{"id":5355,"date":"2015-11-01T13:37:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T19:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/?p=5355"},"modified":"2015-11-02T13:45:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T19:45:58","slug":"2015-alumni-award-stories-arno-and-lena-fast-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/2015\/2015-alumni-award-stories-arno-and-lena-fast-video\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Alumni Award Stories &#8211; Arno and Lena Fast (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5218\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5218\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ArnoLenaFast.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5218\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ArnoLenaFast-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"Arno and Lena Fast (MBBC \u201855)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arno and Lena Fast (MBBC \u201855)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last year, Arno and Lena Fast (MBBC \u201855) celebrated their 85th birthdays, their 60th wedding anniversary, and 45 years of ministry at Salem Community Bible Church in Winnipeg\u2019s North End. At a time when many are enjoying retirement, the Fasts remain committed to their work at the church.<\/p>\n<p>Salem was close to shutting its doors in 1969 when the Fasts began working there. Since then, the congregation has grown into a thriving, multicultural mix of 100 adults and children. Arno is currently mentoring his 32-year-old grandson into the ministry role at the church. \u201cWe don\u2019t feel we\u2019ve done anything exceptional,\u201d Arno says. \u201cWe just followed the call of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Distinguished Alumni Awards celebrate alumni who, through their lives, embody CMU\u2019s values and mission of service, leadership, and reconciliation in church and society. The awards are presented to alumni from CMU and its predecessor colleges: Canadian Mennonite Bible College (CMBC) and Mennonite Brethren Bible College (MBBC)\/Concord College.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z_wikwsWb0k\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Arno and Lena Fast (MBBC \u201855) celebrated their 85th birthdays, their 60th wedding anniversary, and 45 years of ministry at Salem Community Bible Church in Winnipeg\u2019s North End. At a time when many are enjoying retirement, the Fasts remain committed to their work at the church. Salem was close to shutting its doors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[539,670,452,451,159],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5363,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355\/revisions\/5363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}