About Us

I was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. My entire elementary and high school education was completed at Rift Valley Academy, Kenya, East Africa. I moved back to Canada and attended University of Winnipeg, University of Manitoba, and University of British Columbia. Across the years, I gained friends in every province across our nation. What a blessing. The best of all was having Cathie as my wife for fifty two years.

During forty-three-years, I taught in Canada, Brazil, Bolivia, and Turkey. I have always enjoyed languages, from childhood with the Tugen people of north-western Kenya, Swahili, New Testament Greek, Portuguese and Spanish, French, Turkish, and now Italian. I didn't enjoy battling hordes of mosquitos in the Brazilian Pantanal swampland, or high inflation in Brazil, or altitude sickness in Bolivia’s high Andes mountains, or traffic jams in Istanbul, and crowded streets in India. But my interest in people led me to enjoy people in those nations. Increasingly, I enjoyed archaeology and story-telling. For eleven years, I explored Turkey’s ancient city life, and out of this exploration came seven novels about Christian life and trials in First Century Roman Asia Minor.

How blessed I was to participate in ministry with Christians in many impoverished parts of the world. My world-wide connections have taken me to more than 50 nations as a speaker, resource person, counselor, and writer. My passions include storytelling, photography, community development, gathering people together, and encouraging a strong family life. I'm blessed to have children and grandchildren and to be in frequent contact with all of them. Cathie and I spend time face to face with friends and colleagues in Toronto (although with Covid-19 this has turned more to phone calls).