Tag: Saskatoon

  • Friendships that go ‘a little deeper’

    Friendships that go ‘a little deeper’

    Baby Boomers Plus, as its name implies, is a small group for people of a certain age. But it’s a small group with a difference. Three years ago, Claire Ewert Fisher was serving as Mount Royal Mennonite Church’s health minister. She knew that some older congregants were facing significant health challenges, so she invited them…

  • A lifetime of taking pictures

    A lifetime of taking pictures

    Henry Harms once owned a thousand cameras. He still has a closet full of them. They bear witness to a life-long love of photography. Harms was 9 when he bought his first camera—a Baby Brownie Special. As a boy growing up on a farm near Hague, Sask., he would go to Saskatoon to watch ball…

  • Finding the balance between grace and responsibility

    Finding the balance between grace and responsibility

    It’s been eight months since Thomas and Terri Lynn Friesen opened their Saskatoon home as The Vine and Table intentional community. For Terri Lynn, those eight months have been “an interesting season . . . of challenge and great joy.” The Friesens thought their house would be a great home for students, but, because they…