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Shalom’s newsletter Seedlings is published twice annually (spring and fall).

Fall 2023

Seedlings Spring 2022

Inside this Issue:

  • Stepping Up for Mental Health
  • Walking in Remembrance, Walking in Healing
  • Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy
  • Get to Know Shalom Staff and Board

Click here to read the Fall 2023 Seedlings Newsletter.

Spring 2023

Seedlings Spring 2022

Inside this Issue:

  • 10,000 Steps for Mental Health
  • Pivotal Conversations Over 40 Years
  • A Board Member's Perspective
  • Get to Know Shalom Staff and Board

Click here to read the Spring 2023 Seedlings Newsletter.

Fall 2022

Seedlings Spring 2022

Inside this Issue:

  • 40 Years of Conversations
  • Spirituality and Coming Out
  • Record Breaking 10,000 Steps
  • Get to Know Shalom Staff and Board

Click here to read the Fall 2022 Seedlings Newsletter.

 

Spring 2022

Seedlings Spring 2022

Inside this Issue:

  • Reconnecting at the Shalom Brunch
  • Reconnecting begins within

Click here to read the Spring 2022 Seedlings Newsletter.

Fall 2021

Seedlings Fall 2021

Inside this Issue:

  • A View from Shalom
  • Get to Know Shalom Staff and Board

Click here to read the Fall 2021 Seedlings Newsletter.

Spring 2021

Seedlings Spring 2020

Inside this Issue:

  • Towards a New Normal
  • Get to Know Executive Director Susan Schwartzentruber
  • Saying Shalom to Wanda
  • Moving to Remote Service: Changing Quickly in a Time of Uncertainty
  • Get to Know Shalom Staff and Board

Click here to read the Spring 2021 Seedlings Newsletter.

Fall 2020

Seedlings Fall 2020

Inside this Issue:

  • Executive Director Wanda Wagler-Martin announces resignation
  • Loneliness During COVID
  • Coping with Uncertainty in the Pandemic
  • Shalom Board Updates

Click here to read the Fall 2020 Seedlings Newsletter.

Spring 2020

Seedlings Spring 2020

Inside this Issue:

  • Understanding Anxiety in a Time of Change
  • Self-care and Coping in a Pandemic
  • Get to Know Shalom Staff and Board
  • Shalom COVID-19 Updates

Click here to read the Spring 2020 Seedlings Newsletter.

Spring 2019

Seedlings Fall 2018

Inside this Issue:

  • Celebrating Love: In our relationships, families & friendships
  • Reflections on a half century of counselling by Brian Laverty
  • The Journey of counselling at Shalom

Click here to read the Spring 2019 Seedlings Newsletter.

Fall 2018

Seedlings Fall 2018

Inside this Issue:

  • Shalom says farewell to Karen
  • 10,000 Steps for Shalom
  • Get to Know Shalom
  • Navigating the Holidays
  • Supporting counselling at Shalom

Click here to read the Fall 2018 Seedlings Newsletter.

Spring 2018

Spring 2018 Seedlings Newsletter

Inside this Issue:

  • Shalom celebrating 35 years!
  • Shalom Spring Breakfast
  • Get to Know Shalom
  • Counselling Care Fund: Shalom Partners for Mental Health
  • What inspires you about Shalom?
  • The story of 2017: Responding to the unexpected...

Click here to read the Spring 2018 Seedlings Newsletter.

Fall 2017

Fall 2017 Seedlings Newsletter

Inside this Issue:

  • Loss of a Visionary Man: Ralph Lebold
  • 10,000 Steps for Shalom
  • Get to Know Shalom: Staff, Intern and Board
  • Embracing our Healthy Selves

Click here to read the Fall 2017 Seedlings Newsletter.

Spring 2017

Spring 2017 Seedlings Newsletter

Inside this Issue:

  • Churches and Shalom: Connecting Through Clergy
  • Learning to Ride the Waves: Addressing Anxiety
  • Acknowledging Shalom's Supporters Through Art
  • Hope, Help and Healing: Life Promotion in Action
  • The story of 2016: Making a Difference...

Click here to read the Spring 2017 Seedlings Newsletter.

Fall 2016

Fall 2016 Seedlings Newsletter

Inside this Issue:

  • Taking Steps for Mental Health
  • Learning and Growing: An intern's experience at Shalom by Neil Thomas
  • Encouraging Feedback for Shalom
  • Struggle and Hope: One family's journey with mental illness by Melody Leclair
  • Get to Know Shalom: New Staff and Board Members

Click here to read the Fall 2016 Seedlings Newsletter.

Spring 2016

Spring 2016 Seedlings Newsletter

Inside this Issue:

  • Grand Opening: A Growing Home for Shalom
    2016 Spring Breakfast Invitation
  • The Gift of Resilience by Wanda Wagler-Martin
  • The Story of 2015: Overwhelmed by Goodness
  • You Can Help

Click here to read the Spring 2016 Seedlings Newsletter.

Fall 2015

Fall 2015 Seedlings Newsletter

Inside this Issue:

  • Together we celebrate "A Growing Home for Shalom"
  • Moving back into 9 Avondale
  • Counselling groups at Shalom
  • Living with "Why"?: Support after a suicide loss by Susan Schwartzentruber
  • Board Changes

Click here to read the Fall 2015 Seedlings Newsletter.

Spring 2015

Spring 2015 Seedlings Newsletter

Inside this Issue:

  • Breaking Ground on Shalom's Growing Home
  • Moving Day
  • Understanding Depression by Paula Quarrie
  • A Successful Depression
  • Why Shalom is Growing

Click here to read the Spring 2015 Seedlings Newsletter.

Fall 2014

Fall 2014 Seedlings Newsletter

Inside this Issue:

  • A Growing Home for Shalom!
  • Meet our New Staff
  • The "Bicycle Built for Two" Keeps Rolling Along
  • Reflections on Four Years at Shalom by Brian Hunsberger
  • Thank You MSCU and Members

Click here to read the Fall 2014 Seedlings Newsletter.

Spring 2014

Spring 2014 Seedlings Newsletter

Inside this Issue:

  • The Background Story: "A Bicycle Built for Two"
  • Put a Face to the Name: Shalom's Board of Directors
  • "A Growing Home for Shalom"
  • 2014 Report to Donors Highlights

Click here to read the Spring 2014 Seedlings Newsletter.

Fall 2013

Fall 2013 Seedlings Newsletter

Inside this Issue:

  • The Legacy of Larry Martin
  • A Growing Home for Shalom
  • Shalom: What's In A Name?
  • 30th Anniversary Celebration a Huge Success
  • Pastors Groups Fill Niche

Click here to read the Fall 2013 Seedlings Newsletter.

Spring 2013

 Spring 2013 Seedlings Newsletter

Inside this Issue:

  • Shalom's Strategic Priorities 2013-2017
  • Video to be Launched at 30th Anniversary Event
  • A Brief History of Shalom Counselling in Waterloo by Wanda Wagler-Martin
  • Report to Donors Highlights

Click here to read the Spring 2013 Seedlings Newsletter.

Fall 2012

Fall 2012 Seedlings Newsletter

Inside this Issue:

  • The Legacy of Delphine Martin
  • 30th Anniversary Celebration on April 20, 2013
  • "Mental Illness: The Cost of Doing Nothing"
  • "Light in my Darkness" by Brian Laverty
  • More Shalom News and Events

Click here to read the Fall 2012 Seedlings Newsletter.

Spring 2012

Spring 2012 Seedlings Newsletter

Inside this Issue:

  • Lebold's Vision Continues...
  • Hon. Michael Wilson to speak at Spring Breakfast
  • Pastors groups to be expanded next fall
  • The Wisdom of the Maytag man by Wanda Wagler-Martin
  • Highlights from the Past Year
  • Leave a Legacy Gift through the Partnership Fund

Click here to read the Spring 2012 Seedlings Newsletter.

Fall 2011

Fall 2011 Seedlings Newsletter

Inside this Issue:

  • Former Lieutenant Governor shares experience with mental illness
  • Why we support the work of Shalom by Sandra and John Schiedel
  • Meet the Shalom Board
  • Sweat the small stuff in relationships by Wanda Wagler-Martin
  • Pastors and Counsellors in Consultation groups launched

Click here to read the Fall 2011 Seedlings Newsletter.

Spring 2011

Spring 2011 Seedlings Newsletter

Inside this Issue:

  • "Addictions are among us - what can we do?"
  • "Personal and immediate response" by Eleanor Epp-Stobbe
  • Meet the Shalom staff
  • Love the questions, live the answers: Living meaningful lives by Wanda Wagler-Martin
  • New era at Shalom; mission remains the same
  • Pastors & Counsellors in Consultation group starting in September

Click here to read the Spring 2011 Seedlings Newsletter.