Murray & Laustsen Families
The Murray family — Aaron, Melissa and their two boys, Sawyer and Weston — came to Sioux Lookout, Ontario in 2015 from Southern Ontario. Aaron pastored the children and youth in our church for 4 years while Melissa worked as a Speech Language Pathologist for the Northwestern Health Unit and helped with children and women's ministry.The Laustsen family — Zach, Olive and their daughter, Sage — moved to Sioux Lookout one year later from Nova Scotia. Zach was a key leader for our youth and used his gifts for the building up of our church through worship ministry and Olive operated a private ceramics studio from home.
In God's providence these families crossed paths here at Calvary Sioux Lookout. A friendship began and a shared desire to see the name of Christ worshipped across Canada bound our families together. The firm belief that the message of the gospel must be heard and seen bound these families together. Under the care of our church family they began to pursue a missionary calling together. In September of 2020 we joyfully sent these families to Quebec to pursue church planting in the difficult mission field of Quebec. We look forward to Calvary being part of the birth of new churches in Quebec through these families.
Soli Deo Gloria,
Murray & Laustsen Fam
Paul & Joanne Janzen
Paul & Joanne joined NCEM as full-time missionaries in 2019, but had previously served since 1994 in First Nations ministry in northwestern Ontario and Saskatchewan.They now live in Edmonton, AB, close to their two adult daughters.
They are involved with relational ministry with many people whose lives they’ve been a part of throughout the years... while assisting some of NCEM’s new missionary candidates... also, taking calls on the Tribal Trails TV spiritual helpline … plus “Clear Lake R&R” (summer opportunities to host people in ministry, providing accommodations in Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba).
The Janzens continue to find opportunities to care for and encourage their First Nations friends and others serving alongside First Nations people.
Tom & Lee Castor of Clear and Simple Media
Clear and Simple Media is a ministry that seeks to help people understand the Bible. We do this by writing books and telling stories in Simple English.Clear and Simple Media began in concept in the late 1970s motivated by a desire to communicate essential biblical truths in complex cross-cultural environments. Today, after more than 40 years of research and experimentation, we write, publish, and distribute material in more than 50 languages in over 40 countries.
Our goal is to build a growing catalogue of materials that are linguistically simple, theologically clear and biblically faithful.
