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Dear Team Canada,
2 Corinthians 5: 18- 19 “All this is from God who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ not counting men’s sins against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation.”
As I write this message Canada is at a moment of historic proportions. Today in Winnipeg the federal government through the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions is beginning to hear survivor stories of the First Nations and Inuit peoples that went through the ill fated residential school systems. The century and a half of government and church run school systems, however well intentioned by the founders, became for thousands of people a place of loneliness, separation, segregation and worst of all abuse. The process of “assimilations” became o...