A searchable, downloadable PDF of the original article appears below. These three new Board members will each serve a three-year term. A complete list of the Board of Directors is on the inside front cover.
Raymond Lee
“As the Chairperson of the Education Committee at London Korean Christian Church, I am responsible for the overall annual Christian Education Programs and its successful operation for Sunday School, youth and adults.
“Since we have a large number of young people aged between 13 to early 20’s (about 90 to 100) attending Sunday services we allocate much more time, budget, effort, etc. to keep them in church and cultivate them to be servants of God, perhaps as ordained ministers.
“We also work in close cooperation with London Presbytery and other Korean churches nearby.
“I am concerned for:
- the evangelical education of the younger generation to keep them in church;
- education of the older generation to demonstrate their Christian faith and identity to the younger generation to follow their example; and
- both the spiritual and financial support for seminary students and prospective students.”
Kent D. MacLeod
Kent lives in Truro, Nova Scotia and is employed as a French teacher with the Colchester-East Hants District School Board. He currently teaches Grades 10, 11 and 12 at Hants North Rural High School, a position he has held for the last seven years.
Kent’s home church is St. James Presbyterian where he has recently been ordained as an elder. His past church involvement includes teaching several levels of Sunday School as well as being the Youth Group leader. He presently sits on the Youth Needs Committee and the Worship Committee. He is a member of the Men’s Discipleship Group. Kent is married to the former Karen MacLeod, a Registered Nurse. The couple have four children; Lindsay (6½), Sarah (almost 5), James (3) and Daniel (1).
Vision
“I believe we in the Presbyterian Church need to continue to recognize the authority of Scripture and use the Bible as our guide in all matters. In turn we need to be disciples, Christ-followers, and do our part to lead others to the Lord. We must daily look to Jesus for his direction in our lives (Luke 9:23).”
David Jennings
“I was appointed in March to the Board of Directors of the Renewal Fellowship Within The Presbyterian Church in Canada. I am an elder at Fairview Presbyterian Church in Vancouver, and I work as a lawyer practising corporate law in downtown Vancouver. I am 31 years old, married to Laura and a father to Emily (3 years old) and Calvin (7 months old).
“Why did I, already besieged with too much church committee work, agree to serve on the Renewal Fellowship Board of Directors? Simply put, I believe that the Presbyterian Church in Canada has been and can still be used by Christ to further his work. But I also believe the PCC members across this country, laity and clergy alike, have either rejected the denomination’s corporate life and responsibilities for personal experience or forgotten that the PCC has a vision and an obligation that is more than the sum of its committees. In other words, many PCC members appear to believe either in ‘renewal fellowship’ or in the denomination, but not renewal fellowship within the denomination.
“The Renewal Fellowship Within The Presbyterian Church in Canada is the only organization that recognizes explicitly that renewal of the PCC must occur contemporaneously both at an individual and corporate level. If I can assist in a process that provides my children with a theologically rich, institutionally egalitarian and spiritually strong denomination, then I will have served my children, my church and my God effectively. How could I say ‘no’ to the appointment?”