Hometown: Kelowna

Travel: Okanagan Valley/Kootenays (willing to travel further with enough notice)

Contact: Email Michael Benty

With nearly twenty years of pastoral experience in churches throughout British Columbia, Michael is committed to expository preaching and passionate about ministering the Word of God in context. He specifically enjoys teaching on the person/nature/work of Christ, evangelism, and prayer, and has a strong desire to see believers discover and utilize their spiritual gifts. He has also been active in worship leading, prison ministry, and taught at a rehabilitation recovery centre.

Michael likes being with people on both corporate and individual levels believing that relationships (with God and others) are the most important thing in life.

Hometown: Kamloops

Travel: Wherever needed

Contact: Email Larry Boss

Larry and Barbara were the first C&MA missionaries to Poland. They served in Poland for 10 years helping to establish the ministry of the C&MA, formed strategic partnerships with Polish churches, and planted a vibrant international church. Larry and Barbara then spent five years in Cairo, Egypt as the lead of a dynamically growing international church. They returned to Kamloops where Larry became the Lead Pastor at Kamloops Alliance Church (KAC) where for 10 years they saw God grow individuals and grow His church. Larry resigned from ministry at KAC in August of 2017. He has recently completed a term as the Interim Lead Pastor at Southwest Community Church in Kamloops.

Larry is a contemporary expository communicator with a passion to disciple believers and win the lost. He values solid application-based biblical preaching is delivered from a place of authenticity and transparency. Larry is available for speaking/teaching on weekends and for retreats or special events.

Hometown: Richmond

Travel: Up to 3 hours each way by highway

Contact: Email Aymon Chu

Aymon is from Hong Kong and has been a Canadian citizen for 50 years. His Christian ministry began in 1985 and he retired in January 2018. He has since been serving at Richmond Capstan Alliance Church. Over the course of 33 years of ministry, Aymon became more convinced and focused on the aspect of disciple training as the core and driving force to fulfill the Great Commission. He strongly believes disciples are built by God Himself through His words. He has developed, over the years, a simple, literal, and effective Bible study method for this purpose.

Aymon’s style of preaching is expository.

Hometown: Kelowna

Travel: Interior and Lower Mainland

Contact: Email Michelle Derksen

Michelle, along with her husband Murray and family, have lived and served as International Workers with The Alliance Canada in Mexico, Egypt, Costa Rica, and throughout the Caribbean Sun region (Latin America and the Caribbean) for the last three decades. She aspires to live and model a way of life that is life-giving and transforming, inspiring others to choose the same. Her walk with God has become rich and deep, flavored with life experiences that have shaped her. This depth of experience seasons her communication, bringing new understanding to the ancient words of scripture.

Hometown: Abbotsford

Travel: Fraser Valley and Lower Mainland

Contact: Email Ralph Hardy

Ralph had over two decades working in the high-tech industry before becoming a pastor in 2000. He has worked in ministry both in and out of the church and has experience in multicultural settings. Ralph’s passion is to convey – using God’s Word – how we are to live a practical, down-to-earth, but heavenly-inspired faith that allows us to have joy even when faced with hardship and/or challenges.

Ralph’s messages are a hybrid of expositional preaching and story-telling; the core of what he conveys has to come from the Bible, but he also aims to make it personally relevant.

Hometown: Vernon

Travel: Anywhere

Contact: Email Carmen Kinniburgh

Carmen grew up in northern BC and has ministered in churches in Alberta and BC for the past 18 years, mainly in the area of children and families. She has experience as a conference presenter, camp speaker, guest speaker at women’s events, and in preaching. Her desire in ministry and life is to help others hear God’s voice and to experience the freedom and fullness of love found in knowing Jesus and living kingdom lives. She is an ordained minister with the C&MA, a graduate of Canadian Bible College, and is currently pursuing masters studies at McMaster Divinity College.

Hometown: Vernon

Travel: Interior and Lower Mainland

Contact: Email Stuart McKnight

Stuart has lived, studied and ministered in Scotland, Australia, and Western Canada, along the way being blessed by Teresa and 6 Children (ages 25-9), they are now amateur farmers with pigs, chickens, cats, and dogs. Having served in local church pastoral leadership for over 20 years, Stuart is now the founder and primary voice of ‘Theology Now’. With a passion for truth, history, and theology, Stuart’s ministry is to teach a ‘grander vision of God’.

Hometown: Kamloops

Travel: Throughout BC

Contact: Email Cory Steinson

Cory was born in Moose Jaw, grew up in Regina, and has had the privilege of serving God as a pastor in both of those cities with The Christian and Missionary Alliance for 35 years. Cory has a Bachelor of Theology from Canadian Bible College and a Master of Arts in Religion (high honours) from Canadian Theological Seminary. He has a passion to preach the Word well. In 2018, Cory and his wife moved to Kamloops to be closer to their daughter, son-in-law, and precious grandson.

Hometown: Abbotsford

Travel: Anywhere in the Lower Mainland, but open to other areas (if I don’t have to drive)

Contact: Email Gaileen Warden

Gaileen served as an International Worker with the Alliance for 40 years (30 in Venezuela, 10 in Cuba – where she was born to missionary parents). She helped with church planting in Venezuela as well as teaching in the Venezuelan Bible Institute for a few years.  She has experience in preaching, teaching, and leading small groups. Gaileen has ministered to women in the church through small groups as well as a retreat speaker. In Cuba she helped to establish the national women’s ministry through training and mentoring programs, as well as organizing retreats. Her desire is to see lives transformed through inner spiritual healing – something she witnessed in her ministry in Cuba.