Church workers’ conference on prayer

KENORA, Ont. – The Manitoba/Northwestern Ontario church workers’ conference took place October 7-9 at Luther Village under the theme of “Prayer.”

Thirteen church workers gathered to pray and study prayer together, charting the use and form of prayer from the Psalms and Collects, through our Lord’s Prayer, the development of Lectio Divina, and into post-Reformation prayer forms with Johann Gerhard and Johann Starck. The group marvelled at how the basic form and teachings of Luther’s Small Catechism were threaded throughout the entire history and practice of prayer, and how the Lord helped the faithful grow in faith through meditation and prayer in these central seeds.

Participants left the conference refreshed and attuned to the great heritage of faithful, daily prayer which the Church has inherited, and honoured to stand together with all the saints of past, present, and future.

Rev. Cam Schnarr

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