A fundraising campaign to support the legal fees of Pastor James Coates, who was jailed and charged for allegedly violating Alberta’s COVID-19 rules, has exceeded $41,000 since its launch in February. The campaign, according to organizer John Klassen, was “simply hoping to in some small way be an encouragement to a brother who seemed to be a lone voice.” “Pastor James Coates has been a rare and refreshing voice of courage in these unprecedent[ed] times. He has stood on the word of God faithfully, courageously and uncompromisingly as a man of God when all around him men falter and fail,” wrote Klassen on the GoFundMe page. “Pastor James is facing what not too long ago would have been unheard of,” he said, adding that he has no affiliation with Coates and his church—GraceLife church—in Edmonton.. In December 2020, the Alberta Health Services (AHS) fined GraceLife church $1,200 when it hosted more …