Andrea Perrett is an Associate in New Witnessing Communities with the Centre for Missional Leadership at St Andrew’s Hall in Vancouver, BC. She is the leader of Cultivate: Missional Church Planting Collective, which gathers and equips leaders to help them navigate the challenges of planting sustainable new witnessing communities.

As a multivocational leader, Andrea also works as a dietitian at a mental health care facility and is a church planter with Transform, an outdoor-based witnessing community. She has previously been the Director of Cyclical Vancouver, the leader of a dinner church, St. Andy’s Community Table, and served at West Point Grey Presbyterian Church in Vancouver.

Andrea is passionate about supporting leaders who are experimenting with new ways of gathering Christian communities. She also loves exploring the connection between physical health and spiritual health and currently leads an online bread baking circle, where the group of amateur bakers share about life and faith while mixing and kneading their dough. Andrea has a MDiv from Vancouver School of Theology, where she is working on a ThM in Missional Theology.

Andrea and her husband, Jordan are originally from the prairies, but have called the West Coast home for over a decade. They live on the North Shore where they enjoy exploring the mountains with their goofy black lab and toddler.

Dr. Carol Penner is Director of Theological Studies at Conrad Grebel University College where she teaches practical theology. Her research has been in the area of violence against women and theology. She is a Mennonite and is on a national committee currently redrafting the Pastoral Sexual Misconduct Policy. You can see a list of publications here.

Jay Mowchenko is the Paul E Magnus Chair of Leadership and Management Studies at Briercrest Seminary. Married to Marilou since 1993, they live in Saskatoon. He is deeply interested in the interplay between personal transformation and systemic change. He is ordained in the Free Methodist Church in Canada and would really like to talk to you about the fantasy novels of Steven Erikson and Ian Esslemont.

Xenia 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.

Beth Carlson-Malena lives with her wife Danice on unceded Coast Salish land, in what's currently known as Vancouver, BC, Canada. Beth co-pastors a non-denominational church called Open Way that she helped plant six and a half years ago. She has a great side gig as a wedding officiant and spends the rest of her time on amateur botany, birding, work for climate justice and Palestinian freedom, and enjoying science fiction books and films.

Seán McGuire holds a Doctorate of Practical Theology from McMaster Divinity College (Hamilton, ON), serves as Lead Pastor of a Canadian Baptist church in Downtown Hamilton, and is an Adjunct Professor at Carey Theological College (Vancouver, BC). He is the author of the forthcoming book Biblical Hermeneutics in the Metamodern Mood: Understanding Differences in Interpretation and Theological Integration in Practice (Pickwick Publications). Seán enjoys hiking and biking along the Niagara Escarpment with his wife, Jessica, and their three children.