Land Acknowledgment

We acknowledge that we live and worship on the original lands of the Anishinaabe, Ininiwak, Anishininew, Dakota, and the homeland of the Red River Métis. These are treaty lands, covenanted between Indigenous and settler peoples in 1871. We acknowledge that the water we drink each day is sourced from Shoal Lake 40 First Nation. Most of us are settlers. Our ancestors came to these lands only recently and, knowingly or not, benefitted from treaty and the Crown’s dispossession of Indigenous peoples. We recognize that settler colonialism is not in a thing of the past, and that we continue to benefit from the dispossession of host peoples. And so we commit: to learning and listening that centers Indigenous calls to action; to redress the wrongs of past and present by educating ourselves, building relationships of respect, standing with Indigenous peoples, and speaking truth to power. We are treaty people, and through the strength of community and the courage of our God, we seek to honour our living covenant.
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