Getting to Know Our Team – Angela Ross-Fehr, Manager of Dining Experience

Angela has worked at Menno Place for 12 years already and astounds everyone with her skills and the care she takes in making the dining experience at Menno Place extraordinary.
We asked her a couple fun questions to get to know her better!

Getting to Know Our Team – Dan Janzen, Social Worker

Dan has worked at Menno Place for just over three years. He has 16 years of combined experience working in residential care and as an employment coordinator, assisting individuals with mental health and developmental disabilities with finding and maintaining work in their community. He is an incredible asset at Menno Place.

Today, we asked him a couple questions to get to know him better!

A Christmas in the Summer

As young teens, our top hits were Jeruzalem and ‘Ere zij God’ – Glory to God.
We sang Jeruzalem everywhere -in school, at work, or in our minds while biking, but never in church.
‘Ere zij God,’ Glory to God, on the other hand, we sang in church exclusively, however, only once a year…

Upcoming Events – August 2017

There are lots of exciting things happening in the next month! Check out what’s going on…

Are you in the ‘sandwich generation’?

The sandwich generation is a term first coined by social worker Dorothy Miller in 1981. She was describing adult children who were “sandwiched” between their aging parents and their own maturing children.

Once Again, Menno Place hits a Hole-in-One!

With the sun shining, the balloons up and the ribbon hung, Menno Place gathered for the grand opening of the putting green and lawn bowling alley. As BC’s largest campus of care, with over 700 residents, Menno Place is continually finding new ways to promote healthy and energetic living for seniors. There was an air of childlike excitement, as everyone knew that in just a few minutes they would get to play…

Honour a Loved One

There are 12 brand new, lovely benches at Menno Place.
Donate a bench to honour a loved one…

Grateful Hearts

In the last several months there have been some exciting additions to the Menno Place campus, and we are so thankful…

Pausing to Celebrate and Remember with our Annual Butterfly Release

Menno Place hosted their second annual Butterfly Release Celebration for seniors, families, and staff in the beautifully landscaped courtyard in the center of the 11-acre campus of care in Abbotsford.
Residents, family members, and staff were encouraged to purchase butterflies for release on this very special occasion…

Caring from Our Heart

The children had been sitting with their dying mother for several days. On our first visit Edith and I – along with the family – expected that God would call their mother home any hour.  On our second visit, some three days later, we again sat with the family, expecting God to call her home any moment. After reading Psalm 23 and praying slowly and clearly so their dear mother could hear, one daughter asked, “Pastor Walter, why is death so hard?” …