200 Kilometres of Grace
Picture this: A warm July evening at the Regina International Airport. Joerlene stands alone at the terminal exit, two weathered suitcases at her feet, watching the sun slowly sink towards the horizon. Her destination, Estevan, lies 200 kilometres southeast – a daunting distance that might as well be a journey to the moon. With no public transit system in Estevan, no ride-sharing services willing to make the long trek, and not knowing a single soul in this vast prairie landscape, she faces a reality many newcomers to rural Canada encounter: isolation by distance. The Estevan Seventh-day Adventist Church understood a
