Beautiful Southend!

The bay outside of Fr Marks House

Southend is a village in northern Saskatchewan that is located on the south end of Reindeer lake which is the 9th largest lake in Canada.  It is about a 23 hour drive from Minneapolis. We will be serving the Cree which is a First Nations people of Canada.

The population of this village is approximately 1,000 and about half of them are children under the age of 12. There are a number of facts about this community.  The Cree are special people that value relationships over tasks. In contrast, we are conditioned to be task oriented with goals and accomplishments defining our success. They prefer story telling over reading or being read to. They are a culture that shares everything, and they are not materialistic. The community functions much like an extended family and many homes have multiple generations that live there.   We expect to continue to learn a great deal from them.