Posts Tagged ‘Commission’

Mt. 28:16-20

Today we remember Edmund James Peck, a missionary to the Inuit in Canada for 40 years in the northern Arctic.  His mission service began in the later part of the 19^th Century and continued until he retired to Toronto in 1921.  He died in 1924.

We are told that early in his ministry to the Inuit people he got the feeling that they did not really understand what he was trying to do.  One day he overheard a group of the Inuit talking about him.  “Oh, him, he came down from heaven to save the Inuit.”  He knew that he had not come down from heaven. But from that time on he tried his best to make the last part of what he had heard come true.  He had come to bring the message of Jesus’ saving love to the Inuit people. He tried to make it true.  I think he did.  Read More