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MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS One of the many hand cutouts that have been given to Laura Funk to make into a shawl. This one comes from Adeline, 3, who is the daughter of someone Laura went to seminary with. Laura Funk will become the first person ordained as a spiritual director by Mennonite Church Manitoba. Because of restrictions around the pandemic, Funk asked friends and family to submit handprints on fabric that she will make into a shawl as a symbolic way of laying on of hands, which would normally happen at an ordination, where people would stand around the ordained person and reach out a hand to touch her as a symbol of community. See Brenda Suderman story 210618 - Friday, June 18, 2021.