I grew up in Southwestern Ontario, farming country, in a place called Waterloo County.

Waterloo County is home to one of the largest population of metanites in the world.

I grew up among metanites, went to school with them.

They're anabaptists, which is one of the oldest Protestant denominations.

That's our smaller number, industrialists, close knit, came to North America after they

were persecuted in Russia.

The joke is, they basically Jews who farm.

So I went home to see my parents not long ago, and everyone was talking about something

online called an open letter to my beloved church.

It's a long letter touching on family and devotion in faith and scripture.

A metanite pastor wrote it.

Actually I should say an ex-menonite pastor.

A man named Chester Wenger.

I read the letter, and I was so taken by it that I went to see him.

Drought four and a half hours on one cold January day.

Oh my, just every day, three, four, five people say, we just like your letter, we like

your letter, we like your letter.

The letter has been read more than 230,000 times on metanite.org.

To put that in perspective, there are only 800,000 metanites in North America.

It's been liked and shared all over Facebook, hashtag Chester Wenger is a thing.

I asked Wenger if he anticipated any of his words going viral.

I didn't even know what viral meant.

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