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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Pick up your copy of the Menno Place 2024 Hymn Stories Calendar!
The much-anticipated and much-loved calendar is now available for you to enjoy. Please pick up your copy from our visitation hosts!
Blue Christmas Service – When Christmas Hurts – Dec 19th at 10am – Hospital Chapel
You are invited to join our chaplains for a Blue Christmas – When Christmas Hurts
Tuesday, December 19th at 10am – Menno Hospital Chapel
A service for those who are grieving loss, such as the death of a loved one, the end of a marriage or the experience of moving a loved one into care.
This will be a quiet, reflective space for grieving and reaffirming trust in a loving God.
This is a service of remembrance and hope. When we are grieving and dealing with loss, Christmas can be one of the most difficult and lonely seasons, regardless of whether that loss was recent or remembered over the years.
This service offers you permission and space to acknowledge your sadness and loss.
Our hope is that you will find comfort and peace in being together with others who are also grieving, receive a sense of hope for the future and a renewed sense of trust in a God who loves you.
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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Congratulate Menno Place on 70 Years of Compassionate Christian Care for All
For 70 years Menno Place has provided hope, dignity, and compassion to more than 25,000 seniors in Abbotsford. At Menno Place it’s not just about a bed, food, and medical care. It’s about the incredible staff, volunteers, and donors who make it possible for our 700 residents to live their best lives.
Use the form below to share your greetings as we celebrate this milestone and look forward to another 70 years of compassionate Christian care for the seniors in our community.
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Christian Encouragement through Advent Readings
Are you looking for Christian encourageme nt as you enter this Christmas season? MB Seminary has created a daily email that provides an uplifting spiritual reading and Scripture made especially for this Advent Christmas season.
Click here to subscribe – MB Seminary Advent Devotional
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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Enhanced Infection Prevention and Control Measures for Respiratory Illness Season
Effective Tuesday, October 3, the BC Ministry of Health is reinstating enhanced infection prevention and control measures for respiratory illness season: COVID, cold, flu
- Medical mask wearing will be required by all health-care workers, volunteers, contractors and visitors in resident areas of health-care facilities, which includes long-term care homes (Menno Home, Menno Hospital) and assisted living residences (Terrace East).
- Medical mask wearing is expected in Independent Living shared common areas, hallways, entrances, lounge spaces and the dining room.
- Visitors are required to wear a medical mask (provided at the entrances) when they are in a common area of the home and when participating in indoor events, gatherings and activities in a communal area of the care home. This includes the dining room and while assisting with meals for their loved one.
- Visitors to IL apartments (Terrace West, Pavilion and Primrose Gardens) who are sick or show symptoms of viral respiratory illness are discouraged from visiting.
- Visitation Hosts will be reinstated at the front entrances to support screening for symptoms of respiratory illnesses, hand out medical masks and to ensure that people sanitize hands before entering.
- All residents in long-term care as well as seniors age 65 and older are included in the priority populations that will be invited to book vaccine appointments as early as October 10, 2023.
The Ministry of Health official news release can be found here.
The Ministry of Health is currently developing a Q&A document that will be shared ahead of the October 3 implementation date. We will share that with you when it becomes available.
