Devotional – Sunder Krishnan
- Please see pdf attached. Pages 1 to 16
Summer Team Announcements – Kaj Wigston
- Summer Team will be hosting the Huddles.
- Movember is a month where men grow mustaches to raise awareness and funds for men's physical and mental health.
- I'm challenging myself to talk to three individual men to chat about how they are doing. I'd like to challenge you to do the same.
- I'd also like to encourage you to use your benefits. We have great benefits in areas like massage and counselling. Make sure you have some self care in place.
- Zoe O'Neill has joined the team. We're excited for her to be overseeing Exceptionalities as well as the CEO Program.
- Ministry Update:
- We have bible studies running across Ontario, BC and even Northern Ireland!
- We have a lot of great leaders that have stepped up and are hosting and leading the studies. It's a great way for MW to support the staff year round in their spiritual growth as well as stay connected. It's great for recruitment as well.
- Please join me in praying for the groups.
HR Announcements: Leslie Brushett
- This week is our Summer job launch! Soft launch is Wednesday but the actual promotion and recruitment initiatives will be on Friday, November 18th.
- We launch Spring 2023, Summer 2023, Fall 2023 and Winter/Spring 2024 jobs. We post a year's worth of jobs so that when people go to the site they can see that working here for a whole year is an option for them.
- The HR team has worked really hard to get everything ready, from job descriptions, to CTree, to recruitment emails and everything in between. Thank you.
- Please pray that we get a lot of applications for next year!
- We are also hiring for the Winter season. We are doing pretty well for host instructors, but are still needing kitchen service staff, maintenance staff and ropes.
- We also have posted the Assistant Dining Room Manager position.
- This year's Annual Retreat. Only 3 weeks away!
- Guelph – from Dec 5th to the 7th. Arrival is at 11:30am and we will end with having lunch together on Wednesday.
- If you could please email Diane any special diet needs you have so we can pass that along to Guelph.
- Staff Awards – please nominate your peers. Click HERE to nominate someone deserving at MW. Please make sure you write down why you are nominating them.
- For the employee of the year, please email Chris Tompkins with your reasons why.
- We have decided this year we are going to be buying gifts for teens in Bracebridge through the Salvation army. We are asking each of us to donate $20 towards a gift and then MW will match that donation. You will be put in groups of 5 to go shopping together and so you will have $200 to spend on a gift.
- We will be hosting the Grammy's this year at the Retreat. We are asking that you either come dressed up like you are going to an awards banquet OR you can come dressed as your favourite musical artist. Feel free to coordinate with your friends. We are also looking for some karaoke lovers who would be willing to participate in the event itself. The Bit Boys that will be hosting the evening for us. Please email Leslie if you're willing to help make the Grammy's a success.
Wrap up – Chris Tompkins
- Year end awards, I'd like to encourage you to recognize your peers
- We usually only get 25% of the staff nominate people for their
- We are landing the plane for the year. SLT Annual, then the retreat, then Department annuals and getting ready for the 2023 year.
- CEO Trip next March with Live Different to the Dominican Republic. We're excited to partner with them. We have approximately 30 CEO's going in 2023.
- Live Different offered us a free planning retreat at the Dominican. Our SLT retreat is going to the DR to do our 2024 Planning Retreat this week. We have to have all the details for 2024 by April of 2023…so we need to do advanced planning in order to be ready.
- While we are gone, John is overall in charge in Chris's absence. You can email him or text/call him. You can also email Christina to be in touch with him
- Bob will be in charge of Operations. Hannah is in charge this week of Program and Steph is in charge on the weekend.
Have a great day!
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Worship-Sunder-Krishnan.pdf