Leadership Ministries

MCM’s Leadership Ministries staff and programs resource our spiritual leaders and congregations to develop skilled and well-supported leaders.

Leadership Ministries supports pastors by:

  • offering individual pastoral care
  • providing opportunities for continuing education, seminars and workshops designed to strengthen and stretch ministry
  • facilitating and leading monthly pastors’ cluster meetings in each of four regions within MCM

Appropriate resources and workshops are also made available to those involved in other aspects of congregational leadership.

Leadership Ministries also assists congregations in:

  • encouraging and calling persons to ministry
  • pastoral searches
  • pastor-congregation relationships
  • credentialing persons for ministry
  • pastoral reviews
  • providing assistance in situations of mediation and conflict resolution

For more information about these programs contact Jeff Friesen or Karen Schellenberg.
jfriesen@mennochurch.mb.ca
kschellenberg@mennochurch.mb.ca

 

MCM Cluster Groups

For those who might be new to MCM, the congregations that make up MCM are divided into 4 Cluster Groups.  These groups usually meet monthly.  The primary objective of these Cluster Groups is to provide a space where pastors can support and care for each other.  Jeff Friesen and Karen Schellenberg (Co-Directors of Leadership Ministries) attend and at times facilitate these pastor groups.  

Upcoming Cluster meetings

  • Jan 14, 2025 - 1- 2 p.m. - Spiritual Care and Directors Zoom Meeting Mennonite Church Manitoba is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.  Meeting ID: 857 8204 4271Passcode: 939964
  • Jan 15, 2025 - 9:30 - 12:30 - All Pastors Learning Event - Residential School Museum 5000 Crescent Rd.W. Pot luck Lunch to follow in Oakville - 425-5th Ave. (Home of Melanie and Jonathan Neufeld) Please bring sandwiches, veggies, fruit or sweet treats - Soup will be provided.
    Please RSVP to kschellenberg@mennochurch.mb.ca by Jan 10, 2025 (There is no cost -- we just need to know how many to expect)
  • Feb 10 - 11, 2025 - CMU ReNew. 11:30 a.m. - Lunch provided for and served in he MCM Lunch Room (600 Shaftesbury - downstairs)
  • Feb 28 - Leadership Day - Speaker - John D. Roth - in Steinbach - location TBA
  • Feb 28-Mar 1 - MCM Delegate Sessions — Grace Mennonite Steinbach
  • March 4 - Eastern Cluster (details TBA)
  • March 5 - Winnipeg Cluster (details TBA)
  • March 12 - South Cluster (details TBA)

 

Upcoming Events 

Feb 10 - 11 ReNew

‘Reckoning With Power': Discerning God's Power, Navigating Worldly Power in Leadership, Conflict, and Mission
Amidst the revelations of abuse of power, political division, and church conflicts, we have a moment to carefully consider the question of power—the way God's power in Christ is radically different than worldly power, and how we might discern and make space for God's power in Christ to be at work in the leadership and shaping of church and mission. David Fitch comes to lead us through these questions at renew 2025.

For more info and to register/rsvp:

www.cmu.ca/renew

Leadership Bursaries

Mennonite Church Manitoba makes annual bursaries available for those interested in theological studies with pastoral leadership or missionary goals.

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