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Dr. Kent Anderson is President of Providence University College and Theological Seminary, located in Otterburne, Manitoba. Prior to this, however, he was both President and Professor of Homiletics at Northwest Baptist Seminary, in Langley, British Columbia (on the campus of Trinity Western University), which is a part of ACTS Seminaries. He is on the board of directors of the Association of Theological Schools as well as the Fellowship of Evangelical Seminary Presidents. Dr. Anderson completed his Ph.D. at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with TWU Student MinistriesFollow us on Instagram 

Steven Abraham has served in various ministry roles over the past 25 years. He and his wife, Shinnie graduated from a Bible School in 1996 (affiliated with Salt and Light Ministries), before serving as pastor over two city churches in South Asia. As a bi-vocational minister, he has also worked as a senior leadership and organization development specialist in the secular marketplace. His passion and calling are to equip the church and see God’s kingdom extend into the community. Today, he serves as the pastor of The Kings Community Church, in Langley, British Columbia. Shinnie is an experienced Christian counselor. Their daughters, Sheena and Sara, are undergraduate students at Trinity Western University. Steven loves to go on nature walks whenever possible with his wife and Watson, their poodle or listen to music or read a book over a cup of good coffee. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with TWU Student MinistriesFollow us on Instagram 

Dr. Felicia Wu Song is a Professor of Sociology and Interim Chair of the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. Having trained at Yale and Northwestern, and the University of Virginia, she particularly studies cultural sociology, exploring the rapidly evolving technology industry and how the adoption of social media and digital devices fundamentally alters the landscapes of family, community, and organizations life. Be sure to grab a copy of her latest book, Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with TWU Student MinistriesFollow us on Instagram 

Michele Regehr is one of the coolest nurses you will know, having served for more than 20 years in critical care roles in Canada and the U.S. In following God’s call to the next chapter of life, she is retiring this summer of 2022 as the Director of Health Services at Trinity Western University. Michele adores the outdoors (she lives on a farm) and is also a people person, who has served on disaster relief trips to places like Indonesia and Haiti. She met her would-be husband at TWU and went on earn a bachelor’s degree in nursing at Athabasca University, and then a master’s degree in nursing back at TWU in 2016. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with TWU Student MinistriesFollow us on Instagram 

Aliya Coy is a 5’6” defender on Trinity Western University’s women’s soccer team, representing Calgary. With plans to graduate in the fall of 2022, she is a corporate communications major who desires to become a humanitarian journalist. Aliya is passionate about Jesus and drawing a wide circle of diverse friends and experiences to help her remain humble, inquisitive, caring, and balanced. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with TWU Student MinistriesFollow us on Instagram 

Melissa Au is Trinity Western University’s Senior Marketing Manager. She has been here for about three years and before that worked primarily in secular spaces around marketing, branding, and business development. As you will hear in this episode with The Rev., she and her husband have been married for almost 30 years (28 to be exact!) and they love spending time together at home. It saves money, helps them navigate pandemic safety well, and enables them to relax after long days. Melissa is a 1990 graduate of the BC Institute of Technology and is enrolled in an undergraduate degree completion program at TWU, able to rub shoulders with her son, who is in his third year. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with TWU Student MinistriesFollow us on Instagram 

Rev. Dr. Toran Scott is the lead pastor of The Local Church, a congregation he began with a small group of believers in 2017 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is a pretty cool dude and with tattoos to prove it! Dr. Scott has over 20 years’ experience serving in various pastoral roles, having completed his bachelor’s degree at Cedarville University, master’s degree at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and Ph.D. in educational leadership at Western Michigan University. As he shares with The Rev. in this episode, he married his college crush, Brenda, back in 1998 and they have gone on to have four kids. With a ton of hobbies and talents, he has been known to build acoustic guitars, train police dogs, ride motorcycles, and generally have lots of fun following Jesus and helping to make disciples. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with Rev. Toran Instagram ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with TWU Student MinistriesFollow us on Instagram 

Harold Gutierrez is an ordained minister with experience in multicultural ministry, who is presently serving as the International and Indigenous Ministries Director of The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada’s (PAOC) British Columbia and Yukon District (BCYD), based in Langley, British Columbia. In recent years, he was the Senior Pastor of Iglesia Evangelica Pentecostal Emmanuel. Harold holds degrees from Oral Roberts University and Florida Atlantic University. In the fall of 2021 and spring of 2022, TWU was blessed to have him preach in chapel on Esther 8:15-17 and Jude 1:8-16. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with TWU Student MinistriesFollow us on Instagram 

Winnie Lui is Trinity Western University’s Director of Public Relations. She is also a TWU graduate, with a bachelor’s degree in International Studies, having had the opportunity to study at the Laurentian Leadership Center (LLC) in Ottawa and the Chinese Studies Program at Xiamen University in China. Winnie is working to tentatively complete her master’s degree in Christian Studies in 2022 at ACTS Seminaries. Originally from Hong Kong, she now lives in British Columbia with her husband and daughter. You will learn that Winnie likes run and read books, and was kind enough to share her testimony in chapel with the TWU community in 2021. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with TWU Student MinistriesFollow us on Instagram 

Rev. Dr. Rhonda Britton has been the Pastor of New Horizons Baptist Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada) since 2007. From Florida originally, she in due time found herself in the New Jersey/New York region, amassing a bachelor’s degree from Baruch College and master’s degrees at Rutgers University and Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. Britton also has a Doctor of Ministry degree from Acadia University. Prior to vocational ministry, she worked in the corporate and government sectors, but left it behind in 1999 to follow God’s call to seminary and pastoral work. She has traveled too many cool places to count now, but always remains open for a good road trip or flight to enjoy all that God has created. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with TWU Student MinistriesFollow us on Instagram 

Dr. Ken Shigematsu has been the Senior Pastor of Tenth Church in downtown Vancouver since 1996. He is all about using props in his sermons, from a hamburger under a napkin to a music stand as a javelin. Originally from Japan, before full-time ministry began, Dr. Shigematsu worked for Sony in Tokyo. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College, M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and a doctorate from San Francisco Theological Seminary. In 2013, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal, which is awarded to Canadians for their outstanding contributions to the country. A contemplative and lover of reading, Dr. Shigematsu has authored two books, God in My Everything: How an Ancient Rhythm Helps Busy People Enjoy God and Survival Guide for the Soul: How to Flourish Spiritually in a World that Pressures Us to Achieve. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with TWU Student MinistriesFollow us on Instagram 

Rev. Prince Thomas is from the twin island state of Antigua and Barbuda, located in the Caribbean and presently serving in Surrey, British Columbia as an ordained associate pastor at Pacific Community Church, a Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) congregation. He enjoys playing sports, watching Netflix, and connecting with people from various sociocultural backgrounds. He has a Master of Divinity degree from Ambrose Seminary and a bachelor's degree in accounting from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with TWU Student MinistriesFollow us on Instagram 

Charis Goh has been with InterVarsity, a well-known parachurch organization, since 2009. After several years serving in Montreal, she has landed back in Vancouver as the region’s Staff Director, which is a coming home for her since it is where she from and her family remains. In her role, she oversees campus ministries in British Columbia by resourcing campus staff members and developing relationships with local churches and organizations. In her spare time, Charis enjoys traveling and all kinds of games (competitive, cooperative, strategic, speed, memory, noisy), and she is no slouch when it comes to badminton and soccer. She is not to be tested. A key Bible verse she has been studying lately is Ecclesiastes 7:13-14 (ESV): “In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.” ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with TWU Student MinistriesFollow us on Instagram 

Dr. Jeffrey P. Greenman has been the President and Professor of Theology and Ethics at Regent College in Vancouver since 2015. Prior to that, he was their Academic Dean and Executive Vice President. He has a rich, diverse background, having worked at Wheaton College and Tyndale Seminary as well as had leadership roles in the U.S. government around education and juvenile justice. He is a Regent College alumnus of the M.Div. program and went on to earn his Ph.D. in religious ethics at the University of Virginia. Dr. Greenman has authored and contributed to a bevy of books, including Understanding Jacques Ellul, The Decalogue Through the Centuries, and The Pedagogy of Praise to name a few. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with TWU Student MinistriesFollow us on Instagram 

Rev. Dr. Timothy Tennent began in 2009 as the President (and Professor of World Christianity) of Asbury Theological Seminary, located in beautiful Wilmore, Kentucky, after serving as the Professor of World Missions and Indian Studies at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Ordained in the United Methodist Church since 1984, he has pastored in Georgia and New England. As a skilled missiologist with a heart for true Kingdom diversity, he has written a number of books, such as Building Christianity on Indian Foundations, Theology in the Context of World Christianity: How the Global Church Is Influencing the Way We Think about and Discuss Theology, Invitation to World Missions: A Trinitarian Missiology for the 21st Century, and Christianity at the Religious Roundtable: Evangelicalism in Conversation with Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam. His most recent book is For the Body: Recovering a Theology of Gender, Sexuality, and the Human Body. He met with wife, Julie, while they were students at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, where he completed his M.Div. and went on to earn the Th.M. at Princeton Theological Seminary. His Ph.D. is in non-Western Christianity with a focus on Hinduism and Indian Christianity from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with TWU Student MinistriesFollow us on Instagram 

Ray Chang is the President of the Asian American Christian Collaborative and a Ministry Associate for Discipleship at Wheaton College (where he completed his undergraduate degree) in the Chaplain’s Office. Though in the Chicagoland area now, he has lived in Korea, Guatemala, Panama, Spain, and China. Prior to vocational ministry, he worked in for-profit and non-profit sectors, and served in the Peace Corps in Panama. Ray and his wife, Jessica, are on a mission to one day see a narwhal (also known as a narwhale), the “unicorn of the sea” that lives year-round in the Arctic waters around Greenland, Canada, and Russia. He has master’s degrees from Biola University and Trinity International University, and is in the process of completing his Ph.D. in Higher Education at Azuza Pacific University. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with Ray Personal Instagram Asian American Christian Collaborative Instagram ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with TWU Student MinistriesFollow us on Instagram 

Rev. John Snow is an Indigenous Minister serving the Pacific Mountain Regional Council of the United Church, supporting 200 congregations, and providing reconciliation efforts. With a master’s degree in public policy, law, and administration from the University of Calgary, previously through the years he was employed as an oil/gas consultant and contract instructor. Rev. Snow is a member of the Stoney Nakoda Tribe of Treaty 7, where he is a pipe holder and sun dancer. The Rev. Dr. Chief John Snow, Sr., his late father, was ordained in the United Church in 1963 and played a memorable role in advancing Indigenous issues, particularly around the significance of Indigenous Christianity. These Mountains Are Our Sacred Places: The Story of the Stoney People, his book, continues to offer challenge, wisdom, and encouragement. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with TWU Student MinistriesFollow us on Instagram 

Rev. Dr. Steve Norman is the author of The Preacher As Sermon: How Who You Are Shapes What They Hear. Though based on the west side of Michigan now, he is a Chicagoland native who for many years served in pastoral ministry in Detroit and Grand Rapids. Having served as a church planter, lead pastor, teaching pastor, and writer, he has a heart to help the people of God deepen their transformation in Christ. He completed his bachelor’s degree at Taylor University and then graduated twice from Fuller Theological Seminary with a master’s degree and doctorate in intercultural/multicultural and diversity studies. He and his wife, Kelly (a nurse), have four super cool children, three girls and one boy. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with Rev. Steve Instagram ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with TWU Student MinistriesFollow us on Instagram 

Cellus Hamilton is a Christian rapper based in NYC, but who hails from Atlanta and spent time in Washington, DC attending Howard University. He and his wife, Denya, have their own branding/marketing endeavor called Sow and Tell as well as a podcast. Washing Her Feet is Cellus’ 2019 album and he is also the author of a book, If Jesus Was a Rapper. Join in as The Rev. chat with him in this episode about rap music, the beautiful craziness of obeying God, and family life. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with Cellus Personal Instagram Sow and Tell's Instagram Cellus and Denya Podcast's Instagram ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with TWU Student MinistriesFollow us on Instagram 

Jason VanDyck has been the Athletic Facilities Manager at Trinity Western University for 11 years. Born and raised in the lower mainland of B.C., he attended both the University of the Fraser Valley and TWU (where he played soccer for two years) for undergraduate studies before landing at the University of Victoria to complete his teaching certificate. He then went on to become a high school teacher. Married now for five years, he also has three kids: 21, 19, and 16. In his conversation with The Rev., you will come to know that once upon a time Jason kept a small zoo of reptiles at his home to use for presentations at area schools and he did indeed has spent tine in the Peruvian jungle, helping a photographer from National Geographic and researchers catalogue various reptiles and amphibians. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Connect with TWU Student MinistriesFollow us on Instagram