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Dear Editor:
Should this letter be considered cynical, I apologize in advance, as it is not meant in that vein.
I read the story about Pastor Greg dedicating a church in Mexico in a recent issue of the Rimbey Review, and my mind wandered (at 68, just indulge me).
I have over the years read stories in various newspapers about all kinds of people who do missionary work in Mexico and Africa and other countries, but I have never read about these people dedicating churches etc. in places like Attawapiskat, Ont. or Chateh, Alta. or other more remote (native) settlements in Canada.
Perhaps it’s due to the bad publicity around the residential schools, that missionary work has gone in disrepute here in Canada. (I am not really big on missionary work anyway).
I do remember Father Robert Lemeure, a crusty old priest from France whom we got to know quite well while I was teaching in Tuktoyaktuk, NWT and I came to appreciate the environment of the missionary in the Arctic.
So, to pastor Greg Rathjen I would suggest he spend a year in the Canadian north, it’s a fabulous place.
Edo Deweert
