Tag: funeral

  • If one part suffers…

    News flooded in last week that a congregation in my city had experienced another tragic loss. Mother and daughter, Jennie and Zoe Wiebe, who attended Waterloo North Mennonite, were killed in a car accident, while Jennie’s son Josh was badly injured. Some of you knew them well and are grieving deeply. Others may never have…

  • Offering the gift of non-judgmental listening

    Offering the gift of non-judgmental listening

    Elaine Presnell has presided at around 600 funerals. That’s a number most pastors won’t achieve in a lifetime. But Presnell isn’t an ordinary pastor. For more than 10 years, she has worked for Mourning Glory Funeral Services in Saskatoon as a funeral officiant. Previously, she spent 16 years as a psychiatric nurse at Saskatoon’s Regional…