“Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart."—Colossians 4:2

Prayer demands ongoing attention. In practical terms, this means prayer is not supposed to be a careless, casual, or frivolous act. We should pray with specific purpose and with deliberate intent. And we're so grateful that you pray!

Please continue to pray through our Conference and for what God is going to do in our midst!

To facilitate our Conference—our National Office will be closed 4:30 pm on Friday, May 10th through to Monday, May 20th (Victoria Day).

We will resume regular office hours on Tuesday, May 21st at 8:00 am.

Please note: voicemails will *only* be checked periodically during the week; if you have an urgent need please email: annette@acop.ca. Annette will best know how to help during our Conference week. Thanks for understanding!

There will be no newsletter next week as we are enjoying our time with you face-to-face!

As has been previously announced—during the business meeting at of our biennial conference we will be considering changes to three of the statements in our statement of faith.

After prayerful consideration of the feed back we have received on this proposal, we felt it was important to expand our proposed changes to the statement regarding water baptism.

Our previously proposed change was:

In Water Baptism of believers by immersion.

The revision that will be presented at the business meeting will be:

In Water Baptism of believers by immersion, in identification with the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus.

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