Plenary Speakers
Raymond C. Aldred
Director of Indigenous Studies Program, Vancouver School of Theology
Reverend Doctor Ray Aldred is a husband, father, and grandfather. He was first ordained with the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada and is now ordained with the Anglican Church of Canada. He is status Cree from Swan River Band, Treaty 8. Born in Northern Alberta, he now resides with his wife in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada. Ray is the director of the Indigenous Studies Program at the Vancouver School of Theology, whose mission is to partner with the Indigenous Church around theological education.
Dennae Pierre
Executive Director, Surge Network; Co-Director, City to City North America and The Crete Collective
Dennae Pierre was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. She is the Executive Director of the Surge Network in Arizona. She is also a co-director for City to City North America and for The Crete Collective, which grows churches in communities of color. She planted Roosevelt Community Church with her husband Vermon, who is the lead pastor. Dennae has her MA from Covenant Theological Seminary and her DMin from Western Theological Seminary. She is the author of Healing Prayers to Resist a Violent World.
Workshop Speakers
Joy Banks
Joy Banks is an ordained pastor, currently working as a retreat leader and artist, as well as facilitating a sacred space in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside called The Listening Post. Joy is also a certified Expressive Arts Therapist, weaving creativity and healing into most of her work with individuals and groups.
Kim Boldt
Kim Boldt has a long history with Regent College. He started as an MDiv student in 1998, and began working for the Regent Bookstore in 1999. This led to serving as the Assistant Manager of the bookstore for 18 years before entering pastoral ministry. Returning to Regent Bookstore in 2023 as the Manager upon Bill Reimer’s retirement, Kim remains active in local church ministry and local pulpit supply preaching.
Rick Faw
Rick Faw has been a lead educator at A Rocha Canada since 2004. In 2014 he became the Vice President of Programming, and in 2022 moved into the role of Education Director. Rick combines academic backgrounds in science (BSc) and theology (MCS) with a love for the outdoors. His desire is for people to integrate their spiritual life with their experience of the created world. Rick, along with his wife Crista and children Jared and Zoë, lives and plays at Kingfisher Farm in Surrey, BC.
Katrina Grabner
Katrina Grabner (She/Her), RCC, RCAT, is an art therapist, trauma counsellor, somatic practitioner, visual artist and instructor residing on the stolen unceded territory of the Coast Salish Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) Nation on Bowen Island. She has a masters degree in Psychotherapy and Spirituality with a specialization in Art Therapy through St Stephen’s College. A deep belief in our ability to heal and move from stuck survival states towards more spacious places of thriving underpins Katrina's work. She facilitates online nervous system-informed art therapy-based workshops, groups, and retreats across Canada. When not working as a therapist you can find her snuggling with her cat or going for a rainy day walk along the beach.
Malcolm McKinlay
Malcolm McKinlay has been working with leaders, teams, organizations, and communities across the world for 20 years. He is a pastor's grandson, a pastor's son, and a pastor's spouse to Monica, his Regent graduate-wife. He has been working with churches, non-profits, and public services across Canada since 2019, supporting them to navigate their way through tension and conflict in as healthy a way as possible. His professional background is in organizational development and, beyond that, he has explored a wide range of disciplines in order to expand his ability to work with different types of challenges, including conflict coaching, mediation, complexity science, Theory U, facilitation, and systems coaching. He loves working for Credence and Co, a Canadian company that has a long history of working with churches.
Shadia Qubti
Shadia Qubti is a Palestinian born and raised in Nazareth. She worked in faith-based peacebuilding and advocacy initiatives through local and international organizations in Israel and Palestine for 15 years. Shadia recently completed a second MA degree in Interreligious and Indigenous Studies at Vancouver School of Theology, where she presented a thesis titled "A Theological Conversation between Palestinian and North American Indigenous Understandings of Land." Shadia is currently working as the Community Engagement Coordinator at Trinity Grace United Church in Vancouver, Canada.
Jodi Spargur
Jodi Spargur is a Settler living as a guest on the unceded Coast Salish Territory known as Vancouver. She is a Regent College grad (DipCS, MDiv ’03) with 28 years of pastoral experience. In 2009 she planted a church formed around First Nations families in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Currently, Jodi directs Red Clover Initiatives, working across Canada to catalyze local, sustainable connections between churches and Indigenous communities for the purposes of healing and justice. In her free time Jodi loves to be outside, cooking over open fires, camping, hiking, and hanging out with kids.
Amy Wilson-Roberts
Amy Wilson-Roberts is the founder of A Mighty Oak, a coaching organization helping individuals and organizations gain clarity around vocation. Amy is a certified professional coach and Birkman consultant with 15 years coaching and 10 years directing non-profits. She has a proven track record of working with leaders to drive a strong sense of team identity and engagement. Leaders and their teams are inspired to be more collaborative, engage in complex problems, and foster greater trust. She has a Masters in theology from Regent College and lives in the Hastings-Sunrise neighborhood in Vancouver, BC, with her husband Aaron, and three kids (Sadie, Beatrice, and Oliver).
Conference Hosts
Mark Glanville
Mark Glanville is the Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology at Regent College, Vancouver, and an Old Testament scholar. Prior to coming to Regent, Mark pastored for 14 years in both Vancouver, Canada and Australia in urban, missional churches. Mark has been bi-vocational, combining reflective missional pastoring with biblical scholarship. His recent publications include Improvising Church: Scripture as the Source of Harmony, Rhythm, and Soul (Jan 2024, IVP), Refuge Reimagined: Biblical Kinship in Global Politics (co-written with Luke J. Glanville), and Freed to be God’s Family: The Book of Exodus. He is currently writing a textbook on preaching. Mark is also a trained jazz pianist, is married to Erin, and has two children.
Fiona Watts
Fiona is the Executive Director at West Vancouver United Church. Along with keeping all things operational on track, Fiona works on developing relationships with other individuals and groups in the community to ensure that West Van United continues to be woven into the fabric of the local community. Prior to taking on her role at West Van United, she spent 10 years as a consultant with the Missional Network, walking with all sorts of church leaders as they discerned how their churches might join in with what God was already doing in their local neighbourhoods. Fiona and her family have called the North Shore home for over 20 years. She loves to sing and to get lost in a good story.
Worship Leader
Brendyn Dyck
Brendyn has been privileged to lead worship for over 10 years in a variety of settings. Prior to his full-time enrolment at Regent College in the fall of 2022 (MDiv), Brendyn served five years as a Pastor of Worship and Prayer in rural Manitoba. He has also been a diesel mechanic, YWAM missionary, and ESL teacher. Brendyn is passionate about cultivating a space for authentic encounters with Christ both in corporate worship and everyday life. Since arriving in Vancouver, Brendyn has been attending Strathcona Vineyard in the Downtown Eastside.