I was not going to blog today, very busy you know. Alas I was very disturbed by some rumors [at the time] going around on facebook and some personal contact about a proposal to build from Ray Whalen and or the Shining Light Ministry and or True North Aid. Hard to know who is who in the big scheme of fundraising scams these people are involved with.

So I checked out building applications at the town council office. Low and behold Ray Whalen has had an application in to build a large building of around 7,000 sq ft costing some 1.2 million dollars for some time.
It is claimed to be a “community center” by the above mentioned shady bunch of religious zealots.

When I first heard this I thought it can’t be true. Nain has a community hall, a sportsplex, a ball field, a day care center, a community resource center. Nain has many organized activities for youth of all ages in summer and winter. There are activities for the older folk; Nain is like any modern remote community anywhere in Canada.
It certainly is not like these zealots portray it in there misguided PR blurbs and facebook propaganda.

Sure there are kids who don’t fit with these activities and some who just don’t care. But for anyone to imply that kids are starving, unclothed and Nain has the one of the highest suicide rates in Canada is just plain lying through their teeth.

Any way back to the building applications. It gets involved and time is short, suffice to say that Nain council wants Ray Whalen or SLM to pay for all that is involved with having hearings and engineer involvement that comes from their application to acquire 30 feet of land adjoining the lot intended for building zoned “Environmentally Protected ”land and change the zoning to “general use”.

I am also reprinting input from the comments section from what seems like an informed concerned citizen.
You all judge for yourself, my mind is made up.



Its good to see someone commenting on this group. They certainly are someone to be questioned for their motives, practices and beliefs. Many of the comments on some of the various sites are quite blasphemous and certainly insulting for Nainimuit. Circulating in Nain is a paper titled “ Strategic Prayer Strategy” which was read in the Moravian Church in Nain, by a group sponsored by SLM. This prayer’ has certain comments such as ‘I forgive my ancestors for the effect of their sins on my descendants. We confess that my ancestors we involved in the sin of idoltry. We repent the shedding of blood through assisted suicide of the elderly and sick of our ancestors. We repent that my ancestors and I have been involved in the sin of bloodshed. We repent the shedding of blood of the Moravian Missianoaries… more particularly John Ehrhardt..We ask for forgiveness for any illegitimate births that have taken place within our ancestral lineage. We pray that all curses on the land that exist due to our and our ancestors sine be broken and nullified..”

To think this is the same group who are planning on setting up a building in Nain and who are canvassing donations in the outside world is sickening. I hope many residents of Nain read this and become aware of the truths, and to those outside hear the real story. Nain does have problems, but it is also a normal, average, modern community, who does not NEED these people with their distorted views, bribery and beliefs.


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