This post first appeared on Cheryl Kinney Matheson’s blog Spiritual By the Lake and is shared with her permission.

Susan Butler-Jones is a retired minister of the United Church of Canada. She founded the Prairie jubilee Program in the late 1990s.

A blessing full of compassion and love by Barb Dean

Dana McWhirter completed the Prairie Jubilee Program in 2012 and has worked as a hospital chaplain and as a spiritual director. She is currently serving on the Prairie Jubilee council.