Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Good afternoon and welcome back colleagues. Mr. Speaker about 23 years ago a young couple came to the Northwest Territories
to pastor a small church in Hay River. While in Hay River they travelled throughout the north and grew to love the people of the north very much. Their duties also included performing some very important ceremonies, not the least of which, and very important in my life, was the marriage of myself to my husband. Although they moved on to much larger churches in southern Canada, they recently gave up the comforts of home and family here in Canada and now devote their full time life and energies to working to bring hope and humanitarian aid to many parts of the former Soviet Union. I know that they are still northerners at heart and that the experience that they gain here in the north forms a small part of what they now bring to some of the poorest and most needy people of the world. In a country such as Canada, so bountiful and blessed it is wonderful to know that while all of us cannot go, there are people who are still willing to make the sacrifices to fulfil the great commission to go into all the world. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
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