We’ve invited the community to decorate our campus

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If you see decorations popping up around the Menno Place campus, you will know that this is the heart of the community giving you a message of hope and support. We shared on www.Facebook.com/Mennoplace and to our families that we need them right now – and that decorating trees and bushes is one way of telling our staff and residents that the community is with us.

Here’s what we wrote:

**Would you like to encourage the Menno Place staff and residents? **

We have an idea… maybe it’s a bit “out there”, but we think it will feel joyful and wonderful and encouraging. We need some cheer – and so do you!
These are strange times and we need a boost of hope and joy and love and peace. Our staff need a boost of encouragement and energy and smiles. Our residents need a boost, knowing that the community is cheering them on.
So, what’s our big idea?

We are inviting the people who love and care for seniors and Menno Place to come here and decorate any of our trees and shrubs around the campus. We are asking you to come to us and show your support by making our trees and bushes alive with joy and love and strength and community support.

 

We welcome you with your ornaments and your ribbons and your dangly-doos and your happy sounds. Bring your instruments, your voices, your prayers and your good will as you decorate. Bring your banners and signs and glitter and ribbons. We welcome it all! Cut loose and bring us the cheer of Christmas – and cheer us on!

 

Bring your families and school cohorts. Be safe, and come and bring your joy! We want you here. We want to see you cheering us on. We need you.

 

We don’t have plugins, so electrical displays are not an option, but we welcome everything else that beautifies.

 

There’s a familiar Christmas story that many of us watch every year – it’s all about how a Grinch tried to steal Christmas from the good people of Whoville. Nothing could stop Christmas – nothing.
Even when every part of traditional Christmas was taken from them, the Who’s in Whoville sang:
Christmas day will always be
Just so long as we have we. 

We need you. Will come and bring the Christmas love and cheer? Nothing, even COVID, can stop the love and togetherness that we have as a community. Will you show us your support?