Meet our Staff
Elle Pyke
Elle is the Director of Programs & Innovation for the New Leaf Network. Elle has served on the board of a number of organizations such as Women Powering Technology Global, TEDxWaterlooWomen and The Christian Entrepreneurial Leaders Organization. She is currently pursuing her MA in Theology and Culture from the Institute for Religion, Peace and Justice at St Stephen's University. She loves spending time with friends and family, the great outdoors and all things New Leaf.
Amy Bratton
Amy is the Director of Operations & Publishing for the New Leaf Network and the project manager for the Canadian Multivocational Ministry Project. She lives in Saskatoon, SK with her husband, Tim, and their two sons, Oswald and Ira. She is a lay leader at Riversdale Neighbours church and an Adjunct Professor with Rocky Mountain College in the area of Spiritual Formation. She writes and speaks about the history of Christian spirituality, with a focus on the early Methodist understanding of Christian maturity known as “perfect love.” Read more from her in her book Witnesses of Perfect Love: Narratives of Christian Perfection in Early Methodism.
Jared Siebert
Jared serves in many capacities in the Canadian Church. He founded an organization of missionary church leaders called the New Leaf Network and is one of Canada’s leading inter-denominational church planter trainers. But church planting isn’t the only kind of experience he has garnered. In his ministry roles Jared has had the opportunity to work with churches of all kinds from all over Canada. He has acted as a consultant in churches large and small, urban and rural, and new and long established. He has written a discipleship curriculum, a handbook on church planter training, and a Church Health workbook called the LifePlan. As a sought after speaker and consultant Jared is uniquely able to draw insight and inspiration from a variety of sources and bring that to the table as he helps churches move toward unity and the mission of God.
Alanna Johnson
Alanna provides communications & systems support for the New Leaf Network. Alanna brings a wide-ranging background to the table; from biomedical research to pastoral care in the areas of spiritual and creative formation. She recently finished an M.Div. in Clinical Counselling at Tyndale and is now working in community mental health.
Payge Lucas
Payge is the New Leaf administrative assistant and the Director of the Roxy Centre. Payge lives in Dundas, ON with her husband Paul and their three kids. Payge has worked in a variety of ministries and is currently pursuing her Masters of Theological Studies with a focus in Spiritual Care and Counselling at McMaster Divinity College. She loves plants, spending time with family, and building aquariums in her spare time.
Meet Our Board
Greg Elford
Greg is a husband, father of 3, pastor and coffee shop owner. He is leading a community that is experimenting with how a combination of business, charity, church and community development can co-exist and create new partnerships in the city of Mission BC.
Diane Clifford
Diane Clifford currently resides in Fort Frances, Ontario, a small town in Northwestern Ontario surrounded by lakes, streams, rocks and trees to the east and fields to the west. The family in faith where she pastors is a group of people who believe that the Holy Spirit has called them into the world to share the love of Jesus in their everyday lives. Diane has always intentionally functioned in a multi-vocational capacity which provides plenty of opportunity to be active in the community, to meet people and to be engaged in the neighbourhood.
Tarra Weber
Tarra is a CPA with over 7 years of experience working in the charitable sector as a Director of Finance and COO. She has served on the board of Una Church for five years. Tarra lives in Kitchener, ON and enjoys travelling and spending time with friends and family.
Meet Our Advisory Team
Keitha Ogbogu
Keitha Ogbogu is the lead pastor at West Springs Church in Calgary, Alberta. A former teacher, she is passionate about the power of mentorship and especially enjoys encouraging young men and women who are called to preach, to speak and lead. Her pastoral work has affirmed her love for the nations, her pursuit of justice and, of course, her call to preach. She is married to Cyril and together they are raising three black princes, Samuel, Emmanuel and Ezra.
Alicia Wilson
Alicia Wilson lives in community with 10 others in Hamilton, Ontario. She is the founder of Restoration Project, a non-profit that teaches woodworking to adults with developmental disabilities. She is also the co-founder of a new housing movement called In My Backyard (IMBY for short). Alicia studied at McMaster Divinity College, where she finished her MTS.
Bernard Tam
Bernard Tam is a coffee enthusiast, neighbourhood connector and one of the pastors at The Living Room Church in Midtown, Toronto. Regularly you can find Bernard at local specialty coffee shops learning to be present in the neighbourhood while enjoying every sip of locally roasted coffee. He is also one of the cohosts of the Canadian Asian Missional Podcast - a conversation that engages with the movements of the Canadian Asian Church.
Tabitha Mui
Tabitha Mui was born on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (a.k.a. Vancouver, B.C.) to ethnic Chinese settlers from Hong Kong, and she currently resides in Treaty 13A (a.k.a. Mississauga, Ontario). She often finds herself living at some sort of intersection - most recently, as a bi-vocational church planter (Selah Community Church) navigating how to live with chronic illness. At these intersections, the sharing of food will always be present, as she believes that it is a beautiful way to foster Jesus-centred communities.
Aaron Gerard
Aaron Gerrard, his wife, and three kids call Ancaster, Ontario, home (Treaty 3 1792, Dish with One Spoon). Aaron is the pastor of Ancaster Village Church, a church which he, his family, and a few other crazy dreamers planted in 2012. He shares the story of that church planting journey in his new book from New Leaf Press, Quit Pastoring Your Church. The story of a small church making Jesus their pastor.