CFOT has wonderful support from the Prairie Division, and places Cadets in the 5 Winnipeg Corps as well as specialling opportunities in surrounding areas. The Second Year Field Practicum placements are with:
Heritage Park Temple, Southlands Community Church, Weetamah Corps, Weston Community Church, and Winnipeg East Corps.
As well as local Corps, here are a list of ministries we will be accessing for Field Placements in 2008, and a short synopsis of some of the programs they offer. All of these placements are chosen because they offer good experiences and have leadership in place which will positively impact the Cadet’s formation as officers.
Salvation Army Booth Centre
This centre is a residential facility offering shelter and meals to a homeless constituency, and offers residential addictions treatment programs. The placement will be working with the Chaplain, and provides opportunity for spiritual care for those who are at the Booth Centre through midweek chapels, the Free Store, and building relationships with residents.
Community Venture – Salvation Army
This program operates throughout the city, working with people who are mentally challenged, offering residential style living and positive lifestyle training.
Correctional Services Prison Ministry – Salvation Army
Providing spiritual care to inmates at local minimum and medium security prisons, and offering programs in Winnipeg, focusing on positive lifestyles. They also operate a John School, which is a diversion program for first time offenders, and they also assist those who are arrested for prostitution by giving them rides home during a police sweep through a neighbourhood.
Correctional Services Court Ministry – Salvation Army
Providing support and referral services for people going through the Manitoba court system and their families. The placement involves working at the Manitoba Courthouse.
Golden West Centennial Lodge – Salvation Army
This is a residential care facility for seniors, and offers a variety of opportunities for pastoral care, programming, and chapels. You will have an opportunity to learn from very gifted leaders how to work with seniors, but also how to be a pastor to people in your care. You will also have leadership in organizing programs for the residents.
Grace Hospital – Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
Similar to Golden West Lodge, but the constituency for this location is people who are ill. The facility also operates a palliative care facility which offers people who are dying a place to die with dignity. There is a team of chaplains at the hospital, and you will be working with this team in providing spiritual care to a wide variety of people including those who do not profess faith, and those whose faith is different than yours.
House of Hesed – parachurch ministry
This ministry provides transitional housing for people who have HIV/AIDS. The ministry offers a secure residence in a Christian environment. It is about a ministry of presence and being available to develop relationships and be available for the residents in the home. Cadets will also work with residents to prepare meals for the house.
Keenleyside Ministries – Eastview Mennonite Church
Eastview Church has an outreach pastor who is working with a Manitoba Housing Community, providing spiritual teaching on a weekly basis. They have a children’s program which cadets will be given complete leadership over. This initiative is part of a larger vision to become the church in the community, and they are involved in other community building projects to work towards this end.
The leader for this placement a chaplain at the Winnipeg Remand Centre where people charged with offenses wait out their time until they are dealt with through the justice system. He provides positive lifestyle group counseling in the centre, and will involve interested cadets.
Urban Youth Adventures – World Vision/Camp Arnes
• This is a new ministry operating in the North End of Winnipeg, which is known for violence, poverty, and gang related activity. This ministry operates in conjunction with Camp Arnes, and World Vision, and offers programs for youth designed to give them purpose, and to keep them off the streets in an attempt to divert them away from harmful activities and relationships.
Weetamah Ministries Community Outreach – Salvation Army
This ministry supports families in the community who are struggling financially with limited resources. They also have a Friday night ministry/café for the community, bringing people in for a relaxing evening of worship and fun. The ministry also offers a mid-week kid’s program where up to 40 children come for Bible teaching, crafts, and games. There is a First Nations emphasis to the ministries as this is the largest constituency in the neighbourhood.
