GI Outbreak – Hospital, TE, Pav – Chapel Cancelled March 17
UPDATE: MARCH 11 There is an outbreak at Terrace, Pavilion and Menno Hospital. CHAPEL SERVICES CANCELLED MARCH 17 Here is the update for March 11 – 17 Next update on outbreak: March 18 CANCELLED: ALL Recreation activities in Apartments. CANCELLED: All Recreation activities in Home and Hospital that have outside guests. CANCELLED: All Recreation activities […]
Palliative Approach Team
We are proud to present the Palliative Approach Team for Menno Home and Menno Hospital: Thank you to each of you for providing the kind of leadership that makes Menno Place very special at end of life. What is the Palliative Approach and how are we shifting to this approach at Menno Place? A palliative […]
Team Member Appreciation – Nominees
In 2018, Menno Place opened up the nominations for the Special Awards (Safety Champion, Creative Solutions and Living Our Values) to all staff, residents and family members. We received 82 nominations for these awards – 1/2 from residents & family and 1/2 from team members. At the Team Member Appreciation Tea, we called up all […]
Civility Matters – How One Organization (us!) is Responding to Workplace Incivility: Q & A with Trish Giesbrecht
From SafeCareBC: (www.SafeCareBC.ca) Home to more than 700 seniors, Abbotsford’s Menno Place offers a full range of housing and long-term care options—from independent living to residential complex care. On February 27, Trish Giesbrecht, Manager of Care at Menno, will be a panelist on a webinar hosted by SafeCare BC that will discuss the concept of […]
Team Member Appreciation Tea – Award Winners for 2018
On Tuesday, February 12th, Menno Place held our 6th annual Menno Place Team Member Appreciation Tea. During this time, we recognize and honour the staff of Menno Place for: Excellent Attendance Service Awards (5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40 years of service) Special Awards: Safety Champion; Creative Solutions; Living Our Values Karen Baillie, […]
It’s T4 Time again!
It’s T4 time again! We are preparing to send out T4 forms. According to the Government of Canada instructions, your T4 must be provided to you through email or by mail. Unless otherwise instructed, we will be sending you your T4 by email to the same address where you receive your Menno Place Team News. […]
Team Member Appreciation Tea – The Program: Excellent Attendance, Service Awards, Nominees, Winners
Team Member Appreciation Program – Feb 11, 2019 KAREN BAILLIE- CEO WELCOME TEAM MEMBERS, Family Members and Board Members to the 6th ANNUAL TEAM MEMBER APPRECIATION TEA. This year we will be honoring 60 staff who have worked at Menno from 5 to 40 years! This is an accumulation of 745 years of service! We are […]
Stop and Think – Managing Your Mood
/in News, Not Myself TodayHymn 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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Stress and Resilience
/in Mental Health, News, Not Myself TodayHymn 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 […]