Paul has been serving in pastoral ministry since 2002. He currently serves as Lead Pastor of Grace Valley Church in Dundas, which he and his wife, Jessica, planted in 2016. Paul and Jessica have four adult children.

Ezra serves as Executive Pastor for Multiplication at Northview Community Church in Abbotsford, BC. He oversees Canadian church planting partnerships and global missions for City to City Canada. He is originally from Kenya and lives in Abbotsford with his wife and four kids.

Dwayne Cline served as the Lead Pastor of James North Baptist Church, in downtown Hamilton, for 28 years. He is the part-time Executive Director for TGC Canada as well as the board chair for City to City Canada. Dwayne and Aimee have been blessed with four children. He is currently assisting organizations think through matters of governance, strategic planning, team building and fundraising.

After a career as a business analyst for a publicly traded corporation, R.D. was ordained in the Anglican Diocese of Niagara. He pastors St. George’s Church in Burlington, Ontario, a congregation he has served for 20 years. St. George’s was the third congregation to leave the Anglican Church of Canada and join the still forming Anglican Network in Canada. He was a founding director of ANiC and was made Canon in 2017. R.D. is convinced that in Anglicanism we have been given a globally and historically trustworthy way of being Christian in the modern world. His ministry is marked by a passion to see the gospel preached, in word and sacrament, in a language understood in our culture. R.D. serves as Chairman of The Gospel Coalition Canada and Vice Principal of Ryle Seminary.  He is married to Monica. They are empty-nesters with two grown children, Matthew and Kennedy.

Ewan Goligher MD PhD is Associate Professor of Medicine and Physiology at the University of Toronto. He practices critical care medicine and is regularly involved in helping patients and families make challenging medical decisions near the end of life. He is the author of How Should We Then Die? A Christian Response to Physician-Assisted Death. He serves as an elder at Christ Church Toronto.

Stephanie serves as Director of Women’s Groups at Hope Bible Church Oakville. She is passionate about multi-generational discipleship in the local church, and cares deeply about how biblical and theological truth transforms us to live as Great Commission-people. She is a learner, currently working on a Master’s in Theology.  She is grateful to be a wife of 20 years, and mom to two teens.

Ian J. Vaillancourt (PhD, University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto) serves as Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew and Director of Distance Learning at Heritage Theological Seminary, in Cambridge, ON. He is the author of several books, including Unfolding Redemption: The Heart of the Gospel in the Story of Old Testament History (IVP, 2026); Treasuring the Psalms: How to Read the Songs that Shape the Soul of the Church (IVP, 2023); and The Dawning of Redemption: The Story of the Pentateuch and the Hope of the Gospel (Crossway, 2022).

For many years, Dr. Steve West has faithfully taught and mentored students at Heritage, teaching courses in theology, philosophy, ethics, and apologetics. In addition, West has had an international ministry, preaching, lecturing, and teaching courses in multiple countries on five continents around the world. West has also served his entire adult life as a pastor in the local church. Recently he has pastored at Crestwicke Baptist Church in Guelph, Ontario, and now is at Madoc Baptist Church.

Kimberley McGibbon is the Ministry Centre Director of Send Relief Hamilton, where she leads efforts to care for refugees and vulnerable neighbours in the heart of the city. A pastor’s wife and ministry leader, Kimberley stepped into this role with a desire to see the love of Christ expressed through practical compassion. When the Centre launched in January 2023, it began in a 10×20 office serving just one family. Today, it operates from a larger space and serves over 250 refugees and vulnerable individuals with gospel-rooted care. Kimberley is passionate about hospitality, justice, and equipping the church to meet needs in Jesus’ name. A mother of four adult children, she longs to see Isaiah 61:1–4 lived out in her city and across Canada, bringing good news, healing, and restoration through Christ. 

George is rector of Church of the Messiah in Ottawa, ON and our Canon for Church Planting. He also serves as our leader for the Biblically Grounded Priority.

George studied at the undergraduate and graduate level at Carleton University where he received a degree in Sociology with a minor in Philosophy. He studied Theology and Pastoral Counselling at St. Paul University where he completed an MA in Pastoral Studies.

George was ordained in 1985. For 22 years he served in the Anglican Church of Canada (ACoC). In 2008 his church was the second church in the country to separate from the ACoC and join the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC). George has served in a suburban and in a rural “multi-point” church.

George is blessed to have been married to Louise since 1981. They have 9 children and lots of sons and daughters-in-law and grandchildren.

Jon Cleland (PhD, Knox College, University of Toronto) is Associate Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Heritage College and Seminary and Associate Pastor of Young Adults at Grandview Baptist Church, Kitchener. Jon is married to Laura, and they have two kids, Anna and Judah.

Joshua Tong serves as the Senior Pastor at Sovereign Grace Church in Bradford, Ontario. Before entering full-time ministry, he worked as a criminal defence lawyer in Toronto. Josh also serves as a teacher at Innova Academy in Newmarket and a Council Member with The Gospel Coalition Canada. He and his wife Nina have six wonderful children together.

Jamie Strickland serves as Lead Pastor at West Highland Baptist Church in Hamilton, ON. He is married to Vanessa, and together they have four sons, one of whom is in heaven. He likes to play sports and video games with his sons, and cheer on the Toronto Maple Leafs and Manchester United.

Vanessa is a wife and mom with a heart for walking alongside women, especially in seasons of grief and suffering. After enduring the pain of multiple miscarriages and the heartbreaking loss of her 11-year-old son, Jude, in 2020, she now seeks to encourage others with the hope and comfort found only in Jesus Christ. Vanessa and her husband, Jamie—who serves as the Lead Pastor at West Highland Baptist Church in Hamilton—are raising three sons and are deeply committed to their church community. She’s an avid hiker and a devoted coffee enthusiast.

Wendy has spent the last years raising kids in Toronto with her husband, Kiernan, and making disciples with her local church. At Grace Toronto, she wrote curriculum, taught, and led small communities that walked with one another toward Christ and toward others. She resigned from this work to study and to do other fantastic things like being a Nana, gardening, and writing about terrible passages in the bible that magnify the God who collects our tears, writes our tossings in His book, and transforms the broken-hearted.

Curtis Heaton is the Executive Director of the Canadian Biblical Counselling Coalition (CBCC) and also serves as Student Care & Counselling Coordinator and Adjunct Professor at Heritage College & Seminary in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. He received his Master of Theology degree and Graduate Certificate in Biblical Care & Counselling from Heritage Seminary, and is a certified biblical counsellor through the Association of Biblical Counselors (ABC). Curtis is married to Valerie, and together they have three children.

Alysia Whiteside is a biblical counsellor and owner of Deep Roots Biblical Counselling. She received her Master of Theology degree and Graduate Certificate in Biblical Care & Counselling from Heritage Seminary and is certified through the Association of Biblical Counselors (ABC). She additionally holds Level II certification as a Christian Trauma Care Provider, is a Level One group leader, and serves as a Spiritual Care Provider in long-term care and palliative care. Alysia is passionate about helping others navigate suffering, uncertainty, and unexpected detours through the hope and truth of Scripture. She and her husband, Mike, have two children and a small zoo of rescue animals.

After completing his Master of Divinity and gathering ministry experience in Chicago, Leipzig, and St. Louis, Kyle Hackmann moved to Toronto in 2010 to join Grace Toronto in their mission of seeing churches planted throughout Toronto. Kyle served as the Associate Pastor of Grace Toronto Church for 7 years, while living in the East End. He currently serves as the Pastor of Christ Church Toronto.

Kyle and his wife, Kim, have been married for 20 years. They have four daughters and a Wirehaired Pointing Griffon named Maple.