“[Volunteering at] Tabor Home has been a fulfilling and expectantly joyful experience for both of us as we have come to love the seniors who live there,” say volunteers Jessica…
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In the 1950s, Jacob J. Klassen, Jacob P. Martens and Abram J. Friesen had a vision to care for elderly people in Abbotsford, B.C. With support from members of Mennonite Brethren churches in Abbotsford, Chilliwack and Yarrow, they founded Tabor Home Society in 1959.
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In 1959, three Mennonite Brethren men spearheaded a project with interested churches from three Fraser Valley communities to provide a personal care home for seniors. They turned the sod for a 39-bed complex in Abbotsford, B.C., a year later, and called it the Tabor Home.