of you sign up, will determine how many buses will be going.
Buses will leave from Peace M. Church, Richmond; Living Hope Christian Fellowship, Surrey; Eben-Ezer M. Church, Abbotsford and Eden M. in Chilliwack.
If you are driving there with your own vehicle, you will still need to register. The Kelowna women need to know for how many ladies they need to be prepared for.
The cost for food only is $12.00.
Make sure to put this date on your calendar and join us for a day of worship, food and fellowship!
Registration deadline for the bus is April 1 and if you need only the food, you need to be registered by April 22nd.
You can register through your home churches; the MCBC Office @ 604-850-6658, ask for Janette; you can contact me, Waltrude Gortzen by leaving me a note in the comment box or you can contact First Mennonite Church in Kelowna at 250-762-4522 or e-mail the church at kfmc@telus.net
This should get you registered one way or the other! :-)
I will remind you again, once we get closer to our event!
That's all for now!
Hope to hear from you!
So many of you came and spoke to me; telling me that you are looking forward to our Kelowna Inspirational Day, on May 2nd.
We sent home an envelope to each church today and in it you will find all the information you will need to get to Kelowna. Make sure that you get the information out to all your ladies at your church.
The first thing that you will need to do, is to sign up for the bus trip there!
The cost of the trip is $40.00 per person and it includes your lunch when you arrive at the church and a bagged snack for your way home.
We are also planning some fun while you are on your way to Kelowna!
Depending on how many of you sign up, will determine how many buses will be going.
Buses will leave from Peace M. Church, Richmond; Living Hope Christian Fellowship, Surrey; Eben-Ezer M. Church, Abbotsford and Eden M. in Chilliwack.
If you are driving there with your own vehicle, you will still need to register. The Kelowna women need to know for how many ladies they need to be prepared for.
The cost for food only is $12.00.
Make sure to put this date on your calendar and join us for a day of worship, food and fellowship!
Registration deadline for the bus is April 1 and if you need only the food, you need to be registered by April 22nd.
You can register through your home churches; the MCBC Office @ 604-850-6658, ask for Janette; you can contact me, Waltrude Gortzen by leaving me a note in the comment box or you can contact First Mennonite Church in Kelowna at 250-762-4522 or e-mail the church at kfmc@telus.net
This should get you registered one way or the other! :-)
I will remind you again, once we get closer to our event!
That's all for now!
Hope to hear from you!
Monday, February 16, 2009
New Beginnings!
WOW! It's February 16th already!
Can't believe that I have let so much time go by since I last posted something.
So very sorry about that!
Christmas has come and gone with all the business that the season brings every year.
Sure hope that everyone out there had a very blessed Christmas Season.
Now then.... I think that I really need to bring you up to date!
October 27, 2008!
The date that MCBC Women's Ministry was officially acknowledged as a new and emerging ministry by the MCBC Leadership Board. Praise the Lord for new beginnings!
Now we have to deal with a number of question that do not have any answers yet.
For example, what will this new ministry look like and who will be leading it in the future?
For the time being, until July 2010 when my term on the Canadian Women in Mission "Task Force" ends, I will try to be the person accountable to you and to the MCBC Leadership Board.
I am hoping that there are a few of you out there that would be willing to sit down with me, maybe over a cup of coffee or tea, and discuss how this ministry will take shape.
If this is something that might interest you, please feel free to contact me or come and talk to me at this weekend's MCBC AGM at Cedar Valley Mennonite Church in Mission.
I wrote a short report for the AGM Booklet that I had hoped to link to this blog but for whatever reason I am not able to link a document! :-(
Generally only AGM Delegates get to read the reports and I thought that our MCBC Women might all want to read it, so it is coming to you via the AGM this weekend. It will be sent along with your delegates and hopefully copies will be made for all of you in your home churches.
And, since all our previous BC Women in Mission Presidents always wrote at least 2 yearly letters, I have also written a letter to all of MCBC Women and this document is also coming home to you with your delegates.
I am also still actively looking for more contributors to this blog.
Sure hope that I will find some budding writers, very soon!
And speaking about blogs, the latest news from Canadian Women in Mission is that they have also started a blog. Check it out mennowomencanada.blogspot.com
Now how exciting is that?
Welcome ladies ! ! ! I have added you to our list of blogs!
On a personal note, to end up this post with, we welcomed our 5 grandchild. :-)
Emerson Aiden Gortzen joined us January 31, 2009. Everyone is doing well!
Can't believe that I have let so much time go by since I last posted something.
So very sorry about that!
Christmas has come and gone with all the business that the season brings every year.
Sure hope that everyone out there had a very blessed Christmas Season.
Now then.... I think that I really need to bring you up to date!
October 27, 2008!
The date that MCBC Women's Ministry was officially acknowledged as a new and emerging ministry by the MCBC Leadership Board. Praise the Lord for new beginnings!
Now we have to deal with a number of question that do not have any answers yet.
For example, what will this new ministry look like and who will be leading it in the future?
For the time being, until July 2010 when my term on the Canadian Women in Mission "Task Force" ends, I will try to be the person accountable to you and to the MCBC Leadership Board.
I am hoping that there are a few of you out there that would be willing to sit down with me, maybe over a cup of coffee or tea, and discuss how this ministry will take shape.
If this is something that might interest you, please feel free to contact me or come and talk to me at this weekend's MCBC AGM at Cedar Valley Mennonite Church in Mission.
I wrote a short report for the AGM Booklet that I had hoped to link to this blog but for whatever reason I am not able to link a document! :-(
Generally only AGM Delegates get to read the reports and I thought that our MCBC Women might all want to read it, so it is coming to you via the AGM this weekend. It will be sent along with your delegates and hopefully copies will be made for all of you in your home churches.
And, since all our previous BC Women in Mission Presidents always wrote at least 2 yearly letters, I have also written a letter to all of MCBC Women and this document is also coming home to you with your delegates.
I am also still actively looking for more contributors to this blog.
Sure hope that I will find some budding writers, very soon!
And speaking about blogs, the latest news from Canadian Women in Mission is that they have also started a blog. Check it out mennowomencanada.blogspot.com
Now how exciting is that?
Welcome ladies ! ! ! I have added you to our list of blogs!
On a personal note, to end up this post with, we welcomed our 5 grandchild. :-)
Emerson Aiden Gortzen joined us January 31, 2009. Everyone is doing well!
Our newest blessing! Also a NEW beginning!Sooooo..... these were some of the highlights over the last few months.
PS. Will try to be more efficient from here on!
PS. Will try to be more efficient from here on!
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Welcome ! ! !
Are you paying attention?
Did you notice?
We now have a second contributing author to this blog.
A warm welcome to Dori Zerbe-Cornelsen.
May the Lord bless you and inspire you!
Did you notice?
We now have a second contributing author to this blog.
A warm welcome to Dori Zerbe-Cornelsen.
May the Lord bless you and inspire you!
Friday, December 5, 2008
Room for joy?
There are many reasons for anxiety and discontent out there these days. Perhaps that’s why my eye was attracted this evening to the following headline at CBCnews.ca: "Joy to the world is contagious: study." According to the study, we’re more likely to be happy if we are connected to other people who are happy. In fact, researchers say, "Whether you're happy depends not just on your own actions and behaviours and thoughts, but on those of people you don't even know."
If that could be true, I wondered, what are the ways I can imagine growing the joy around me? At home I need to remember that immediate circumstances that can annoy me or try my patience are temporary – I love the members of my family and need to communicate to them (more than I maybe do) the incredible joy I experience being part of their lives. At the office, I can express my appreciation for the good work of my colleagues and be more encouraging as we share common goals. In my congregational context, I would like to express my gratitude more openly for those who have taken on leadership roles to administer, challenge and nurture our life together. And in general, I can smile more often, say thank you more genuinely, and notice all of the ways the people around me, including strangers, share their joy.
Maybe paying attention like this is precisely the way I can prepare my heart to give Jesus room this Advent season…and heav’n and nature sing!
If that could be true, I wondered, what are the ways I can imagine growing the joy around me? At home I need to remember that immediate circumstances that can annoy me or try my patience are temporary – I love the members of my family and need to communicate to them (more than I maybe do) the incredible joy I experience being part of their lives. At the office, I can express my appreciation for the good work of my colleagues and be more encouraging as we share common goals. In my congregational context, I would like to express my gratitude more openly for those who have taken on leadership roles to administer, challenge and nurture our life together. And in general, I can smile more often, say thank you more genuinely, and notice all of the ways the people around me, including strangers, share their joy.
Maybe paying attention like this is precisely the way I can prepare my heart to give Jesus room this Advent season…and heav’n and nature sing!
Blogging for the first time...
Thanks to Waltrude for inviting me to be part of this blog. I live in Winnipeg in a house that’s just across the street from the BDI – the home of the creamiest shake in town, they say. I share the household with my spouse and two teenage children and a small dog who is pretty old and crotchety these days. Like Sherri who sent her first blog in October, I work for Mennonite Foundation of Canada that wants to help people connect faith and finances, encouraging FAITHFUL JOYFUL GIVING. It’s something I’m pretty passionate about.
I have lots of connections in BC so I’m really pleased to participate in this blog. I’m always open to your responses!
I have lots of connections in BC so I’m really pleased to participate in this blog. I’m always open to your responses!
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