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.
jfriesen@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 (Directors of Leadership Ministries) attends and at times facilitates these pastor groups.  

Upcoming dates:

September 16: Cluster meeting with Chaplains/Spiritual Care providers on Zoom, 12:00

October 9: Winnipeg Cluster hosted by Sargent

October 16: Southern Cluster hosted by Altona Mennonite

November 13: Winnipeg Cluster hosted by Jubilee

November 20: Southern Cluster hosted by Emmanuel

 

Upcoming Events 

 Boundary Seminar - Oct 22 or Nov 1

All credentialed leaders are strongly encouraged to attend one of two boundary training seminars being organized by MC Canada Staff. The seminar will focus on how to tend to the power structures at play in the pastoral vocation. Particular attention will be given to the continued reality of clergy sexual misconduct with the hope of encouraging the building of healthy relationships between pastors and the people they serve.
The Seminars will be held on Zoom, Wednesday October 22 from 6-8pm (with MCEC), and Saturday November 1 from 10am-12pm (with MCEC and MCBC). 

Each seminar will include presentations over Zoom and time for in-person response within each region.
The MCM offices Boardroom will be booked for both dates. We will gather there together, watch the Zoom presentation and then have a time for in-person sharing after that

Register below.

 

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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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