Our Missionaries.

Serving from Canada

David and Nancy Harper (North America, Europe, Africa and the Caribbean)

The Harpers started out as church planters on the island of St. Lucia, and then spent 29 years with Youth With A Mission (YWAM), mentoring and training leaders. They are passionate about helping other couples experience transformation within the context of marriage and are currently connecting globally with churches, and other organizations to establish an international network of marriage mentors who will transform marriages, families and communities around the world. 

Daniel and Chantal Gagne (Saint-Constant, Quebec – near Montreal)

The Lord presented a new challenge to Daniel and Chantal in 1999 when they were asked to start a new church in Joliette, northwest of Montreal. They moved to the area and started with a small group that year. Today the congregation of 80-90 people has its own building. In 2009, the church members welcomed Stéphane Gagné as their new pastor.

In the fall of 2007, Daniel and Chantal Gagné began the third new church plant of their career. In just two years, the initial small group has grown to a congregation of over forty people meeting in its own building. In the summer of 2009, God opened the doors for this young church to acquire a well located former Anglican Church building. It is situated in the heart of the church’s target area of 70,000 people on the south shore of Montreal.

The Gagne’s church has just finished an expansion of their current location, which will give their ministry room for further growth.

Mohamed & Saly Mohamed (Orangeville)

Rev. Mohamed Mohamed was born and raised as a Muslim in Egypt. He accepted Jesus as his Lord and Saviour in 1995, after years of seeking and searching for the truth. He believes that every Muslim on the planet deserves to know the truth that he found, and this is his mission since he became Christian.

Rev. Mohamed is the director of the Muslim Ministry Centre; a Youth With A Mission (YWAM) ministry to reach and disciple Muslims. YWAM (founded in 1960) is a global movement of Christians serving Jesus in over 180 countries with more than 18,000 workers. He is also the Chairman of the Fellowship of Faith for the Muslims (FFM). FFM (founded in 1951) is a prayer, information and literature service for Christians who are concerned with sharing the Gospel with Muslims.

Beside his role with these organizations, he has founded the Crescent to Cross ministry to help and support Christian believers living in Muslim majority countries who come from Muslim background.

Simon Marrable (Canada)

Simon is serving with SIM as a Church Mobilizer and Partnership Developer connecting with churches, building relationships and facilitating between missionaries and the churches. By joining this way with the people of the church, support for the work of God is being spread both here and in Canada as well as around the world.

Brad and Emily Morrice (Quebec)

Many people don’t realize that Quebec is an area that could be considered the least reached people for the gospel in North America. Brad and Emily are passionate about reaching Quebec for Christ. Brad is the pastor of Eglise du Plateau in Mont-Royal. They have three children. In one of his latest communiques, Brad shared his commitment to offer prayer for healing, in person any time a non-Christian friend told him of a sickness or ailment. The results have been incredible! Brad and Emily are passionate about planting new churches in Quebec. They cite a study that shows that the average new congregation will bring 6-8 times more people into the body of Christ than an older congregation of the same size. Pray for Brad and Emily as they obey God’s call to reach the lost in Quebec!

SERVING IN SOUTH AMERICA

Alex & Judy Muir (Bolivia)

Alex and Judy are based in Victoria Corner, New Brunswick where they live out their passion as ‘Missions Motivators’ in the Maritimes and New England States serving in Church Relations and Mobilization.

The Muir’s mandate as Pioneers Canada missionaries is to take the gospel to the LOGIN (Least Opportunity Greatest In Need) people of the world. Focusing on the Quechua nation living in isolation in the High Andes Mountains of Bolivia South America, they are strategically distributing thousands of Galcom solar-powered, digital Bible Radios into hundreds of villages. These radios are fix-tuned to a Quechua radio station in the city of Cochabamba which airs the gospel message 8 hours a day.

When not leading teams, they speak in churches and schools about the opportunities to serve, connecting those whom God calls, with the needs around the world. Judy and Alex thank Compass so much for your support and prayers as they continue to serve.

Brian and Sherri Wardlaw (Brazil)

While in Canada, the Wardlaws are regular attenders of Compass Community Church at the Shelburne site. They are serving with Ethnos, an organization that is committed to reach people throughout the world who have never heard about Jesus. In Canada, Brian and Sherri are training young men and women who are about to head out to work amongst those least reached people groups. Brian is a “missionary kid” who was born and raised in the jungles of Brazil. He grew up as part of the Yanomami people. In so many ways, his and Sherri’s heart and home are amongst the Yanomami. Brian speaks the language fluently and is using that gift along with his incredible appreciation for the Yanomami culture to help translate the Bible into the Yanomami language. Brian and Sherri are planning to go back to live in Brazil as soon as possible. They write, “There is so much that still needs to be done there.  Pray for wisdom, health and open doors.” For more info, see: ethnos.ca/missionaries/brian-and-sherri-wardlaw/

SERVING IN AFRICA

Tricia de Boer (Uganda)

Tricia de Boer is currently serving with SIM who is partnered with ‘I Live Again’ in Uganda. Tricia is helping to restore identity and dignity to war victims with trauma counselling, discipleship, training and resettlement of families.

SERVING IN JAPAN

Adam Pietrantonio (Japan)

Adam was born into a Roman Catholic family and became a Christ follower in university through the ministry of Power to Change. During a five-week mission trip to Japan in 2015, God placed a heavy burden in Adam’s heart for the Japanese people. Adam desires to see Japanese people come to Christ and enter into a process of discipleship, ultimately leading to a disciple-making movement where churches are planted and communities are transformed. The learning curve has been steep as Adam is learning both the Japanese language and how to engage relationally with young adults in Japan, where there is a unique openness to new ideas and ways of living, as well as serving the local church in evangelism and discipleship. Adam is serving with Fellowship International.