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Here’s some high points of what you experienced at District Conference (if there) and missed (if not):

Brandon nailed it!

Our keynote speaker, Brandon Cook of Long Beach Christian Fellowship, brought a laser focus to:

  • definitions of discipleship and disciple-making
  • the challenge of preaching a gospel that actually embraces discipleship (not every version of the ‘gospel’ does)
  • the deception of equating information with transformation in our ministries

Brandon further clearly outlined:

  • the ‘what’ of disciple-making is love
  • the ‘who’ are the (open, responsive) ‘people of peace’ the Spirit leads us to
  • the ‘how’ is being with people in such a way that Jesus is revealed
  • the ‘why’ is a recognition of our adoption into the family of God

Daren Wride took Brandon’s content and asked us uncomfortable questions.

Daren’s one of our Transitional Pastors (among other things he does) and I asked Daren to interact with Brandon’s presentation and address us with his reflections on our theme during the business session. Daren was provocative and insightful:

  • What ‘version’ of the gospel are we actually preaching in our churches and is discipleship in our purview when we call people to embrace Jesus?
  • “Very specifically, does our call to people, from the outset, assume that they will be a part of a Christ-centred, Spirit-empowered, missional, disciple-multiplying movement?” (direct quote)
  • What’s the hard part of making disciples, the bottleneck, the primary constraint? Daren’s thesis: The hard part is actually being and living as disciple myself, i.e. actually inhabiting the life and the space that I would call another to join me in as a disciple.
  • What is the church/ministry I serve actually optimized for? Our ministries are optimized for what they are actually accomplishing and producing. It is possible to be optimized for many things other than making disciples (i.e. ‘a quality Sunday worship experience’, etc.).

We honoured Larry.

After almost 19 years, Larry Eide is retiring from the District Office team. His impact on our district through his selfless service, administrative giftings, leadership and godliness has been deep and wide. Larry and Diane live across the U.S. border in Birch Bay and Larry looks forward to some home maintenance and gardening projects and volunteer opportunities in retirement.

We honoured our workers.

We recognized the faithful service of our licensed workers who hit the milestones of 15 years’ service, 25 year’s service, and those in the faithful ministry category. Thank you to all!

Our due diligence went smoothly.

We adopted our audited financial reports, approved our budgets for 2017-18, and received the President’s, DS’s and other reports. Finances are healthy. District Finance Director Aaron Chan was celebrated for his outstanding oversight of our financial resources.

Everyone got elected.

See below for the list of those elected to various positions of service within our district and beyond. And for those who were present as voting delegates, thank you for your encouraging personal support for me in this role for a second term. Sincere thanks to our Nominating Committee which was chaired by Laurence Johnston from Penticton.

DEXCOM
Joel Croswell
Scott Dickie
Kevin Downey
Mark Hutchinson, Treasurer
Walter Huebert
Jeffrey Ku, Secretary
Linda Rae
Steve Schneider
Kyle Trigg
Kyla Ward

General Assembly 2018 Nominating Committee
Jim Heuving
Chris Throness

District Conference 2019 Nominating Committee

Darcy Reimer, Chair
Dave Sattler, Vice-Chair
Collins Kung, Secretary

District Conference 2019 Audit Review Committee
Dwayne Boyd
George Brodie
Jennifer Cho
Dale Clark
Bernie Kent
Matt Mordaunt

KAC showed us how it’s done!

Kamloops Alliance Church hosted Clarity and I’m stumped for superlatives to describe their hospitality. They were over-the-top welcoming, extremely well organized, and very thoughtful in their planning with a keen eye on color, aesthetics, and presentation of food. Hordes of smiling volunteers made it all work. Sincere thanks to Pastor Larry Boss and the entire team!

Hearn brought it home.

President Dave closed conference with a missions’ report on unprecedented responsiveness to the gospel of Jesus (the disciple-making version!) in north Africa and the Middle East. Ok, he didn’t report, he preached… Conference ended with his dedicatory prayer of blessing over the DS and District Executive Committee.

Carmen Kinniburgh

District Children’s Ministry Partner

Children’s ministry involves developing leaders, discipling children and families, exercising creativity, with an emphasis on fun and building relationships that help others to experience God’s love as they are loved by people who know God’s love. Carmen has served in children’s ministries as a volunteer, coordinator, curriculum writer, camp speaker, and pastor. Her desire in ministry and life is to help others (whether they be children, youth, or adults) to hear God’s voice and to experience the freedom and fullness of love found in knowing Jesus and living kingdom lives. Whether your children’s ministry is led by volunteers or a pastoral leader, Carmen would love to connect, build networks, support, resource, pray with, and provide care in whatever areas are needed.

Carmen lives in Vernon with her husband, Jeremy, and their two teenage kids. She loves playing soccer, hiking, camping, and theatre. She and Jeremy have founded two new ministries called Threshold Initiatives and Contributing Pastor.

Terry Ann Opperman

Official Worker

David has served at Lakewood Alliance Church since the fall of 2002, first as an associate, then as Lead Pastor starting in November 2005. David has been on various committees including DEXCOM, District Nominating Committee, a few General Assembly Committees, and the Rules Committee for District Conference. David has an interest in church governance and seeing healthy leaders serving on healthy boards in order to better equip and serve the church.

David and Tara are in the process of launching their three young adult sons and enjoy seeing the trajectories their lives are taking. David enjoys woodwork and getting out cross-country skiing in the winter.

Steve Schneider

Lay Person

Steve is a layperson and a member of Peace Portal Alliance Church in Surrey. He has been married to his wife Brenda since 1984. They have two adult daughters. He is an engineer by background and holds an MBA from Heriot-Watt University. He works in the paper industry and is also the President of SGS Consulting Ltd. He has recently become a licensed worker in the CPD.

Steve has served in varied ways over the years but has more recently been focussed on church board work. He served on his first church board 36 years ago. Since that time, he has served on four different church boards and the District Executive Committee of the CPD. Over the last 12 years Steve has actively been teaching and consulting with church and not-for-profit boards within and outside of The Alliance Canada to help them develop healthy governance practices.

Keith Cheung

English Lead Pastor at Burnaby Alliance Church

Keith was also an active member at Westside Calgary Chinese Alliance Church before moving to Vancouver to begin full-time pastoral ministry. After a brief stint pastoring in a church from another denomination, Keith began serving as the English Lead Pastor at Burnaby Alliance Church in 2017 where he continues to serve today.

Keith is married to Cecelia (20 years this year!) and they are raising 2 beautiful daughters (11 and 6) who they adopted from Taiwan and Korea respectively. He loves, in no particular order, cooking and eating and conversations, the Saskatchewan Roughriders, road cycling, family reunions, and good movies and music.

Carol Goh

District Chaplains Committee Chair

carol@mycac.ca

Carol Goh has chaired the District Chaplains Committee and served on the Association for Alliance Chaplains (AAC) National Committee since 2018. She completed her Masters degree in Chaplaincy in Spiritual Care from Trinity Western Seminary and is the Neighborhood Chaplain and Pastor for Seniors at Chilliwack Alliance. As a chaplain, Carol invests in the neighborhood (parish) around the church through connecting with those who live, work, and go to school there. She intentionally supports the local public elementary school and other local organizations so that together they can weave together the fabric of care for the inhabitants. The Goh household includes her husband Andrew, their three teenage sons, Andrew’s mother, and their golden doodle.

David Driedger

Board Leadership Training Partner

dave@lakewoodalliance.com

David has served at Lakewood Alliance Church since the fall of 2002, first as an associate, then as Lead Pastor starting in November 2005. David has been on various committees including DEXCOM, District Nominating Committee, a few General Assembly Committees, and the Rules Committee for District Conference. David has an interest in church governance and seeing healthy leaders serving on healthy boards in order to better equip and serve the church.

David and Tara are in the process of launching their three young adult sons and enjoy seeing the trajectories their lives are taking. David enjoys woodwork and getting out cross-country skiing in the winter.

Daren Wride

Transitional Pastors Network Coordinator

dwride@shaw.ca

Daren Wride has been serving in transitional roles since 2011. He has been on the ground as Transitional Pastor in multiple churches around the province and has engaged as a Transitional Coach with several other churches. Prior to his transitional work, Daren pastored three churches in Alberta and BC for a total of nearly 20 years. Daren has also spent time in the professional speaking and internet marketing worlds and usually has a related project on the go.

Geoff Stewart

District Youth Ministry Partner

geoffs@peaceportalalliance.com

Youth ministry is among the most demanding ministries in the church from a relational standpoint, serving young people who are defining the ever changing culture we live in. Leading in youth ministry is best not done alone, and Geoff desires to help our youth pastors serve and encourage one another through the sharing of resources, wisdom, experience, and perspective. In the ever-changing world of today’s high school student, it is vital for us as youth pastors to be changing with them to understand the world they are navigating and share with them the life changing truth of the Gospel.

Geoff has been a youth pastor for 6 years at Peace Portal Alliance Church and volunteered for 10 years before that in the same church. He is passionate about seeing young people transformed by Jesus and becoming leaders in their school and community. He and his wife Lavonne live in South Surrey with their cats Norman and Puff Daddy.

Andy Lambkin

Team Lead - Property Development & Nest Housing Society

andy.lambkin@gmail.com

Andy wears two hats in the Canadian Pacific District. He serves as our New Venture implementer, helping new communities of faith emerge across our province, and he also leads the Nest housing Society, a non-profit affordable housing society working with local churches to utilize their land for social good while fulfilling critical ministry priorities. If you have questions about either of these areas, please reach out.

Personally, Andy is married to Jolie and they have four kids. Residing in North Vancouver, they call simplechurches, a network of house churches, their church home.

Carmen Kinniburgh

District Children’s Ministry Partner

jckinnib@telus.net

Children’s ministry involves developing leaders, discipling children and families, exercising creativity, with an emphasis on fun and building relationships that help others to experience God’s love as they are loved by people who know God’s love. Carmen has served in children’s ministries as a volunteer, coordinator, curriculum writer, camp speaker, and pastor. Her desire in ministry and life is to help others (whether they be children, youth, or adults) to hear God’s voice and to experience the freedom and fullness of love found in knowing Jesus and living kingdom lives. Whether your children’s ministry is led by volunteers or a pastoral leader, Carmen would love to connect, build networks, support, resource, pray with, and provide care in whatever areas are needed.

Carmen lives in Vernon with her husband, Jeremy, and their two teenage kids. She loves playing soccer, hiking, camping, and theatre. She and Jeremy have founded two new ministries called Threshold Initiatives and Contributing Pastor.