Welcome to our Resident & Family Centred Care Project Lead, Michelle Merkel
Menno Place welcomes Michelle Merkel, Resident and Family Centred Care Project Lead. Click to read more about the project and Michelle’s leadership experience…
Wear Red for Valentine’s Day
On February 14th celebrate caring for each other by wearing red and enjoy some treats in all staff rooms.
Recreation Therapy Day – Feb 9th
Recreation Therapy Day is Wednesday, February 9th. Let’s thank those who run creative programs and activities for or residents.
Team Member Appreciation Event 2022
We are grateful for YOU! Join us for lunch on Feb 17 or 18.
Thank You to Staff from Anne Rypma
I want to express my sincere thanks to my apartment family here at Menno place. The road ahead is going to be a long one but we are hopeful to one day make our house a home once again. God has been good and I have faith he will continue to guide us through the next steps forward.
Welcome Life Enrichment Associates – Judith Sung, Tamara Stasich
Please welcome two new Life Enrichment Associates, working in the Apartments. These team members provide assistance with infection control protocols and special projects.
Hawaiian Shirt Day – January 21st – TOMORROW!
Hawaiian shirt day is a fun day to feel like you are in paradise – everyone is looking for the sun!
Hymn Stories – January 2022
Our 2022 Calendar has extra resources for you to read and enjoy! Click for links that tell the stories of the Hymns and videos that share the songs.
With Love We Remember – Erika Enns
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Erika Enns of Abbotsford, BC. She passed away in the early hours of Dec 25, 2021 at Mission Hospice after a brief battle with cancer at the age of 72. She will be profoundly missed by her mother, Erika Sara Enns, and five siblings: […]
Love it or Hate It! Sauerkraut
Sauerkraut is definitely an acquired taste! Let me know if you Love it or Hate It. Your name will be put in a draw and you may be the lucky winner of this 4L jar. Email Jeanette at jeanette.lee@mennoplace.ca 🙂
Congratulations to Miah Loski – Future LPN!
Congratulations to Miah Loski – Future LPN! Menno Place recognizes the importance of providing learning opportunities and funding to maximize the potential of our team members through the Education Assistance Program. This program is funded by the Mennonite Benevolent Society. Miah is currently a HCA at Menno Home who has successfully applied and been approved […]
Food Trucks in the Courtyard a Great Treat!
Menno Association Christmas Party – Food Trucks in the Courtyard a Great Treat! On December 9th, the Employee’s Association of Menno Home and Apartments brought in food trucks for their members to enjoy as they couldn’t host a Christmas Party this year. The Eastern European Slavic Rolls from the Slavic Rolls truck were amazing and […]
Thank You Purdy’s Elves!
A big THANK YOU to the Purdy’s Elves for putting together the Purdy’s Chocolate order this year!
Hymn Stories – May 2024
/in Important Update, NewsFew hymns paint such a vivd picture of God’s love as this one by Samuel Trevor Francis. Find out more about the hymn, O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus, and how its author experienced the mercy of God.
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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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Hymn 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.
Stop and Think – Managing Your Mood
/in News, Not Myself TodayCORky’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 […]
Hymn 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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