Centre for Rural Community Leadership and Ministry

Board Executive

Dr. Nettie Wiebe, Chair of the CiRCLe M board, is Professor of Church and Society at St. Andrew’s College in Saskatoon. A farmer and former national farm leader, she participates actively in public discourse on farming, food, environment, trade and women’s issues. Her publications include “Current Fortunes of the Rural” in The Prairie Agrarian Movement Revisited and regular columns in The Western Producer. E-mail

Rev. Dr. Cameron Harder, Executive Director of CiRCLe M, is also Associate Professor of SystematicTheology and Director of Contextual Education at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Saskatoon. In his doctoral work, Cam studied the effect of churches and religious belief on the “shame” experience of farm bankruptcy. He also visited and studied rural institutes around the world during his 2003-2004 sabbatical year. Currently, he is writing a book on the church’s role in community development and contributing to the Western Producer. E-mail

Tony Haynes, Board Treasurer, is Coordinator for Peace and Justice Work for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon. He is also on the executive of the Kairos Plura Anti Poverty Saskatchewan Network and represents the diocese as Chair of the Board for the Community First Development Fund of Saskatoon. Both organizations provide financing for community economic development projects that help reduce poverty. E-mail

 

Board Members

Wayne Hove is General Manager for Community Futures Big Country in Drumheller, Alberta. In addition, he is Alberta Chair of Business Retention and Expansion International, a board member of the Canadian Badlands Passion Play, a member of the Product Development Committee, Canadian Badlands Ltd and the Regional Economic Development Task Force. E-mail

Janice Bray Noonan has deep prairie roots in the United Church of Canada. She currently resides in Saskatoon with her husband and three small children. She is a member of the United Church Saskatchewan Conference Committee on Internship and Educational Supervision and sees the need for more specialized field training in rural ministry. Janice is a student with the Vancouver School of Theology and hopes through her research to help develop some alternative models for rural ministry. E-mail

Ken Rosaasen is a professor in the Department of Bioresource Policy, Business & Economics at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon and a member of the Board of Directors of the Conservation Learning Centre, an agricultural research and demonstration facility near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He is also a farmer and active member of the Lutheran Church. E-mail

Peter Yeung has served as an Anglican parish priest, prison chaplain, hospital chaplain, and military chaplain across Canada and overseas. He has been an archdeacon for the past 18 years, has extensive experience in rural ministry and, since 2003, has been Prolocutor of the ecclesiastical province of Rupert's Land. He is the Rector of Parkland Parish, a three-point parish in rural Saskatchewan. E-mail

Beth-Marie Murphy is currently an Associate Professor of Pastoral Care and the Director of Field Education at the Anglican Seminary, Emmanuel and St. Chad College at the University of Saskatchewan. Beth-Marie has spent time in the USA and Canada working in ministry  as a Chaplain and various other roles.  E-mail

Don Unger is a Mennonite Pastor in  Mayfair, Glenbush and Rabbit Lake, Saskatchewan. He has also spent time oversease working as a missionary in Nigeria and with his wife Namoi who also serves as a co-paster at their churches in Saskatchewan. E-mail

Janet Kostyna E-mail