
Ecumenical faith in an artistic community
When I first came to the Manitou area a half-century ago, I was immediately aware that this was an ecumenical community, a community where people
Al Thorleifson taught senior high Math, Literature, Calculus and Choral Music for almost four decades at Nellie McClung Collegiate in Manitou. He became a lay reader in the Pembina Hills Parishes in the early 1990s and was ordained in 2015. He is also the archivist for the Pembina Manitou Archive, a digital archive which serves South Central Manitoba. Al and Loretta have sung together with friends, Bill and Mariette Howatt, in On the Edge at concerts throughout Southern Manitoba for over 30 years.

When I first came to the Manitou area a half-century ago, I was immediately aware that this was an ecumenical community, a community where people