Staff News: New Treasurer Announced

did it the next week. Then we added other concerns for prayer, and thanksgiving for the answers we were experiencing. Some people who could not meet with us physically in prayer asked if they could be part of our prayer ministry, so the list of praises, thanksgivings and petitions began to go out via emails and in the mail.

Three years later, those prayer pages continue to go out each week!

Praying through the pandemic COVID-19 arrived in Toronto and churches closed. However, we felt that prayer needed to continue. With Pastor Jim’s help we moved to Zoom quite quickly. Now a different group of pray-ers has formed and prayer at Donway has not stopped. for those who cannot go onto Zoom or feel uncomfortable praying online, the prayer pages reach them by email.

Because prayer has continued, our church family remains very connected.

We have prayed and continue to pray . . . for protection from the virus for all of us and especially for our front-line workers; for our youth and children whose education and future plans have been so interrupted; for our older members who are alone and need contact with us; and so much more. We are blessed at Donway to have church family from many different countries. Most of them are alone in Toronto and many have experienced the death of loved ones during this pandemic. They cannot travel to their families back home and live in deep grief here. Again, the prayer pages help us to remember and to reach out to them during these sad days. Church friends keep phoning in with their prayer requests and answers to prayer. They want to be included and to know that they are part of God’s family. (A by-product of having to use Zoom is that Pastor Jim prepares the Zoom meeting invitation for us and so he graciously invites everyone from Donway to pray with us. Because of this weekly invitation to prayer, all of us at Donway are reminded that prayer is a constant and vital part of our ministry.) Praying into the future One of our ongoing prayers at the present time is that God will show Donway His plan for us as we go through CBOQ’s revitalization process with other Canadian Baptist churches.

Right now, we are taking our prayers out into our immediate neighbourhood. Our deacons have invited us to pray for the families who will move into the houses being constructed next door to our church. Each of us was asked to pray for one house that would become a home to newcomers. We are also hoping to set up a prayer outreach to all our neighbours, asking them for specific prayer requests or simply offering a listening ear.

We thank our Living father who wants us to pray, who hears us and responds in so many beautiful ways. This is our journey and it has just begun. It is exciting to see where prayer will lead us. 

Staff News

CBWOQ Welcomes New Treasurer

WE ARE HAPPY TO WELCOME our new treasurer, Rose Amer. Rose is a bi-vocational pastor with her husband Amer. They planted a non-denominational church in Niagara falls seven years ago and they are in the process of moving the church to become part of CBOQ. Rose also does accounting for the Salvation Army. Rose loves travelling, long road trips, and stores as many good theological books as she can into her basement library. You can reach Rose at cbwoqtreasurer@baptist.ca