Take Our Moments and Our Days: An Anabaptist Prayer Book

We invite you to share in a form of prayer that originated in the earliest Christian times and has continued through the centuries.

The distinctive Anabaptist flavor of this collection of daily prayers is evident in the predominance of Jesus’ voice, the space for communal reflection on scripture, and the specific choices of Bible readings. We offer these services in the hope that you will find in them a way of prayer through which the voice of Jesus will pervade your whole day.

Using the Anabaptist Prayer Book

Each volume has helpful information in the Preface, Introduction and Notes on the importance of daily prayer, how to pray with others, how these prayer services are organized and ways to use these services in different settings. Please read these beginning sections of the volumes as you begin exploring Take Our Moments and Our Days.

Two volumes for the church year

Volume I: Take Our Moments and Our Days for Ordinary Time

Volume I of Take Our Moments and Our Days is designed for Ordinary Time with a four-week cycle of morning and evening prayers. These draw on the Lord’s Prayer, the Beatitudes, parables and miracles.

Volume II: Take Our Moments and Our Days for Advent through Pentecost

Volume II of Take Our moments and Our Days includes morning and evening prayers for the seasons of Advent. Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, Easter and Pentecost.

Published by Herald Press in collaboration with the Institute of Mennonite Studies at Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana.