From Alaska-Looee Mike was an Anglican minister in the community of Pangnirtung, located in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut, for 20 years.
Last fall, her husband, Johnny Mike, was elected as a Member of the Nunavut Legislative Assembly, and later selected as Environment Minister.
The couple moved to Iqaluit, Nunavut’s capital city, last month, leaving Pangnirtung without a rector for its Anglican church.
That puts the community among 28 others across the Diocese of the Arctic without a full-time minister.
“Now for the last generation or so there’s been very few ministers in our diocese of the Arctic because our preachers have either retired or passed on,” Mike says.
The Diocese of the Arctic is the Anglican Church of Canada’s largest. It includes Canada’s Northwest Territories, all of Nunavut and the Inuit self-governing region of Nunavik in northern Quebec.
The shortage of ministers means scouting for young recruits who can carry on the work of the church.
More here-
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20140214/arctic-anglicans-looking-england-recruit-ministers
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