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

 

Board Members

Arden Andreas 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

 

Jeromey Martini 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

 

 

Chelsy Stevens Chelsy Stevens was born and raised in rural Alberta.  After years of studying and serving in churches in Edmonton and Toronto, she began to feel a call back to rural ministry after participating in an internship in rural Belize, Central America, in 2008.  After a couple more years in urban ministry, Chelsy became the rector of St.Mary’s, Vegreville, and St. Matthew’s, Viking in the eastern part of the Anglican Diocese of Edmonton.  Chelsy finds the experience of rural ministry to be one of freshness and joy as she witnesses God at work in His communities and is given the opportunity to be incarnational in her ministry among the church in rural Alberta.  Chelsy is engaged to be married to Jordan in June 2013. E-mail

 

Don Unger is a retired 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