Stop and Think – Managing Your Mood

Hymn Stories – April 2024

This 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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Stress and Resilience

Hymn Stories – March 2024

The 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

This 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

January’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!

January 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

Joy 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

I 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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Hymn Stories – October 2023

The 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

The 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

The 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

Hymn Stories – July 2023

Written 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

It 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

Joyful, 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!

Are 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

On 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

“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 […]

Hand Hygiene Awareness

Stop! Clean Your Hands Day Quiz Time!

Happy Nurses Week! May 6-10 *Revised for Outbreak

Summer Internship!

Fitness Challenge Wrap Up

It is that time! Those participating in the Menno Fitness Challenge for the last few months need to hand in their Challenge Calendars for Round 6. Deadline to hand in completed calendars is May 6 @ 2pm Please submit to Teresa Halovich or Jeanette Lee Winners will be notified May 8, 2019  

Influenza Control Policy Program OVER!

Effective immediately, the Fraser Health Influenza Control Policy for the 2018/2019 season is no longer in effect. That means all physicians, clinical staff and visitors are no longer required to mask in patient care areas in our facilities if they have not received a flu shot this year.

National Day of Mourning – April 28th

Introducing Smitha Varghese…

Heidi’s Scarves & Jewellery

Farewell Tea for Trish Giesbrecht April 26th

Crazy Hat Day – April 18th

AVON @ Fireside – April 18th

GI Outbreak – Menno Hospital and Home – Chapel Cancelled April 14

UPDATE: APRIL 8 – Hospital and Home There is a GI outbreak at Menno Hospital. Respiratory outbreak Menno Home E1 and W1 – all protocols in place for every unit. CHAPEL SERVICES CANCELLED APRIL 14 – Home and Hospital CANCELLED: All Recreation activities in Hospital that have outside guests. CANCELLED: Chapel activities, including Sunday chapel […]

Office Moves – Darlene Novak, Cyndy Gabriel, Dan Janzen

There have been some office moves in the past few months – here’s where you’ll find the people you are looking for… Darlene Novak, Manager, Assisted Living and Professional Practice Lead Terrace East (Assisted Living Apartment) – 6th Floor Call: 604.851.4018 x.4619 ———- Cyndy Gabriel, Director of Care: Home & Hospital Office located by the […]

Influenza Policy Extension

BC is experiencing a second (back-to-back) influenza A wave due to unusual late-season A(H3N2) predominance. Usually the Provincial Health Officer, in consultation with medical health officers, notifies that implementation of the Influenza Policy can end by late March. However, it is clear that influenza is still very much in circulation and impacting people and health […]

GI Outbreak – Menno Hospital and Home – Chapel Cancelled March 31

UPDATE: MARCH 28 – Hospital  There is a GI outbreak at Menno Hospital – all protocols in place for every unit. CHAPEL SERVICES CANCELLED MARCH 31 – Home and Hospital CANCELLED: All Recreation activities in Hospital that have outside guests. CANCELLED: Chapel activities, including Sunday chapel on March 31st No hairdressing for Menno Hospital. HOSPITAL […]

Elvis is IN THE BUILDING April 4th

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