Taking a step back into time in Steinbach Manitoba...
Lots of childhood memories of Sundays spent in the Mennonite Village of Steinbach (during our three year posting to Winnipeg). Mom and Dad would load all four of us kids into the car after the Sunday church service at Calgary Temple and take us on a mini adventure to Steinbach, where we would run around wild and free in the endless fields (Scoring free horse and buggy rides pretending we were Cowboys & Indians, bringing along our toy guns, lassos, plastic bow & arrows, the Steinbach Mennonites breathed a sigh of relief everytime we packed it in for the afternoon to head back to Winnipeg).
I think Mom secretly wished she was a Mennonite and lived a simple existence, she has always had a fondness for their way of life.
Almost 40 years later, going back to this ole' stomping ground, the fields appear smaller than they used to be, Mennonites more modern than they used to be, and the horse and buggy rides not as grand as they used to be.
However the fields are all still there, the Mennonites have not sold out and still have their undeveloped land (albeit I noticed with the aid of a few corporate sponsors whose logos were displayed big & bold on side boards) and the horse and buggy rides are still free...
Grateful for our Winnipeg years and the grounding gained there, my faith and value system I attribute to those Sundays of our early years!
Thanks Mom, thanks Dad
Here's to keeping the "main thing the main thing"
xo
#Mennonite #MennoniteVillage #Steinbach #Manitoba #travel #adventures
Lots of childhood memories of Sundays spent in the Mennonite Village of Steinbach (during our three year posting to Winnipeg). Mom and Dad would load all four of us kids into the car after the Sunday church service at Calgary Temple and take us on a mini adventure to Steinbach, where we would run around wild and free in the endless fields (Scoring free horse and buggy rides pretending we were Cowboys & Indians, bringing along our toy guns, lassos, plastic bow & arrows, the Steinbach Mennonites breathed a sigh of relief everytime we packed it in for the afternoon to head back to Winnipeg).
I think Mom secretly wished she was a Mennonite and lived a simple existence, she has always had a fondness for their way of life.
Almost 40 years later, going back to this ole' stomping ground, the fields appear smaller than they used to be, Mennonites more modern than they used to be, and the horse and buggy rides not as grand as they used to be.
However the fields are all still there, the Mennonites have not sold out and still have their undeveloped land (albeit I noticed with the aid of a few corporate sponsors whose logos were displayed big & bold on side boards) and the horse and buggy rides are still free...
Grateful for our Winnipeg years and the grounding gained there, my faith and value system I attribute to those Sundays of our early years!
Thanks Mom, thanks Dad
Here's to keeping the "main thing the main thing"
xo
#Mennonite #MennoniteVillage #Steinbach #Manitoba #travel #adventures
Window of Mennonite house with Germanium
Horse & Buggy Rides are still Free
Windmill Still Stands...
Outside Looking In...
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