AFRICA

Glenn and Fern Byerly, African Bible College, Malawi

The college is changing from one major in Bible and two minors to three majors: Bible, Communications and Education. The whole curriculum is changing. The Political/Social Science is adding World View from the History and Philosophy of Education which will be taught as a required course in the Education major. This means changing the curriculum. Pray for wisdom. I no longer teach French. They are hiring a Congolese who is married to a Malawian for next year. The present teacher is leaving. They gave me a new course to develop ‘Critique and Composition’. Since I had never taken it I had to find something on the internet. All those who had taken it didn't have notes any more. That was quite a challenge. I will do better next year. Open Air Evangelism is changing from a required course for all students to  be joined with Personal Evangelism and Bible Memory. This needs great wisdom. you might say, the world is shaking.

We have now been accepted by Global Outreach Mission as  missionaries to Malawi, as well as ABC but we are not sure just what that means yet. We still are waiting for their information which should come at the end of this month. That is an answer to prayer as we have been low in support for six months.

Hanneke Cost Budde, Tanzania Hanneke was born in Holland and then moved to Canada, her training was in education and counselling high need youth. While attending a mission conference at Knox, Hanneke felt called to work with children in Tanzania through Africa Inland Mission. She has been there 14 years. Today her African colleagues call her Mama Hanneke. “She is one of us,” the leaders say. "She is only white on the outside. She is our family. She does much more for us than what we do for each other. Please tell your people to support this wonderful lady in whatever way you can, and send another 30 Hannekes to help us here.” Hanneke raises three orphans: Kiri 4, Baraka 2 and Faraja 9 months. Learn more about Hanneke's day to day ministry.

Leah Hopp, Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC), Uganda  Leah is excited to have been invited to work in Karamoja to teach community health. She will leave this year, hopefully in November, to live and work rurally and simply for the long term. Please keep her in your prayers as she prepares to move to Uganda. She will take a holistic ministry course before leaving to help the local church be equipped to minister to the poor in both word and deed.

ASIA

Paul and Mary Beth McLean, PCC Paul works in partnership with the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan and the Bible Society in Taiwan to translate the Bible into the Hakka language.  Much of Paul’s time is spent painstakingly comparing every word in the Hebrew Old Testament with the Hakka draft translation.  He is working to make the Bible available to the Hakka people in their own language.  Mary Beth works at the PCC church offices on Wynford Drive in the International Ministries Department.

Bill and Sheila McKelvie, PCC Bill and Sheila first arrived in Pakistan in December 1988. They went with two year old Daniel and two years later, still during their first term, Mark and Rebecca were born. They spent the first 9 years in Kunri, a small town on the edge of the Thar Desert in Sindh province. They then moved two hours west to the outskirts of Mirpur Khas, a city of about 200,000, 90 km east of Hyderabad. Bill and Sheila have worked with the Diocese of Hyderabad, Church of Pakistan.

Bill initially worked in Kunri Christian Hospital, the Diocese's rural general hospital. He then moved to the Tuberculosis Control Program where he served as its Medical Director for the past 12 years, before handing over leadership to national colleagues. Bill also served on a couple of advisory boards in the Diocese, and preached regularly at the local parish and occasionally in village outreach programs.

Sheila initially faced the challenge of learning a new language, home schooling first one then three children, and acting as a full-time mom. She taught Sunday school herself, and trained Sunday School teachers and female Bible study leaders. Sheila was team leader for Interserve's workers in Pakistan for the past 3 years.

Bill and Sheila have returned to Canada for 2 years to help Mark and Rebecca settle into Canadian life. Daniel, Mark, and Rebecca are all studying at Memorial University in St. John's, NL. Bill just finished his MSc in Epidemiology, and will begin Family Medicine locums. He will also try to continue some public health research and (from a

distance) to advise the Diocese of Hyderabad on developing health ministies. Sheila continues to work with Interserve, developing and organising international orientation programmes for new partners.

Her first programme takes place in Kuala Lampur in December.

They plan to return to Pakistan in 2010.

Sylvan and Yuriko Payne, Tokyo, Japan Sylvan and Yuriko Payne live and work in Tokyo, Japan. Sylvan teaches at a university, now enjoying a multi-year contract with that institution. He has many contacts with students and participates in a faculty Bible study. Their daughter Juli is six years old and has started elementary school.

EUROPE

Mary Gorombey, PCC, Budapest, Hungary Mary works with the Reformed Church in Hungary and is based in Budapest, Hungary. Her assignment is the fruit of an official partnership established between the Presbyterian Church in Canada and the Reformed Church in Hungary. Mary will work in the church offices writing an English language mission newsletter communicating mission activities to friends of the Reformed Church of Hungary in other parts of the world. She will also be working with the church's mission to refugees. This comprises a school integration program. Mary will help tutor students and share fellowship with them, following up on their well being. She hopes to expand her work with refugees as opportunities become available. Mary's blog

Elizabeth Matthias, Mission to the World, Berlin, Germany Elizabeth is lecturing in biblical counselling, and assisting in the development of this program, at the Martin Bucer Seminary (MBS) in Berlin, Germany.  MBS is a non-residential reformed seminary whose goal is to provide theological training within a mentoring relationship to students actively involved in ministry during their further studies.  She is mentoring the female students and counselling various individuals, but has also begun teaching counselling in some other MBS satellite locations, including the Czech Republic.  The combined academic and applied/missions focus—understanding and applying the Scriptures in everyday life—is the heartbeat of MBS, and Elizabeth’s passion.  She is also actively engaged in Team Berlin’s church-planting ministry in the eastern part of Berlin where she lives. 

Elizabeth was born in Canada of German immigrants, but has always had close ties to all her relatives.  While working in Germany she came to know Christ at the age of 20, and then lived and worked in Europe (Germany, The Netherlands and England) for eight years, before studying psychology (Alberta) and theology/counselling (WTS, Philadelphia).  Further studies continue now with a DMin from WTS.  Before taking up her role with MBS, she served with MTW in Nigeria for five years, teaching counselling at the Reformed Theological Seminary Mkar.  Coming back to live and work in Germany is beautiful providence!

Gord and Brenda Nickerson, Josiah Venture, Wheaton, Illinois Along with their three children, Amy(18), Brad (15), and Katie (13), Brenda and Gord have been serving with Josiah Venture since January of 1997. For just over five of those years they lived in Lodz, Poland serving on the Josiah Venture Poland Team in various capacities. More recently the family moved to Wheaton Illinois where Gord serves as the North American Director. In this role they are very involved in the wider ministry of Josiah Venture as they serve in the areas of training of new missionaries, missionary care, follow-up with Josiah Venture churches, and representing the work of Josiah Venture throughout the United States and Canada. Today Josiah Venture has partner organizations or staff teams in 10 Eastern European countries. [Our Name: King Josiah began seeking God at age sixteen. By the time he was 26, God had used Josiah to bring revival to the land, rebuild the house of God, and restore the Word of God to its central place (2 Chronicles. 34). Eastern Europe desperately needs its own Josiahs, young men and women who lead the way spiritually as this young king did. Our Vision: A movement of God among the youth of Eastern Europe that finds its home in the local church and transforms society. Our Mission: To equip young leaders in Eastern Europe to fulfill Christ's commission through the local church.]

SOUTH AMERICA

Ruth Thomson, Wycliffe Bible Translators, Brazil After graduating from Toronto Bible College, and doing her linguistic studies at the Universities of North Dakota and Oklahoma, Ruth joined Wycliffe Bible Translators and did her Jungle Training Camp in Mexico, then went on to Brazil to do linguistic research of the tribal language and translate the New Testament for that same tribe. Together with another missionary couple from Unevangelized Fields Mission they spent 35 years translating the New Testament and other Scripture portions into that language, teaching literacy, doctoring the sick, and so on. When the tribal New Testament was published and in the hands of the Indians, together with other Scripture portions and the JESUS film, Ruth then went on to another tribe with a related language, leaving the tribe in the hands of her co-translator who works with them in leadership training of the Christians. He is also doing some more Old Testament translation. Ruth is with another tribe now, doing linguistic research and Bible translation. She wonders which will happen first: the completion of the translation, the return of the Lord Jesus, or the end of her exciting life!

Jack and Mary Anne Voelkel Jack was born in Korea of Presbyterian missionary parents and met Mary Anne at Wheaton College.  They were married after Mary Anne finished her nursing degree and following Jack's studies at Princeton Seminary, were asked by the Presbyterian Church in Canada to found a congregation in Port Cartier, Quebec.  Dr. Fitch asked Jack to be his assistant at Knox in 1963.  In 1965, together with their three children (Alan, Jon, and Lisa) the Voelkels began their missionary activities in Latin America under the Latin America Mission.  They pioneered a university student ministry in Colombia which they helped lead for 20 years and then taught in the Biblical Seminary of Colombia for 10 years where Jack founded the missions department.  Along the way, Mary Anne picked up a Masters Degree from Wheaton College and Jack a Doctor of Missiology degree from Fuller School of World Mission.

NORTH AMERICA

Laurie Armstrong, Power to Change (formerly Campus Crusade for Christ). Laurie came to love and appreciate Knox during her student years at U of T. After graduation in 1981, she joined the staff of Campus Crusade for Christ, Canada. After serving 15 years with the French campus ministry at the U of Montreal, UQUAM and U of Ottawa, she was asked to join the Ontario campus leadership team in 1996 as the Eastern Region Administrator, a role that has steadily grown. In addition to her campus and office responsibilities in Canada with Campus for Christ, she has also enjoyed many short-term opportunities to serve internationally in South America, South East Asia, Eastern Europe and West Africa. After more than 25 years of ministry, she still delights in seeing life and world transformation as students discover Jesus.

Carluci dos Santos In January 10, 2008, Carluci assumed the role of (Interim) Executive Director  for Latin America Mission. LAM Canada first welcomed him and his wife, Christina, when they joined the Corporation. Since April of 2006, Carluci has served on the Board of Directors, which included chairing the Strategic Planning Committee. After dedicating a decade to mentoring and instructing students, Carluci found himself a student once again in 2002, relocating to Toronto to pursue doctoral studies at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, where he is a Ph.D. candidate in Old Testament Exegesis and Biblical Interpretation. Not his first time in Canada, Carluci is an alumnus of Regent College of Vancouver, where he obtained an M.C.S. in Christian Studies in 1990. Taking full advantage of his time in Vancouver, Carluci also obtained a M.A. in Hebrew Bible at the University of British Colombia in May of 1992. He is finalizing his thesis on the Composition of the Elijah Narratives, looking at these narratives from a literary and linguistic perspective. His thesis supervisor at Wycliffe College, Dr. Glen Taylor, is brother to LAM Missionary to Colombia, Gail Atiencia. Before coming to Canada in August of 2002, Carluci, Christina and their daughters Isabela, Nicoli and Hannah lived in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where for ten years he served with IVCF-Brazil under the Aliança Biblica Universitária do Brasil (ABUB) as part of their regional staff. His responsibilities included initiating and coordinating activities for the ABUB’s IVCF chapters in Central-West Brazil, covering over 20 cities and universities. Through this work, Carluci facilitated theological training and provided pastoral care for university and high school student leadership. Parallel to his campus ministry, Carluci taught courses in hermeneutics, Biblical languages and exegesis at local seminaries in the city of Belo Horizonte. During the same period, Carluci did translation work for World Vision-Brazil, which was not his first involvement with them, having participated in a relief project in Mozambique in 1984 to 1985 during the last years of their civil war. Carluci, Christina and family are active members of Knox Presbyterian Church; he serves as a ruling elder and his wife teaches Sunday School.

John and Deborah Bowen, Wycliffe College and Redeemer College John and Deborah came to Canada from Britain in 1977 to work with IVCF. For five years they worked on the U of T campus, and became members of Knox. When they moved to Ottawa in 1982, for John to direct the IVCF ministry in Eastern Ontario, they continued to be Knox missionaries. In the 1990s, John began an evangelistic ministry known as Dare, and spoke at twenty university missions around North America. Now both Deborah and John continue as Knox missionaries through their involvement in university teaching: Deborah is head of the English Department at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, and John is Professor of Evangelism at Wycliffe College, down the road from Knox.

Ann Chow, Inter-Varsity Canada, Urbana 09, Toronto, has recently transitioned from the operations director for World Assembly, a gathering of 650 staff from the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students.  Staff and students from 168 countries were represented.  Inter-Varsity Canada is a member of the IFES, and we had the privilege of hosting the world this past summer as they gathered to learn, pray and envision their future together as a worldwide fellowship.  You can view photos of the event online as well.  Ann has recently accepted the role as the Canadian operations director for the upcoming Urbana 09 missions conference co-hosted by InterVarsity/USA and Inter-Varsity Canada.  This will be Ann's 5th time as an Urbana Operations Team member and is excited about the increased responsibility and challenge that this role brings. Did you know that Urbana began in 1946 at the University of Toronto?  It was called the Convention for Missionary Advance.  Knox was fully involved in this momentous missions gathering and even held seminars in our very own church building.  When not involved with church life at Knox, you will likely find Ann playing Ultimate frisbee in the city parks in Toronto or enjoying spicy food in Little India, her local neighbourhood. Ann's blog

David and Susan Jeffery, Wycliffe Bible Translators, British Columbia. Dave and Susan joined Wycliffe in 1985 and went to West Asia in May 1987. They spent their first three years in a translation project, then six years in administration (Dave was field director while Susan was finance officer, then group librarian). In 1999 they helped establish a training institute for national translators. In September 2002 they moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand, where Dave taught in a Christian university and served in administration, and Susan served in various capacities in the SIL office (including Cashier). 

Rosemary Walker, AIM,  Quebec Mobiliser. Rosemary grew up at Knox and taught school in Dorval, Quebec City, and Chad. Since joining Africa Inland Mission in 1976, she has worked in the Comoro Islands, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Quebec.

 As Quebec Mobilser for AIM since 1999, Rosemary travels to Quebec five times a year, sharing the challenge of many open doors for missions in Africa with churches, Bible schools, etc. She has enjoyed taking teams on evangelistic missions to Reunion Island, Kenya, and the DRC. Last year, back in Bunia, DRC, she taught English in a Bible school and ran three English clubs and an English choir. Her prayer is that God will use her to call out Quebeckers (both English and French-speakers) to Africa in the coming year. She praises Him for Karl & Annie-Claude Tremblay (Labelle, Quebec), appointed to serve for a year in the DRC, and asks us to pray that they will soon have the support team they need to leave to work with children, young people and computers in Bunia.

 When home in Toronto, Rosemary continues to enjoy team-teaching the Sunday morning International and Beginners’ Bible class at Knox Church.  Prayer Requests: May many of our students grasp the Biblical plan of redemption and give their heart and life to the Lord, then continue to grow in Him, whether they stay in Toronto, move elsewhere, or return to their homeland. May we be faithful and united in this strategic outreach.

OTHER WORKERS [first names for security reasons]

Craig and Krista Craig gives global leadership to an innovative investment fund with a portfolio of business-as-mission companies in the Arab world and Asia.  Krista has a significant ministry in calling, training, sending and supporting Christian professionals from Canada to serve cross-culturally in mission.

Gus and Marliese

Norine

Serggio

Devanand and Rani

Angela and David

 PHASE TWO WORKERS

Laura Adeney Laura served in Israel for many years, having been commissioned as Knox's first missionary in 1951. She was initially dedicated as a missionary nurse to Nazareth Hospital in Palestine. She met her husband Ronald Adeney on the mission field and together they served the church in Israel. Ronald was the rector of the first Anglican church in Israel, located inside the walls of the ancient city of Jerusalem, just inside the Jaffa Gate. Laura now lives in retirement in England.

Eleanor Boyes Eleanor was commissioned and sent out as a missionary from Knox Church in 1958 under World Radio Missionary Fellowship to Ecuador. She worked as a nurse in the Hospital Vozandes Quito for 12 years along with her co-worker Beth Huddleston, before they both were transferred to the Hospital Vozandes Shell at the edge of Ecuador's eastern jungle for the next 15 years. Over these years she wore many hats in the nursing profession, including being Director of Nursing and also hospital administrator. After 27 years of service in Ecuador, Eleanor returned to Canada in 1986 and assumed the role of missions representative for WRMF across Canada for the following four years. Having settled in Meaford, ON since retirement, Eleanor is very involved in her local church and community. She has written a book about the jungle hospital at Shell called "Bridge to the Rain Forest," which is in the Knox library.

Eleanor Crabtree In 1965 Eleanor Knott went to India as a PCC missionary to work in the Helen MacDonald Memorial School, Jhansi. Being a graduate in Home Economics from Guelph, Eleanor helped teachers of home science make classes more interesting, provided many new embroidery and sewing patterns, and helped the hostel matrons make the diet of the hostel girls more nutritious.. She assisted in English reading classes, did accounts in the Manager's office and helped in turn with chapel devotions. After 16 years in Jhansi, she moved to Bangalore to join the Christian Medical Association of India's program of teaching village women better nutrition. She spent her final years of work in India under CMAI in Nagpur, central India. Back in Canada, she worked with IVCF, Ottawa, from 1988 to 1997. Her work was mainly with international students at universities in Ottawa. In 1993 she married Alan Crabtree, a school friend. Alan died on November 9, 2007 and Eleanor now lives in Meaford.

Calvin and Diane Dadian Calvin and Diane are officially retirees of the Red Sea Team International and Diane continues on a volunteer basis with FFM. Her work is writing the FFM Prayer Bulletin three times a year, answering people who write in to the Answering Islam web site, speaking and teaching at FFM seminars as required. Together Calvin and Diane still manage to befriend newcomers and to be family to those who are alone or new or afraid.

Ninette DiGangi Dr. Mariano and Ninette DiGangi were  called to Knox in the late 1980's. American born and trained, he had ministered in Canada with great effectiveness at St. Enoch Church, Hamilton, during the 1950s, where his leadership of the Board of Evangelism and Social Action of the PCC caused him to be appreciated in many sections of the denomination. After a period at Tenth Presbyterian, Philadelphia, Dr. Digangi became Canadian Director of the Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship. All of this expertise and experience he brought to Knox, until ill health caused him to retire in 1992. Ninette was born in Montreal. Ninette lives in Ottawa and attends St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church where their son-in-law, Jack Archibald, is the minister. Dr. Mariano DiGangi died at his residence in Ottawa on Tuesday, March 18, 2008.

Pearl Dobson Pearl's overseas missionary service began in China with C.I.M. from 1936-1940. Unable to return to China after the war, Pearl settled back in the United States, then England, subsequently settling in Toronto in the 1950's. Teaching at a girls' school, managing the bookstore at OBC for 13 years, and then teaching English and Old Testament in St. Vincent in the 1980's, Pearl's life has been rich and rewarding and a blessing to many. She presently resides at Christie Gardens in Toronto and Knox is her church home. Pearl is now 101!

Sylvia Dresser Ken and Sylvia are retirees of The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM) who served as Knox missionaries in Irian Jaya (Papua), Indonesia for almost 40 years. They established medical programs and saw churches planted in two areas of Southern Irian Jaya, and conducted medical courses for evangelists working in other isolated places. Local men and women were trained as paramedics and midwives who provided care in the many villages where they lived. Ken also led daily Bible studies for workers. Since retirement in 1999 until 2005 Ken worked in the Canadian Far North and as a cruise ship physician. Ken went to be with his Lord on Wednesday, May 20, 2009.

David and Joan Evans David went out from the United Kingdom in 1949 with the South Africa General Mission (later Africa Evangelical Fellowship and now SIM) to Rusitu, a location on the eastern border of what was then Southern Rhodesia and is now Zimbabwe . Margaret Campbell arrived the same year sent out from Canada by Knox Church. They were married there in 1952. Margaret was a nurse and ran the medical work. David had the privilege of opening a Bible School. In 1969 they were moved to Johannesburg where David became the Mission's Executive Director. From l974 to 89 he was appointed as Inter-Field Minister and had a ministry of the Word throughout the Mission for the encouragement of missionaries and associated churches. In 1987 they settled in Canada, initially to assist Margaret's aging brother. Margaret went to be with the Lord in September 2002. Joan served with the same Mission, initially in Mozambique, later in Malawi and finally at Rusitu from 1963 to72. She is also a nurse and worked with Margaret. From 1974 to 97 she served with Youth With A Mission, finally retiring in Cambridge, Ontario. David and Joan were married on November 12, 2005. They now reside at Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island where they are involved with a local Evangelical church.

Barbara Hanna Barb was born in the United States and studied nursing and Bible in Philadelphia. She joined (CIM) OMF after graduation and went to Thailand in 1954. Barb and Grant were married in 1956. They worked in South Thailand for 11 years, Grant in literature and Barb nursed. They moved to Bangkok and Grant was involved in OMF Publishers. Barb continued nursing in various places as needed. In 1988 Grant was diagnosed with two potentially fatal conditions and they returned to Canada. Grant died in 1997. Barb is retired and lives a life of leisure.

Beth Huddleston Beth was commissioned and sent out as a missionary from Knox Church in 1958 under World Radio Missionary Fellowship to Ecuador. Along with her co-worker Eleanor Boyes, Beth served as a nurse in the Hospital Vozandes Quito for 12 years and then in the Hospital Vozandes Shell for 15 years. Her responsibilities included many aspects of the nursing profession, including being Director of Nursing in Quito and nurse anaesthetist in Shell. During the years spent in Shell, a new hospital was built in which Beth was heavily involved. After serving 27 years in missionary service, Beth returned to Canada in 1986 at which time she and Eleanor assumed the roles of WRMF representatives across Canada for four years. Since 1986, Beth has made Meaford her home where she is actively involved in her local church and community.

Gladys Linthicum Gladys was born in Saskatchewan and became a teacher. Eventually she came to Toronto where she studied nursing and then went on to OBC for Bible training. Her call to the mission field took her to Lima, Peru where she ministered with TEAM until her retirement. Her duties as a nurse in Lima are too many to number. Gladys has settled in Calgary where she enjoys volunteering with Wycliffe and some community activities. She is active in her church and maintains regular contact with missionary colleagues.

Jim and Leona Mason, SIM, Waterloo and Africa. Leona went to Nigeria with SIM in 1952 and Jim in 1957. Their ministry has been in literature work, both in Nigeria with Challenge Bookshops, then with Challenge Enterprises Ghana.

While in Ghana they saw the beginning of Pastors Book Sets (PBS), and a Cinevan program with 6 movie vans (soon to be nine)  on a regular routing, showing Christian films across the country of Ghana. In 1989 Jim became Literature Consultant for SIM Internationally while based in Waterloo, Ontario. The Pastor’s Book Sets starting in Ghana, since then PBS has grown and spread through three continents, in five languages covering thirty-six countries. God used Jim’s vision for a one volume Bible Commentary and a talented team produced the Africa Bible Commentary, Seventy African Scholars wrote on various portions of the Bible.  We praise God for His blessing on the Africa Bible Commentary (ABC) for Africa and around the world. The Africa Bible Commentary in English was launched in Nairobi, July 2006, the French was launched November 2008. It is exciting to witness the ‘ripple effect’ of the original ABC. Other translations are being worked on and will be available in Africa – Swahili & Portuguese (Angola and Mozambique end of 2009), and Amharic (end of 2010).  Grass roots commentary projects with similar mandates modeled on the ABC, are now under way for the Arab world (in Arabic), South Asia (India, Sri Lanka – in English) & South America (in Spanish & Portuguese). Praise God with us for His continued blessings on the commentary outreach.

Jim has now completed and published the History of literature mission work by SIM in Nigeria over the last 105 years. This has been well received and is now part of the SIM Archives. He is now beginning to record the story of SIM literature outreach in Ghana, which covers 55 years.

Clarence and Cathy McMullen Clarence and Cathy worked in India for 32 years as missionaries of the PCC. The inspiration and encouragement for missionary service came from Dr. William Fitch of Knox church and Dr. Ted Johnson of the PCC. The Knox family has been the main source of encouragement and support. During their time in India, Cathy raised four children, did public health work in the mountain villages and at Woodstock Christian International School. She also acted as a support person for campus women and children. Clarence taught sociology at Baring Union Christian College in Punjab. He served as the director of the Christian Institute of Religious Studies. He was associated with many Christian and secular institutions. For eight years he served as the chairperson of Woodstock Christian International School, for 24 years that of the Landour Language School and served on the board of several others including the Christian Medical College in Ludhiana and the two universities in the Punjab. He has edited and written several books on interfaith issues, Christianity and the Sikh religion and contributed to many publications, including the St. Thomas Encyclopedia of Christianity in India and the Encyclopedia of Sikhism. Cathy and Clarence retired in 2000 and live in Richmond Hill. They have four children and four grandchildren. Their oldest son teaches history at Baring College, where Clarence taught sociology.

Dr. Glyn and Prudence Owen Dr Owen became the senior minister of Knox in 1974. He is a Welshman who had ministered in Ireland and England, his preaching ministry having attracted many young people who came to Christ in the counter-culture Jesus Movement, and who were longing for solid biblical teaching. The multiculturalism of early Knox once again began to be very much in evidence. Dr. Owen was greatly appreciated as a pastoral counsellor, while his loyal associate George Lowe went graciously in and out among the congregation, and in a special long-range way became pastor to the missionaries. Dr. Owen retired in the mid-1980s and they live in Oakville. .Listen to Sermon Index featuring 210 of Dr. Owen's sermons. [Site requires registration, but it is free]

Katharine Prowse Katharine served with SIM in Nigeria, West Africa from 1954-1991. She was supported faithfully by Knox all these years. Ministry?...."Jill of all trades"..... literacy, orphanage and catering supervisor at Miango Rest Home. Katharine enjoys a full life in Toronto and continues to make Knox her church home.

Barbara Rahn Barbara was commissioned by Knox Church-Toronto in 1965 for service in Thailand with OMF International. She worked as a registered nurse at Manorom Christian Hospital in Thailand for 23 years, and returned to Canada to serve in the National Office as OMF Books Manager until 2003. Now she helps with OMF Member Care for Retirees by keeping in touch with them and serves on the Candidate Council screening new workers for service in Asia. She enjoys her involvement in church and community activities.

Margaret Roth Global Outreach Mission, Kitchener Marg went to Costa Rica in 1969 to language school and then on to Ecuador at the beginning of 1970. She worked with HCJB for 20 years in various jobs through the years, starting as a nurse, and had her children there. In 1990 she and Dave moved to Kitchener and ministered with Global Outreach where Dave travelled around the world in installing communications equipment for mission hospitals and stations.. Marg went on a few trips with him but mostly did what needed doing at home and became involved with Operation Christmas Child and a group sewing outfits for AIDS orphans in Zambia and then in Kenya. Marg now sews for three hospitals, one clinic and one orphan group as well as several other charity needs. It has become more than a full time job along with a ministry of encouraging people Dave died in January, 2006.

Doris Weller Doris joined Knox around 1946 when a student at OBC. She went to China where she met Cyril, a Western worker with The Shantymen, and they were married in China. Doris and Cyril had a long and distinctive missionary career. They have four daughters, and one son who works in Ottawa. Doris and Cyril have had a long association with Knox and always spent part of their furlough at Knox Church. They are retired and live in Victoria, BC.  Cyril died on November 2, 2006.

 ON TEMPORARY LEAVE

Darla Walker Darla enjoyed 32 years of ministry with Campus Crusade for Christ of Canada before becoming the first executive director of Stonecroft Ministries, Canada. Since moving on from Stonecroft, Darla continues her ministry of speaking and ministering to women as God has used her in 11 countries. She is currently working on a book to be published next year. Click here to email Darla. Darla is on a one year leave from KWM and is working in a GTA seniors' home.