CANADA
Vancouver Sun
By Stephane Massinon, Calgary Herald
February 18, 2012
It’s a story that’s haunted Jake for over 30 years.
And in April 2011, the 46-year-old Red Deer man took some paper to a quiet field near his Red Deer home and began to pen a letter to the Canadian Sunday School Mission and the Evangelical Free Church of Canada.
By his own admission, his life was in turmoil.
“My life was spinning out of control with personal is-sues,” Jake says. “I had a lot of problems with guilt, violence, shame.”
It was a story he once sought to suppress. In the late 1970s, at the age of 14, he was sexually molested by the manager of Camp Silversides, a Christian summer camp run by the Canadian Sunday School Mission.
His abuser, Mark Archibald, was in his mid-20s and Archibald was his pastor, his mentor and his friend when he sexually assaulted him at a Calgary motel.
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