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

 

Upcoming Events 

 Pastors Retreat at Camp Assiniboia: September 24, 9:30am - 3:30pm.

 

Register here.

Guest Speaker: Rev. Dr. John Boopalan, CMU

Theme: On Death and Dying

“Even to your old age I am the one; even when you turn gray I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save” - Isaiah 46:4
Various kinds of loss, including death, surround us. It is the task of a pastor to hold mundane and weighty matters with sacred trust and find ways to evoke love amidst loss. The workshop will tackle this situation by making references to existing cultural frameworks that affect our understanding of death and dying, on the one hand, and the sharing of vignettes (personal and borrowed), on the other, to generate collective thinking about the topic.

Schedule:
9:30am Registration, coffee and snacks
10:00am Worship
10:30am Morning session with John Boopalan
12:30pm Lunch
2:00pm Workshops
3:00pm Closing

 

 

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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