Take Our Moments # 1: An Anabaptist Prayer Book: Ordinary Time

by Arthur Boers, Barbara Nelson Gingerich (Compiler), Eleanor Kreider (Compiler), John Rempel (Compiler), Mary H. Schertz (Compiler)

Overview

Take Our Moments and Our Days: An Anabaptist Prayer Book is a four-week cycle of morning and evening prayer services for Ordinary Time. The services are designed for use by families or small groups and are also suitable for individuals. Virtually all the prayers are directly from the Bible, and traditional Anabaptist themes are strikingly prominent.

Also check out Volume 2 in this series: Take Our Moments and Our Days: An Anabaptist Prayer Book: Advent through Pentecost

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780836198102
Publisher:	MennoMedia
Publication date:	05/11/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	432
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	3 Months to 15 Years

About the Author

Barbara Nelson Gingerich is managing editor at the Institute of Mennonite Studies, Elkhart, Ind. She is co-compiler of Take Our Moments and Our Days (Vol. 1): An Anabaptist Prayer Book: Ordinary Time.
Arthur Boers holds the R. J. Bernardo Family Chair of Leadership at Tyndale Seminary (Toronto, Canada). He previously taught pastoral theology at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (Elkhart, Indiana). A Benedictine oblate, he served for over sixteen years as a Mennonite pastor in rural, urban, and church-planting settings in the United States and Canada. He has written or co-written six books, including The Way is Made by Walking: A Pilgrimage Along the Camino de Santiago (InterVarsity, 2007), reflecting on an 800-kilometer pilgrimage that he walked in Spain; Never Call Them Jerks: Healthy Responses to Difficult Behavior (Alban, 1999) and Take Our Moments and Our Days, volumes one and two and Day by Day These Things We Pray: Uncovering Ancient Rhythms of Prayer (all from Herald Press).
Eleanor Kreider is the author of several books and many articles on worship. She served with Mennonite Board of Missions (a predecessor agency of Mennonite Mission Network) in the United Kingdom from 1974–2004 She is co-compiler of Take Our Moments and Our Days (Vol. 1): An Anabaptist Prayer Book: Ordinary Time. With her husband, Alan, she is the co-author of Worship and Mission After Christendom (2011, Herald Press).
John Rempel is a professor of theology and Anabaptist studies and associate director of the Institute of Mennonite Studies at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Ind. He is co-compiler of Take Our Moments and Our Days (Vol. 1): An Anabaptist Prayer Book: Ordinary Time and author of several books, including The Lord’s Supper in Anabaptism(Herald Press).
Mary H. Schertz is a professor of New Testament at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Ind. She is co-compiler of Take Our Moments and Our Days (Vol. 1): An Anabaptist Prayer Book: Ordinary Time.

What People are Saying About This

Endorsement

Coming from, of all things, the Mennonite tradition, is Take Our Moments and Our Days: An Anabaptist Prayerbook. This is a wonderful and easy to use prayer book, providing a four week cycle of morning and evening prayer. Cleverly, each week has a theme assigned to it, with that week's office somehow a reflection of its theme. Week One's theme is the Lord's Prayer, Week Two is the Beatitudes, Week Three is the Parables, Week Four is Signs and Wonders. Each office follows a pattern of praising, listening, and responding. This is a very charming (in the best sense of the word) prayer book, and I recommend it for those who require simplicity in their prayer structure.
—Review taken from article in St. Gregory's Abbey Newsletter, no. 237 (Easter 2009).

"It is a blessing to have a prayer book rooted in our common Christian tradition of morning and evening prayer. It is unabashedly Anabaptist while employing the best elements of Christian prayer from other ancient and contemporary Christian sources. The layout is simple and clear and holds to a consistent pattern."
—Father Andrew D. Ciferni, O.Praem., Daylesford Abbey, Paoli, Pa.

"A superb prayer book! The editors have done an outstanding job choosing texts and hymns and writing prayers and forms to establish substantial patterns of prayer. Their language is that of the universal church, so this publication knits its users to Christians throughout time and space. I pray that this volume will be used widely and well."
—Marva J. Dawn, author of Talking the Walk and Joy in Divine Wisdom