By Teresa Falk, National Correspondent WINNIPEG

A Canada Post stamp currently in circulation features a photograph taken by Mennonite Church Canada web servant Grant Klassen. Grant Klassen, MC Canada web servant, displays a Canada Post stamp that features a photograph he took while working for Parks Canada in 1990.

Through the stamp, Klassen is sharing part of God’s beautiful creation with Canadians. “That’s one of the things I really liked about working for Parks Canada,” he says. “I was able to take photographs and show different areas of Canada, some of which are phenomenally interesting.”

The stamp is one in a series of five displaying different geographical areas of Canada. The series, called “Non-denominated Definitives: Flag,” was issued last November and will only be available until the middle of next month. Klassen’s name is shown in small print on the package of stamps.

The photo of Sirmilik National Park on Baffin Island in Nunavut was taken in 1990 while Klassen was working for Parks Canada as an audio-visual producer. It features a fjord with water in the foreground and a glacier tongue stretching into a valley.

“I went up there for a photo survey,” he says. “As we were flying in a helicopter I took the photographs. The pilot took the passenger door off so I could lean out and take photographs.”

Despite being chosen for a Canada Post stamp, Klassen doesn’t feel his photograph is anything special. “Frankly, I don’t think it’s a very good shot,” he says. “However, I am very honoured. I feel very good about it [being chosen].”

Klassen found out about the stamp last December from a fellow photographer. “One of the other photographers who still works for Parks Canada had been contacted by a stamp collector, who wanted the signatures of each of the five photographers [featured in the series of stamps]. So this photographer ‘Googled’ my name and contacted me,” he says.

Through the stamp, Klassen is sharing part of God’s beautiful creation with Canadians. “That’s one of the things I really liked about working for Parks Canada,” he says. “I was able to take photographs and show different areas of Canada, some of which are phenomenally interesting.” –from the Canadian Mennonite, October 2007