Ben Vanderheide joined our pastoral team May 2021. Ben is no stranger to Anglicanism. When he came to faith in 2003, he worshipped at St. George’s (now St. Peter and St. Paul’s), served for 3 years as an Artizo Intern at St. Alban’s (now Church of the Messiah), worked for 1 year as an assistant Artizo trainer at St. John’s Shaughnessy (now St. John’s Vancouver). For 8.5 years, he served as the pastor of Lakefield Baptist Church (Lakefield Ontario), and has come to us out of a longing to hold together an evangelical-sacramental-charismatic way of being and making disciples of Jesus Christ. His life verse: “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you abide in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:5 Ben is a graduate from Regent College Vancouver (MDiv) and he is currently enrolled at Tyndale University Toronto studying Spiritual Formation (DMin).