The 4th Annual Burlington Leadership Prayer Breakfast

Thursday, 15 April 2010
Starting at 06: 45 am
Burlington Convention Centre
1120 Burloak Drive, Burlington
Hot Buffet at 6:45 am
Program begins at 7:15 am

This year’s guest speaker is Ann Mulvale.

As a child growing up in a post-war England that was deeply wounded in body, mind and spirit, Ann Mulvale’s earliest faith-impressions were of a God of fear and anger.

But the guest speaker at the fourth-annual Burlington Leadership Prayer Breakfast on April 15 said the “moment when the light came on, the defining moment in my life, was when I discovered that the God of fear was, in fact, the God of love.”

The former mayor of Oakville, and an active member of numerous community and provincial boards, associations and committees, Mulvale’s shared her faith journey including during the time when her husband Peter was stricken with cancer and subsequently died.

“Faith doesn’t take away the pain of grief, but faith and being surrounded by a community of faith does make grief bearable,” she told the 450 attendees at the Burlington Convention Centre. “Gradually, I have relaxed in life and learned to understand that faith is about plunging your hand into the darkness, trusting that God’s hand will be there to grasp yours.”

She encouraged all in positions of authority to “become servant-leaders in the footsteps of Jesus.”

The prayer for the community and its leaders was led by Kirk Giles, president of Burlington-based Promise Keepers Canada. Confessing that “we all too often tend to complain about our leaders rather than pray for them,” Giles prayed that all in positions leadership would be blessed with wisdom, discernment, courage and integrity.

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