Ji-gaabiikwe - iEmergence
Anishnaabe name meaning ‘Where the Land and Water Meet Woman.’ Her colonial name is Diane Campeau. She is a nakawe-iniikwe (Saulteaux woman), nêhiya-iskwe (Cree woman), and Metis woman and is a registered member of the Yellow Quill First Nation, a signatory of Treaty 4. She is the mother of N’baagiizho (The Moon Crossing the Night Sky While I am Sleeping), also known as Kenadee. They are currently residing in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Ji-gaabiikwe is a Sixties Scoop survivor and an intergenerational residential school survivor. Reclaiming her cultural traditions is healing for her. She is rediscovering what it means to be an Indigenous woman.
She is the founder of Moccasin Lodge. Moccasin Lodge is passionate about fostering pathways, cultivating relationships, and journeying alongside Indigenous youth, their families, and communities to empower, equip and engage them to rediscover their Creator-given identity and purpose utilizing a holistic Indigenous cultural framework.
Lloyd Letkeman - MB Multiply
Lloyd Letkeman is the Regional Mobilizer for Multiply Network in Central Canada. Lloyd is a certified Kairos Blanket Exercise facilitator. Lloyd is passionate about training up a generation that embraces the holistic Gospel of Jesus in the contexts they find themselves rooted in or called to serve. Lloyd and his wife Carol have been facilitating mission training with Multiply for over 20 years.
Amanda Dodge - MCC SK
Amanda Dodge is the Program Director for Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) Saskatchewan, overseeing its local work in reconciliation, refugee resettlement, community development and more. In addition to her managerial work, she leads community-based justice initiatives about reconciliation, decolonization and anti-racism. Prior to joining MCC in 2017, Amanda practiced poverty law and engaged in systemic advocacy with community legal aid offices for over 12 years. Amanda has a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Regina, a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the University of Saskatchewan, and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard University.
Randy Klassen - MCC SK
Randy Klassen is the Indigenous Neighbours Coordinator, Church Engagement Associate, MCC Saskatchewan
Randy has served with MCC since 2015, now in the dual roles of Indigenous Neighbours Coordinator and Church Engagement Associate. Prior to that, he served as a pastor, and Bible instructor at Bethany College. He loves how the biblical story gives us windows for seeing, and tools for engaging, our place in Canada’s complex colonial story. In his current role, he aims to be a “reconciliation catalyst.” And as Church Engagement Associate, he is always ready to share the powerful story of MCC’s century-plus of ministry.
Education: MDiv (MB Biblical Seminary, Fresno CA), MA (New Testament, McMaster U), BA (Anthropology, U Winnipeg), BRS (Biblical studies, MB Bible College, Winnipeg).
Jared Siebert - New Leaf Network
Jared Siebert serves in many capacities in the Canadian Church. He founded an organization of missionary church leaders called the New Leaf Network and is one of Canada’s leading inter-denominational church planter trainers. But church planting isn’t the only kind of experience he has garnered. In his ministry roles Jared has had the opportunity to work with churches of all kinds from all over Canada. He has acted as a consultant in churches large and small, urban and rural, and new and long established. He has written a discipleship curriculum, a handbook on church planter training, and a Church Health workbook called the LifePlan. As a sought after speaker and consultant Jared is uniquely able to draw insight and inspiration from a variety of sources and bring that to the table as he helps churches move toward unity and the mission of God.
Darryl Dozlaw - Riversdale Neighbours church
Darryl Dozlaw is a multi-vocational minister who strives to be an meaningful part of as many good stories as he can. Ordained with the Free Methodist Church in Canada, he serves as the founding pastor of the Riversdale Neighbours church in Saskatoon, Treaty 6. However, he also wields a ukulele as he teaches at a local community school, participates in the local music scene as both a fan and an artist and hosts a morning drive show on community radio. Within these many contexts, Darryl seeks out and seizes opportunities to be an agent of reconciliation.
Tim Bratton - Burnt Thicket Theatre
Tim Bratton lives in Saskatoon, SK, along with his wife Amy and their two young sons. With a long habit of getting involved in church plants & startups, Tim currently helps with the teaching and worship at a Free Methodist church plant, Riversdale Neighbours church. Tim is an actor and playwright and serves as the Artistic Associate with Burnt Thicket Theatre. He’s also a care-worker, musician, vinyl record collector and dilettante with a special interest in deconstructing and redeeming the stories of recent church history and Evangelical pop culture.
Louise Buhler - Riversdale Neighbours church
Stephen Waldschmidt - Burnt Thicket Theatre
Stephen grew up in Indonesia and Ohio before moving to Canada to marry his best friend. He works as a director, actor and designer based in Saskatoon with Burnt Thicket Theatre. Stephen holds an interdisciplinary masters degree in fine arts and theology from Regent College and a BFA in drama from University of Calgary. He’s immensely grateful for Kirsten’s support along with their three beloved children.
Learn more about his latest project We Treaty People
Rachael Groat - A Rocha
Susanne Guenther Loewen
Susanne Guenther Loewen is a Mennonite-feminist theologian specializing in questions of peace, violence, suffering, and the cross. She has previously worked as a pastor in the Mennonite church and currently teaches Peace Studies at St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan. When she's not writing or teaching, she's curled up with a good novel or crafting project or out walking her dog with her spouse and two kids.
Dalen Applegate
Dalen Applegate was raised in Lloydminster, Alberta, he now calls Saskatoon home and is working as the Youth Pastor at Lakeview Church. He completed my Bachelor of Arts in Youth Ministry from Briercrest College in 2021 and is working towards his Master of Arts in Peace and Justice through St. Stephen's University.
Heather Peters
Heather Peters (she/her) serves as the Peacebuilding Coordinator for Mennonite Central Committee Saskatchewan. Within this role she focuses on trauma education, restorative justice capacity building, and promoting reconciliation opportunities. She has been a community educator for nearly 20 years around the globe. Heather facilitates classes and workshops in peacebuilding, restorative justice, conflict transformation, abuse response & prevention, and trauma-informed practices. She is an occasional sessional instructor at St. Thomas More College in Peace Studies.
Heather’s education has come from degrees in Human Security and Peacebuilding, International Development, and Theology, as well as many life lessons from living around the world and seeking good, interesting relationships from the people that come into her life.
Anna Block
Anna Block is a white settler who works for Servant Partners, an organization that has chosen to live and work incarnationally in under-resourced Westside neighbourhoods. Anna loves the rootedness to community this way of life gives her. She also enjoys how the community kids love her tiny dog, Memphis.
Luke Bushman
Luke Bushman is a local pastor, who works primarily with youth and children. He grew up in Hepburn Saskatchewan, before going to British Columbia to get a degree in Biblical Studies (and to meet his wife). Luke is passionate about inclusion, asking big questions and connecting with others, which are all things that drew him to his current role as a pastor in the Mennonite Church. In his free time he likes watching movies, reading books, and playing soccer.