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E-mail Fr. Kevin or Ask Fr. a question			Fr. Kevin was born May 22 19_ _ in Eston Saskatchewan the second child of Audrey and Andrew Tumback. There were eventually seven children in the family, four girls and three boys, numerous cats, dogs, horses, cows, pigs and a rabbit. Kevin grew up on the farm and did many of the farm boy things, milking cows, cleaning barns and chicken coups, riding horses and playing baseball. As a young person Kevin played baseball and curled. These were his two favourite sports. Kevin also played some football and soccer while at University. Kevin was an altar server, sang in the choir (badly), and was involved in the church. After much homework and hard studies, Kevin graduated from Eston Composite High School and went on to study at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon Campus. After a Year of Engineering and discovering this was not his future, Kevin took a few years off and then went back to School at Medicine Hat College and finally the U of C where he received a Degree in Commerce in Marketing and Personnel.
While in Medicine Hat Kevin received or fell under the care of Uncle Louis and Aunt Katie (food), Stan and Pat Lerner and family (food, love, guidance and someone to wrestle with), and the relatives who carted me off to the Elk's club etc. In Calgary there were less family members around to visit and eat with but life went on. By now Kevin had learned how to cook and also was living in residence where meals were cooked for them. A short stint in marketing proved not to be Kevin's calling so he spent four years working for the Hudson's Bay Company. The Kindest thing the Bay did for Kevin was send him to Banff and make him work on his accounting. Banff was home. The hiking, skiing, fishing (never caught anything to brag about), slo-pitch, all helped to make Banff home. All the time in Banff Kevin's involvement in the Church grew. When Kevin left Banff to go to the seminary, not one of his friends in the slo-pitch league was surprised. What did they know that took Kevin so long to learn? After the Bay, Kevin worked for Altitude Publishing and discovered the world of long hours and the beauty of a picture. After leaving Altitude, Kevin worked for the Giannandrea family of businesses. Vito always allowed time off for Church and making time for Church, and helped in clarifying where his journey was taking him. Kevin left the Giannandrea family to manage the Banff International Hotel. Not everyone gets a contract that reads "if I am not at the Church I will be in the Hotel". After four years at the Hotel it was time to go to the seminary and see if this was where God was calling Kevin to go. All these stops along the way were an education and preparation for the seminary. The years at St. Joseph Seminary/Newman Theological College were filled with joy, grief, sadness, happiness and all the other emotions as God called and Kevin struggled to hear. The greatest struggles revolved around accepting the word's "I have chosen you" and learning not to ask for clarification and a chance to provide his own input. The second struggle was around the word's "better that a millstone be tied around your neck and you be cast into the sea than you lead of these little ones astray". The priesthood is not about power or being in control, rather it is about service and bringing people to God and being accountable for helping and serving God's people. The journey continues.