Hello Family,
I’ve just sent this email along to our local MLAs, the Premier, and Health Minister. I’ve asked for opportunities to speak on the phone prior to this and such requests have so far been ignored. I would encourage you to write or call your MLA and press upon them the urgency of their harmful policies that are affecting the people of our community and beyond.
At the same time, let us cry to the Lord for help in a time of need. Let us pray that he might provide, do justice, and help the oppressed.
Hello Premier, Health Minister and local MLAs,
I pastor Fairview Baptist Church in Calgary and the situation among our members is growing more dire. What is the problem? People have been put on unpaid leave or fired because they are not vaccinated or refuse to disclose their personal medical information.
First, this is injustice, plain and simple (my past plea went unanswered (http://www.fairviewbaptistchurch.ca/a-plea-for-justice/).
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Second, the data doesn’t justify these policies. This is from Alberta’s own stats as of January 4, 2022 (https://www.alberta.ca/stats/covid-19-alberta-statistics.htm#vaccine-outcomes).
There are more vaccinated people with COVID in every category. Of course some will object that this is because more people are vaccinated. However, looking at the case rates between the vaccinated and unvaccinated, they are identical. This is not a pandemic of the unvaccinated!
Please, this is time to end this discrimination that is preventing people from feeding their families and losing their homes. As a church we are supporting these people but our resources are not limitless. They need to work. They have skills, they have careers. They have been taken away from their livelihoods and deserve justice.
This should never have happened but it is not too late to take steps now to restore these people to their livelihoods.
Our church prays for you that you might lead with justice and more importantly, that you would know the joy of knowing the one true God who made heaven and earth. God is gracious and merciful through the forgiveness he grants through his Son, Jesus Christ. Fearing the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Do not let the fear of man, fear of losing political capital, or fear of a virus we can’t control keep you in a pattern of foolish choices. God’s word has the answers and I would be happy to speak more about his wisdom applied today.
Tim Stephens
Pastor, Fairview Baptist Church
www.fairviewbaptistchurch.ca
230 – 78 Ave SE, Calgary AB T2H 1C4