Appreciate our Social Work Team – Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Thank you to Dan, Kim and Tamara for advocating, caring and breaking barriers for residents and families here at Menno Place.
Hymn Stories – March 2023
As a young boy, the author of this month’s hymn, O God, Our Help in Ages Past, was challenged by his father to write better hymns for their congregation. Isaac Watts went on to be a prolific writer of hymns, theology, sermons and other works. All of these writings had a powerful influence upon the thinking of the late seventeen and early eighteenth centuries. Find out more about this hymn!
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Hymn Stories – February 2023
Jesus Loves Me. Without doubt the hymn that has influenced children for Christ more than any other is this simply stated one, written in 1860 by Anna Bartlett Warner. Warner wrote this text as a poem spoken by one of the characters in a best-selling novel written by her sister. Find out more about the fascinating Warner sisters!
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Hymn Stories – January 2023
This month’s hymn is a All Creatures of our God and King. This inspiring expression of praise found in nearly every hymnal was originally written in 1225 by one of the most interesting figures in all of church history. Giovanni Bernardone, who was better known as Saint Francis of Assisi, was a medieval monk who spent his lifetime as an itinerant evangelist, preaching and helping the poor people of Italy.
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Hymn Stories – December 2022
This month’s hymn is a Christmas classic from the 19th century. Written by Father Joseph Mohr and composed by Franz Gruber, the story of “Stille Nacht” features a broken down organ on Christmas Eve, a poem, and the lofty desire to write the perfect Christmas song!
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Hymn Stories – November 2022
The hymn, “Jesus Paid It All”, has ministered to and blessed countless numbers of people for more than a century. “A woman scribbles a poem on the flyleaf of her hymnal, an amateur church musician unknowingly creates a matching tune, an unknown pastor provides encouragement and another hymn is born.”
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ShakeOut BC – Thurs Oct 20, 2022
“Drop, Cover, and Hold On!” Menno Place does the Great British Columbia ShakeOut drill TODAY Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 10:20am!
ShakeOut BC – Thurs Oct 20, 2022
“Drop, Cover, and Hold On!” Menno Place does the Great British Columbia ShakeOut drill on Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 10:20am!
Influenza Self-Reporting – Report your decision by Dec. 30
It’s time to get your flu shot – please use these self-reporting forms to provide proof of vaccination or to indicate that you are not receiving the flu shot.
#ShakeOut – The Great British Columbia Shake Out! October 20, 2022
“Drop, Cover, and Hold On!” Menno Place does the Great British Columbia ShakeOut drill on Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 10:20am!
Hymn Stories – October 2022
The deeply personal hymn, “I Need Thee Every Hour” was written out of the daily experiences of a busy housewife and mother, Annie Hawks, in the year 1872. “Suddenly, I became filled with the sense of nearness to the Master, and I began to wonder how anyone could ever live without Him, either in joy or pain. Then, the words were ushered into my mind and these thoughts took full possession of me – ‘I need Thee every hour’.”
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#ShakeOut – The Great British Columbia Shake Out! October 20, 2022
“Drop, Cover, and Hold On!” Menno Place does the Great British Columbia ShakeOut drill on Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 10:20am!
#ShakeOut – The Great British Columbia Shake Out! October 20, 2022
“Drop, Cover, and Hold On!” Menno Place does the Great British Columbia ShakeOut drill on Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 10:20am!
EDUCATION EXPO 2022 – back IN-PERSON for the first time since 2019
Fun! Snacks! Music! Next Tuesday, Sept 20th in the Big Courtyard!
Hymn Stories – September 2022
A favourite hymn for many, “Be Thou My Vision” has a storied history going back to the 8th century! Find out more about this hymn and other helpful resources for seniors.
Menno Place Video: Welcome Home
Watch and enjoy this joyful Menno Place video filmed last summer on our campus of care! Be sure to share the video from our Facebook page!
Love’m or Hate’m – Wine Gums
Do Wine Gums bring back good memories or would you rather forget them altogether?!? Let me know if you love or hate Wine Gums. Your name will be put in a draw to win these candies. Email Jeanette.lee@mennoplace.ca Put “Wine Gums” in the Subject Line Deadline Aug 19, 2022 @ noon.
Resident’s Summer Party
We are having fun with the residents! Sorry, the food served is for the residents only but feel free to come and join us for some laughs and great music!
Hymn Stories – August 2022
“I Surrender All”, written by Judson Van de Venter (whose ministry impacted the preaching of Dr. Billy Graham) is our hymn for the month for August. Van de Venter penned the lyrics about a pivotal moment in his life and in his account of the writing of the hymn text, said this: “God had hidden a song in my heart, and touching a tender chord, He caused me to sing.”
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Hymn Stories – April 2024
/in Important Update, NewsThis poem, written by an Irish woman named Jean Sophia Pigott, became the favorite hymn of J. Hudson Taylor, the great missionary to China. Find out how the hymn Jesus, I am Resting, Resting helped strengthen the faith of an overwhelmed man near breakdown.
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Hymn Stories – March 2024
/in Important Update, NewsThe authors of the this month’s modern hymn are committed to creating a more timeless musical style that every generation can sing. Find out more about In Christ Alone by Keith & Kristyn Getty and Stuart Townsend.
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Hymn Stories – February 2024
/in Important Update, NewsThis month’s hymn is Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty penned by English minister, Reginald Heber, in the early 19th century. Heber was a gifted poet and hymnist who faithfully served his small congregation. After his death, his widow discovered he had written over 50 hymns. She succeeded in publishing his work and brought them to the forefront of the Christian community.
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Hymn Stories – January 2024
/in Important Update, NewsJanuary’s hymn is Trusting Jesus. This textually and musically simple expression of child-like trust in Jesus has met the daily spiritual needs of many of God’s people to the present time.
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Nominate a Team Member! Team Appreciation!
/in Important Update, NewsJanuary 25th will be a celebration of Service Awards and three categories of awards for staff members who are nominated for three awards recognizing Outstanding Contribution – click here to find out more
Hymn Stories – December 2023
/in Important Update, NewsJoy is the keynote of the entire Advent season, especially for the Christian, who realizes its spiritual significance – God Himself invading this world and providing a means whereby sinful man might live eternally. Joy to the World is generally considered to be one of the most joyous Christmas hymns in existence, not in the sense of merry-making, but in the deep and solemn realization of what Christ’s birth has meant to mankind. Find out more about this hymn by Isaac Watts.
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Hymn Stories – November 2023
/in Important Update, NewsI am Trusting Thee, Lord Jesus is one of the child-like, but beautiful expressions from the soul of the esteemed English poetess, Frances Ridley Havergal, often referred to as “the Sweetest Voice of Hymnody.” Find out more about this hymn!
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Time Change Sunday November 5
/in Apartments, Events, HOME, HOSPITAL, Important Update, NewsDaylight Savings ENDS on Sunday November 5 at 2am.
Hymn Stories – October 2023
/in Important Update, NewsThe writer of Count Your Blessings, Rev. Johnson Oatman Jr., was one of the important and prolific gospel song writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Find out more about this gospel song!
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Hymn Stories – September 2023
/in Important Update, NewsThe Love of God, written and composed by Frederick M. Lehman by 1919, has its roots in a Jewish poem, written in Germany in the eleventh century. The Jewish poem, Hadamut, in the Aramaic language, has ninety couplets. Find out more about this gospel song!
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Hymn Stories – August 2023
/in Important Update, NewsThe beloved gospel hymn, All The Way My Savior Leads Me, written by Franny Crosby was the expression of gratitude to God after a direct and peculiar answer to prayer. Find out more about this hymn!
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Talking Openly
/in News, Not Myself TodayHymn Stories – July 2023
/in Important Update, NewsWritten and published in 1833, O Worship the King, is considered one of the finest hymns from the early nineteenth century Romantic Era. It has often been called a model hymn for worship. Find out more about this hymn and its author, Robert Grant.
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Hymn Stories – June 2023
/in Important Update, NewsIt was in 1912 that C. Austin Miles was asked to write a hymn text that would be “sympathetic in tone, breathing tenderness in every line; one that would bring hope to the hopeless, rest for the weary, and downy pillows to dying beds.” Find out more about In The Garden.
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Hymn Stories – May 2023
/in Important Update, NewsJoyful, Joyful We Adore Thee, which is sung to the music of Beethoven’s “Hymn of Joy”, is generally considered by hymnologists to be one of the most joyous expressions of hymn lyrics in the English language. Find out more about this hymn inspired by the Berkshire mountains!
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COR Audit starts Monday!
/in COR, Important Update, NewsAre you ready if the auditor speaks to you? Review the Health & Safety Audit questions and answers! The audit takes place May 1 – 3, 2023.
CORky’s Back! – The COR Questions & Answers
/in COR, Important Update, NewsOn May 1 – 3, 2023, Menno Place will be having our annual COR Health & Safety Audit. You may be asked to meet with the auditor. Let’s all be ready! Watch your email over the coming weeks for review questions and answers to strengthen your COR knowledge.
SAFETY IS NO ACCIDENT – THE COR QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
/in COR, News“You’re going to fly through this!” – CORky, the SAFETY HERO May 1-3, 2023 If you don’t know the answer, say, “I would ask my supervisor” Review the key COR questions: RESPONSIBLILTY Can you describe your health and safety responsibilities? Protect my health and safety and the health and safety of others Follow established safe work […]
Addressing Stress
/in News, Not Myself TodayHymn Stories – April 2023
/in Important Update, NewsChrist the Lord is Risen Today was written by Charles Wesley in 1739 for the first chapel service held in a deserted iron foundry in London, England, which later became known as the Foundry Meeting House. Find out more about this hymn!
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