Father Doug Jeffrey received a jarring text at 7:28 a.m. Thursday: It included a picture of a beloved church he pastored for the past three years in flames.
"The text just alerted me to the fact that the church was on fire and that it was mostly destroyed," the Catholic priest said of Our Lady of the Smile church, one of three he administers.
He said the text shocked him, and he thought "No, not our little church."
Now that it's sunk in, that shock has shifted to sadness.
A little more than an hour before that, Meadow Lake RCMP had been called to the church located on Waterhen Lake First Nation, about 200 kilometres north of North Battleford.
The fire was determined to be suspicious in the RCMP's initial investigation, and police have asked anyone with information to contact them.
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