(e)mergent Voyageurs

One of my missionary heroes is a fellow YWAMer named Errol Martens. Errol has been serving the people of Greenland for nearly 25 years. While he now lives in Kelowna, BC and frequently travels to Greenland, he and his family lived in Sisimiut for many years. He was also significantly responsible for the Jesus Film to be be dubbed in the Greenlandic language, the first feature film in their own tongue. He has served these beautiful and often forgotten people faithfully since 1984, but it has only been in the last few years that he has seen significant fruit, coming from an unexpected source.

A few years ago Errol met Dr. Clair Schnupp, a counsellor and pilot, who has developed a powerful counselling model for Aboriginal communities (though with application to non-Aboriginal as well). In addition to solving an expensive travel challenge (as Clair flies up to Greenland in his own plane regularly), this model has revolutionize the hearts of the people of Greenland. Both through those who are counselled and the dozens who have been trained in the model, a genuine revolution is taking place in Greenland. It is a true revival- a word I do not use lightly.

If any of you are seeking to incorporate spiritual & emotional healing with missional outreach, I highly recommend you look into this model. If you want to read more about this exciting work in Greenland, check out this article by the International YWAMer here.