Ryan Dueck lives in southern Alberta, Canada with his wife Naomi and twins Claire and Nicholas. He blogs at Rumblings, and is currently helping to lead a small Mennonite church that seeks to embody the peace, simplicity, and hope of the gospel of Christ in a noisy and conflicted culture. As all good Canadians must, he loves ice hockey, as well as soccer, good books, good coffee, motorcycles, and mountains.
Read MoreVivian Ketchem is from the Wauzhushk Onigum Nation in Treaty 3 territory. A residential school survivor, writer, photographer, and occasional speaker, Viv is an Ikwe woman with a calling to share her Indigenous and Christian belief on a road of healing and reconciliation.
Read MoreJacqui is a Co-Pastor at The Road Church and works as a chaplain at Mount Royal University in Calgary, AB. She is a spiritual director and retreat facilitator with a focus on both contemplative prayer and embodied faith practices. As a native Albertan, she enjoys time exploring the foothills and mountains near Calgary with her husband Brad, their two daughters, and the (way too many) pets they love.
Read MoreXenia Chan Ling-Yee 陳靈兒 is a Ph.D. Candidate (Hebrew Bible/Old Testament) at Regis-St. Michael's College, Toronto School of Theology, University of Toronto. As a former pastor, her scholarly work is informed by the present condition of the Canadian evangelical church, particularly the churches within the Sinophone revivalist tradition in Canada. Her work at present deals with Jeremiah's Confessions.
Read MoreEmily Summach serves as the Pastor of Langham Mennonite Fellowship in Langham, SK. She enjoys conversation, good coffee and checking out new playgrounds with her husband, Taylor, and their two young children.
Read MoreDan Sheffield is a reflective practitioner who has been involved in church planting, community development and Christian formation in Canada, Egypt, South Africa and a few other spots along the way -- over the past 30 years or so. These days he lives in St Catharines, Ontario, with his wife Kathy, where he is lead pastor of Grapeview Church, a multi-ethnic congregation. He is the author of the books The Multicultural Leader and Conversations that Change Us.
Read MoreKathy Stock is a professional singer-songwriter, public speaker, and author. Her book, Moms of Toddlers, Devotions To Go, was published in 2010 and her debut album, Overcome, was released in September 2019. Kathy and her husband, Jason, live in St. John’s, Newfoundland with their two sons, Caden and Preston, and their two cats, Spidercat and Princess Moo Moo
Read MoreAlanna provides communications & systems support for the New Leaf Network. Alanna brings a wide-ranging background to the table; from biomedical research to pastoral care in the areas of spiritual and creative formation. She recently finished an M.Div. in Clinical Counselling at Tyndale and is now working in community mental health.
Read MoreAlicia Wilson lives in community with her sister, brother-in-law and nephew in Hamilton, Ontario. She is the founder of Restoration Project, a non-profit that teaches woodworking to adults with developmental disabilities. She is also the co-founder of a new housing movement called In My Backyard (IMBY for short). Alicia studied at McMaster Divinity College, where she finished her MTS.
Read MoreRohadi is a thought leader on building diverse organizations and communities, church planting, and decolonizing and deconstructing Christianity. He lives in Canada, on Treaty 7 Lands, otherwise known as Calgary. He holds a Business Certificate from Mount Royal College, a BA in Economics from the University of Calgary, and a Master of Divinity from Canadian Theological Seminary.
In the areas of church planting, missional thinking, and church revitalization, he is both a practitioner and thought leader. He has planted two churches including an inner-city multi-ethnic expression called Cypher Church. He has written extensively in the areas of missions and church leadership, calling for new thinking and practices. Some of those ideas can be found in his book, Thrive. Ideas to lead the church in post-Christendom. Discover Rohadi’s latest book, When We Belong. Reclaiming Christianity on the Margins from Herald Press.
His experience includes non-profit work in both governance and organizational development. He is the past-chair of ACT Alberta, one of the largest anti-human trafficking NGOs in Canada. He’s also a director with Mosaic Ministries. Find him online - Website: www.rohadi.com, on Twitter: @rohadi, & Instagram: @rohadi.nagassar
Read MoreDavid, his wife Sarah, and their three beautiful daughters Cassidy (20), Aislinn (18), and Maeve (13) moved to Regina, Saskatchewan in January 2014. David took up the Lead Pastor role at Northview Community Church (FMCiC) where he has been focused on developing a robust discipleship community committed to the mission of God in Argyle Park and surrounding areas. David has a Masters of Divinity from Tyndale Seminary and is currently working on a D.Min at Northeastern Seminary in Rochester, NY.
Read MoreKevin Makins is the founding pastor of Eucharist Church in downtown Hamilton, Ontario. Kevin also performs one-man shows in bars and makes videos for thousands on YouTube. His audience includes the faithful and the skeptical, those hungry to learn, and those who just want to hear a good story. He lives in an old house downtown with his wife, kids, and housemates. Kevin's first book, "Why Would Anyone Go to Church?" released in June 2020.
Read MoreBrandon Laird, MDes RGD, Design Thinker and Innovator. Interested in working with all types of Christ-followers to co-create the present and future church.
Read MoreJason Tripp lives in Sudbury with his beautiful wife Sylvie and their two energetic children Levi and Michaela. He is the Lead Pastor of Valleyview Community Church, an intergenerational, missional faith community exploring what faithfulness to Jesus looks like in post-Christian Canadian suburbia.
Read MoreJana Koh is the pastor and planter of Ecclesia Church in Oshawa, Ontario. She’s been in Oshawa for one year; previously, she worked with a church plant in Seattle, Washington. She is passionate about helping the church connect with the neighbourhood, and empowering believers to love and serve those with whom they live, work, and play. Jana loves music, photography, and baking, and she is wife to Jeremy, and mama to Norah and Rowan.
Read MoreThe Rev. Rob Crosby-Shearer is an Anglican minister - and a church planter with the neo-monastic Emmaus Community and the related Abbey Church in Victoria, BC – as well as Conference Minister with BC Conference of the United Church overseeing new communities where Christian faith is nourished and discipleship practiced.
Read MoreJon Hand is the Leadership Development Pastor for a multi-site church in southern Ontario called The Meeting House. He also is on the launch team for Jesus Collective a new network of like-minded Anabaptish churches and leaders seeking to keep Jesus at the Centre of theology, church, and practice in Post Christian North America. Jon is founding partner in Transformational Coaching hosted by New Leaf Network and has served on the Advisory Council for New Leaf Network. Jon’s passion is helping leaders lead from their own transformation.
Read MoreBeth Carlson-Malena (she/her/hers) and her friend Mark are the founding co-pastors of Open Way, a 2-year-old Vancouver church. Beth also serves as co-Director of Community at Generous Space Ministries, a Canadian non-profit dedicated to dismantling fear, division, and hostility at the intersection of faith, gender, and sexuality. She enjoys science fiction, root beer, and seeing shows with her wife Danice.
Read MoreKeitha Ogbogu is the lead pastor at West Springs Church in Calgary, Alberta. A former teacher, she is passionate about the power of mentorship and especially enjoys encouraging young men and women who are called to preach, to speak and to lead. Her pastoral work has affirmed her love for the nations, her pursuit of justice and, of course, her call to preach. She believes that the church holds the potential to participate in the transformation of neighbourhoods, cities and individuals when we get it right. She is married to Cyril and together they are raising three black princes, Samuel, Emmanuel and Ezra.
Read MoreKristen Loney is a third-year undergrad student at Columbia Bible College in Abbotsford, BC. She works as a part-time barista at a local cafe and loves learning new things whenever she can.
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