GARTH WEHRFRITZ-HANSON has been an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada for thirty years. He has served several congregations as pastor, co-pastor with his wife Reverend Julianna, pulpit supply pastor, and interim pastor in the Alberta and the Territories Synod. He served as a chaplain in the Good Samaritan Society facility of South Ridge Village in Medicine Hat, Alberta, for over eleven years. Reverend Wehrfritz-Hanson is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon (B.A.), and Lutheran Theological Seminary, Saskatoon (M.Div.).