Indigenous is an umbrella term for First Nations, Inuit and Métis people.
We can only cover so much during our Sunday morning teaching. There’s always so much more to the topic. If you are enjoying our current teaching series and want to go deeper, here are some places you can learn more.
Current Series: Power Struggle
In our world there are powers at play. Often when we experience these powers they make us feel “less than”. No wonder that we are desperate to reach for power and we turn to any and all sources available to us – like the power of wealth, political power, the advantages we have because of natural talents we may posess, family or other connections that lend us strength, education / knowledge, access to technology, even our health gives us power. Our relationship with power is complicated. In this series we will study power from a scriptural persepctive to understand how people who desire to be fully-devoted followers of Jesus express, respond to, and submit to power. 2 Timothy 1:7 says, “For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.” Ultimately we will find that love is what happens when we share our power. Who is love? Jesus!
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But if you’re looking for a good read right now, the Bible is always a great resource.
INDIGENOUS RECONCILIATION
Resources for Settlers
Why is reconciliation important?
We recognize the harms churches have committed in the name of Jesus to Indigenous people and communities, and we acknowledge our role as Mennonites in some of these harms. We also recognize that harms continue to be committed against Indigenous people and their lands by powerful forces in our society. May we stand with them in love and solidarity until true reconciliation is fully achieved.
These resources are a starting place to encourage settlers in our faith community to educate themselves, and to personally commit to being people of reconciliation. God, we pray that this knowledge would guide our words, our hearts and our actions.
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A Prayer of Reconciliation
Holy One, Creator of all that is, seen and unseen,
of story and of song, of heartbeat and of tears
of bodies, souls, voices and all relations:
you are the God of all truth and the way of all reconciliation.
Uphold with your love and compassion all who open their lives
in the sacred sharing of their stories
breathe in us the grace to trust in your loving forgiveness,
that we may face our histories with courage;
touch us through the holy gift of story
that those who speak and those who listen may behold your own redeeming presence;
guide us with holy wisdom to enter through the gates of remorse
that our feet may walk gently and firmly on the way of justice and healing.