Connecting Points Magazine Fall 2018

CONNECTING POINTS | FALL 2018
NEW ON STAFF
ROB BEDARD
ASSOCIATE PASTOR, SERVE
At 14 years old, I began following Jesus. But it was years later
that I realized how well my Ottawa-area home church, Woodvale
Pentecostal Church, taught and modelled that knowing
and loving Jesus are inseparable from serving Jesus. This
truth both formed and informed my life and leadership.
Months after beginning to walk with Jesus, I met and fell in
love with my future wife, Lorinda. In August, 1990 I married the
love of my life! We are extremely proud parents of two grown
sons, Cameron and Stephen. In July 2018, we welcomed to our
family a daughter-in-law, Stephen’s lovely bride, Lisa.
I pastored youth in Ontario, and served as District Ministries
Director in the Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario
District Office of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada,
also serving as Lead Pastor in Manitoba and on Vancouver
Island. After completing higher education specializing
in leadership, I sensed God’s call to assist a large church in
three specific areas: volunteer leadership development; a
School of Ministry; and staff leadership development.
Before CLA, I served as Leadership Development Pastor
at Beulah Alliance Church in Edmonton, Alberta. Fostering a
serving culture, I focused on the first of three areas I believed
God had called me into: leadership development of volunteers.
I am now poised to fulfill God’s call on my life and ministry
at CLA, joining the pastoral ranks as Associate Pastor
(Serve), to help foster a serving culture, develop volunteer
leaders, retool CLA’s School of Ministry, and develop our staff.
What drives my ministry is a deep-seated conviction that
all believers are commissioned by God to develop both spiritually
and in service to God, His church and His world. My
ministry mission is deeply rooted in the Ephesians 4 Mandate:
Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the
evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his
people for works of service, so that the body of
Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the
faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and
become mature, attaining to the whole measure of
the fullness of Christ. (Eph: 4:11-13)
Rob & Lorinda Bedard
In faithful service,
PASTOR ROB BEDARD
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