Steve West
July 2 to July 8, 2022
Steve West (PhD) first pastored Madoc Baptist Church from 2004-2012. In 2012 he became the Lead Pastor at Crestwicke Baptist Church in Guelph, where he pastored for over 8 years. In the summer of 2020, God called him back to Madoc. In addition to pastoral ministry, Steve serves as an adjunct professor at both Heritage College and Seminary in Cambridge and Toronto Baptist Seminary. He has preached and taught courses in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. Steve is the author of several books and a frequent contributor to a variety of publications.
Mission of the Week: Slavic Gospel Association
Matthew Little
July 9 to July 15, 2022
The New Brunswick Bible Institute was incorporated with the purpose and objective of establishing a school for the training of young men and women in a thorough and practical knowledge of the Bible and to meet the needs of all the various evangelical bodies for trained workers in the Maritime Provinces in particular, and home and foreign work in general.
We believe that the New Brunswick Bible Institute should ever be a school where the Word of God is taught, practiced and honoured. The school should remain…
Solid in discipline. Spiritual in outlook. Missionary in outreach. Simple in faith and practice.
“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” (II Tim. 2:15)
Mission of the Week: Bible League Canada
Ed Fontaine
July 16 to July 22, 2022
Dr. Ed Fontaine is the lead pastor at Springvale Church in Stouffville ON.
Ed has his BA, Masters of Theology (ThM) and a Doctorate (DMin)
He served as an Associate Pastor for five years in Huntsville before he was Lead Pastor for 16 years in Strathroy, ON. Ed is now in his 11th year at Springvale.
Ed is a visionary leader who gets excited about seeing growth and development in his staff. He is very hands-on and comes alongside in his approach to leading his team. Ed’s preaching style is current and relevant and frequently peppered with challenges to his congregation to keep pressing toward a higher goal and never to settle for just his word on the matter but to dig deeper and find out for themselves.
Ed and his wife Crystal have been blessed to raise 3 great young men, Dallas, Denver and Brett and have two wonderful daughters in law, Rachael and Kendal. They are so pleased to get to spend as much time as possible with their 3 out of province grandchildren.
Mission of the Week: Youth Unlimited Kawartha
Benji Devadason
July 23 to July 29, 2022
Benjamin Devadason was born and raised in Sri Lanka in a fine Christian home and later attended an evangelical church in Colombo, where he was privileged to hear the Gospel message. However, it was only when Benji turned 20 years of age that he responded to the claims of Christ upon his life. From 1973 to 1985, Benji served at his local church, in the areas of evangelism, discipleship, preaching, teaching, and youth work. He also helped ministries such as Youth for Christ, Back to the Bible and Hospital Christian Fellowship. Due to the ongoing civil war in Sri Lanka, Benji and wife, Indranee migrated to Canada, where they both became members of a Baptist Church. It was here that Benji was ordained as a Pastor by the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in 1987. Together, Benji and his wife pioneered a youth network among the Sri Lankan people which currently runs two retreats annually. They planted a Sri Lankan church in Montreal, assisted four churches in the GTA with teaching, and an outreach ministry in the Mississauga and Hamilton areas. Benji is also involved in Prison ministries in both the Toronto east and west detention centers where over 500 inmates have been ministered to in the past eight years. He currently serves with SIM on their Culture Connexions team (CCX) and is a sought-after speaker having ministered at conferences in Ghana, Nigeria, India, Kenya and Sri Lanka. Benji also conducts evangelism seminars for churches and trains missionary candidates in outreach to Hindus, Muslims and Buddhists.
Mission of the Week: SIM Canada
Finu Iupe
July 30 to August 5, 2022
Finu Iype serves as the Regional Director for Church planting for Village Church in Ontario. Village Church is a multisite church with a mission to see people transformed into fully devoted followers of Jesus! Finu has been involved in global evangelism, and church development ministry, and has held Pastor’s conferences and mass evangelism campaigns in over 20 nations. Finu has coached and consulted on church revitalization and led annual gospel training events like GO Conference, GO United YA Conference, and GO Lead Pastor workshops in the Greater Toronto Area. Finu is married to Tresha and together they have two young daughters, Lauren and Catherine.
Mission of the Week: EQUIP Leadership Canada
Tim Whitehead
August 6 to August 12, 2022
Rev. Tim Whitehead is the Executive Director of Galcom International, partnering with missionaries around the world supplying them with radio broadcasting equipment and solar-powered fix-tuned radios and audio Bibles so they can expand their reach and multiply their impact. Tim is also the host of the weekly Mission Compass radio show heard on stations across Canada encouraging Christians to get involved in the Great Commission “right where they are”. Tim and wife Melody have 5 children and serve at their home church downtown Hamilton where Melody leads the outreach to the city’s homeless.
Mission of the Week: GALCOM
Ron Gannett
August 13 to August 19, 2022
After investing over 40 years in pastoral ministry, Ron and Susie have much to share from their passions, successes and failures. Whether you are a church member or leader, you will discover an idea to enhance your ministry.
Mission of the Week: Christians for Trent
Dr. George Murray
August 20 to August 26, 2022
George Murray is a missionary at heart. He and his wife, Annette, along with their four children, were engaged in pioneer evangelism and church planting for 13 years in the spiritually needy country of Italy. For the next 17 years, he directed two missionary organizations: Bible Christian Union (330 missionaries in 14 countries of Europe) and The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM, with 1,100 missionaries in 42 countries worldwide).
Following his leadership and experience in the field of missions, he assumed the leadership of Columbia International University (CIU) in Columbia, South Carolina, first as CIU’s President (2000 – 2007), and then as CIU’s Chancellor (2007-2017). Columbia International University specializes in training people for Great Commission service around the world. George has travelled and ministered all across the United States of America and in 83 other countries.
He has been happily married to Annette since 1969, and their four children (all married) have blessed them with nine grandchildren (8 boys and 1 girl). George is a graduate of CIU (B.A., 1967; M.A., 1981) and Trinity International University (D.Miss, 1995). Annette is a graduate of CIU (B.A., 1969) and Biblical Theological Seminary (M.A. in Theology/Counseling, 1995). George loves good music (all genres), reading, hiking, fishing, and playing tennis.
Mission of the Week: Mission Prep
Dan and Leta Vos
August 27 to September 2, 2022
Dan
I have had quite an upbringing. My parents began a home for intellectually and physically disabled children. My brothers, sisters and I were all involved with this work, often encountering unique life situations. After graduating from university, I worked with young offenders while working with the probation office in Kitchener. I spent some years working with my wife Leta, in the Christian Camping ministry, giving us great insight about the value of Christian camps. I also spent 20 plus years teaching a life skill class with the public-school board. This was fulfilling work, empowering, and encouraging the students.
Leta
I have spent the past 45 years working with people with disabilities in a variety of settings; group homes, institutions, summer camps, Special Olympics, sunday school, and in education. Most recently, I worked with the Upper Grand District School Board as a Life Skills Classroom Teacher and a Special Education Consultant. I feel my mission in life is to help others develop the skills that will help them be as independent as they can be and contribute to their communities. Also, I have been involved as a Women’s Ministry guest speaker over the years, and with Dan in Christian camping ministry.
Mission of the Week: Christian Horizons
Jody Cross
July 2
Dr. Jody Cross is a Worship Pastor, recording artist and worship leadership consultant. Jody’s heart is to equip worship leaders to lead like Jesus and to help congregations experience the life-transforming presence of God in corporate worship.
Luke Langman
July 9
Luke Langman lives and breathes the family farm with Heidi and four junior farmers. He is
equally passionate about Christian music and the impact it has on people.
After travelling on a missions trip to Honduras for a one-year internship with World Vision
where he worked with rural farmers, his passion for music kicked in.
His first album was “My Song and My Salvation” which he recorded himself, with $200 worth
of equipment in a spare room. From his EP “Change The World” was quickly added on Christian
radio across Canada.
In 2008 Luke released his 2nd full length album “Over the Sun” which was nominated for a GMA
Canada Covenant Award for Rock Album of the Year and received radio airplay across Canada.
He has been featured on 100 Huntley Street and was the support act for Lincoln Brewster at the
LIFE 100.3 tenth anniversary party.
Luke’s 2014 release was “Something Real”. All eleven songs were written by Luke and produced
by Carmon Barry (Allen Froese, Toronto Mass Choir, 3 Junos, American Gold Record) “Joy”,
“In The Shadow of the Cross”, “Something Real”, “Unsearchable” and “Wonders of Our God”
have been released as singles.
A contemporary version of “Silent Night” was produced by Marcel Preston and released to
Christian radio in 2015. It was nominated for Seasonal Song of the Year and “Unsearchable”
was nominated for Rock Song of the Year at the 2016 Covenant Awards.
On April 24, 2017, “Bridges” was released as a single. It was written by Luke and produced by
Marcel Preston, and accompanied by a music video directed by Terry Molinaro. The song was
nominated for a Covenant Award by the Gospel Music Association of Canada.
On July 19, 2017, “Come and See” was released as a single, with an accompanying lyric video.
In 2018, Luke was nominated for Gospel Song of the Year by the Canadian Gospel Association
for “The Gospel Medley”, produced by Andrew Horrocks.
“Every Word You Say” was released on February 1, 2019. Brian Doerksen provided lead vocals
on the chorus. The song was produced by Marcel Preston.
“Can’t Escape” was released July 1, 2019, co-written with Ian Eskelin, Barry Weeks and Scott
Jackson and recorded in Nashville by Eskelin. The follow-up single “Beyond” was released on
January 1, 2020.
The album “Words I Left Unsaid” was released August 17, 2019. It is a compilation of all the
radio singles as well as both Christmas songs released since “Something Real” in 2014.
At the 2020 Covenant Awards held online due to Covid 19. Luke’s songs were nominated for
three awards – Inspirational Song of the Year for “Every Word You Say”, Pop Song of the Year
for “Can’t Escape” and Seasonal Song of the Year for “Let’s Go Christmas Caroling.”
Luke Langman is managed by Scott Jackson, the Founder and President Emeritus of LIFE 100.3
in Barrie.
Luke continues to lead worship at Faith Evangelical Missionary Church in Wasaga Beach, is
father of four and married to Heidi.
Ashley van der Walt
July 16
Ashley was born in South Africa, and currently lives in Canada. Ashley is a husband to his wife Eugenie, and they have two wonderful kids. Ashley is a music & arts director at Springvale Church where he serves weekly, leading the congregation in worship, but also oversees the production side of filming and editting the sermon videos. Ashley attained his Bth Degree in Theology from the South African Theological Seminary, and has also attained his diploma in Audio Post Production from the Academy of Sound Engineering in South Africa. Ashley became an apologist in 2020, and has since started the initiative, Basement Apologetics, and is currently working on his book titled “Becoming a Social Apologist”.
Bob Cates (Award Winning Comedian)
July 29
In high school, I was inspired by a juggling classmate and taught myself to juggle with tennis balls. I practiced hard, learning advanced juggling, unicycling, balancing skills and performance techniques. My passion for performing and the art of juggling continued to develop during my 5 years of post-secondary education, earning a diploma from the Baptist Leadership Education Centre in Toronto and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McMaster University. After university, I volunteered for seven months in Lithuania with IFES, the European version of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship.
Following my return to Canada in 1995, I began performing full-time. In the 1990s, I performed at many fairs, festivals and private events, as well as at every major Busking Festival in Canada. In 2000, I started performing on cruise ships 20 weeks a year for Holland America, Disney, Cunard, Royal Caribbean, Princess and Celebrity. I continue to make a living today in part with headline performances on cruise ships. But most of my performances now are for corporate, association and gala special events, as well as at church and ministry events.
Kellen Jones
July 30
Steve & Shelley Meed
August 13
Yawan Ayomi
August 20
David Wesley
September 3
David Wesley has been pushing the boundaries of music, worship, and technology on YouTube for over a decade. His one-man-choir and multi-track instrumental videos have racked up over 27 million views and 200,000 subscribers, in addition to airplay on music streaming services and Christian radio. In 2016, he started the David Wesley Virtual Choir, which has since grown to hundreds of singers from dozens of countries. In the real world, David has been involved in local church worship ministry for over 20 years, with opportunities to minister at retreats, conferences and camps in Canada and the United States. 