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Mike Love
Mike Love is a visionary leader whose passion is to see God move powerfully in this generation both here in Canada and throughout the world. He is the Founder and Executive Director of Extreme Dream Ministries known well for the youth events called YC, which annually take place in Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg and Belize in Central America.
Mike previously served as a youth and young adult pastor for more than a decade and then as a denominational leader with PAOC for 12 years.
He is now in his twenty third, year of full time ministry and is frequently invited as a keynote speaker at a variety of Conferences, Leadership Seminars and Churches.
Mike is married to Donna and lives in Edmonton Alberta with their two fantastic young adult kids.
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Dan VandermeerDan Vandermeer felt a call to ministry when he was 16. After high school he attended the U of A where he received a B.Ed allowing him to combine two of his passions; working with kids and math. This training led him to his current position of assistant principal at Millwoods Christian School. Dan and his wife Jacqueline have three children; Parker, Spencer and Madison. They share a passion for education and building leaders who impact their community. Dan and his family have been blessed by being a part of the exciting things happening at City Centre Church and anticipate that God has only just begun to reveal Himself. Dan currently serves on our Lead Team and finance committee and his desire is to apply the promise of John 14:12 to his life: "I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father".
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Omar ReyesOmar is the new addition to the City Centre Church staff. Serving as the Assistant Pastor he considers himself as the "Dwight Schrute" of City Centre! He was born in El Salvador and immigrated to Canada when he was only 5 years old. Having graduated from Vanguard College in 2002 he still considers himself a student avidly learning and re-learning what following Christ means. Before joining the City Centre crew he was a mildly crazy Youth Pastor here in the city. Omar felt like he was made the luckiest guy on this side of the prairies when he married Kelsey in 2007 at the Paramount Theatre! Things like music, movies, marathons, philosophy, controversy, pizza, shoes, books and undiscovered ideas both haunt and fascinate him.
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Julie ManolescuJulie has been on staff at City Centre Church since the fall of 2005 serving as the Children's Pastor for kids aged 0-11 years. She has a passion to reach out and touch people of all ages with the love of God and desires to see them grow in their relationship with Him. Julie graduated with her BA from Concordia University College in 2005 with a minor in Education and loves teaching children the word of God and how to apply it to their daily lives.
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Kevin MachadoKevin has served on staff at City Centre since October 2006. In September, 2008, Kevin's role changed from being the Young Adult Pastor at CCC, to being our Local and Global Communities Pastor. Kevin is passionate about helping people discover their passions, giftings and calling and then seeing them released to share God's hope and love in their world. He married Erin Machado in 2004 and graduated from Vanguard College in 2005 with a B.A. in Theology majoring in Pastoral Studies. Before coming to CCC Kevin worked as an electrician for a two years and felt God continually pressing him to pursue ministry. He loves music, playing guitar, having fires, Edmonton, and hanging out. He has a passion to see the love of Jesus running rampant throughout our community and transforming the world in which we live.
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Janine LundJanine was incredibly lucky to have been born into a solid Christian family with a lot of love to go around. For the first 15 years of her life, her Dad was a pastor, and through both him and her Mom she learned the value of Christ, and the importance of reaching out to those who are hurting or lost. Over the years Janine has had experience in practically every area of ministry and also been lead through some amazing doors of opportunity to touch the hearts of those around her. After working for several years in a very busy finance department, she felt the need to move onto a new job. Now working in the CCC office as the Admin/Finance, she has discovered that everything she's learned, both in the world and in the church, is coming together for this one position. Janine is greatly encouraged to see how God is moving at CCC and excited to explore her part in it all!
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Jared Robinson
Jared is the media guy. Originally from BC, but now fully rockin out in the AB. Jared moved to Edmonton originally for digital arts schooling, but has since been working in the industry building his knowledge and experience in video, graphic design, painting, and illustration. He is now stoked to join City Centre Church in building up the arts connection within the city and the church community. |
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Dave Johnson
Dave grew up in Red Deer in a strong Christian home. At the age of twelve he started hanging out with other delinquents his age and got into a lot of trouble. At the age of sixteen he had an encounter with God and would never be the same. That same year he went on his first missions trip to Honduras. It was at an alter in this small country where he first heard the call to ministry. Dave has a passion to see youth come into the kingdom of heaven, and desires to see them continue to follow Christ for the rest of their lives. Dave joined the CCC staff team as Youth Pastor in September of 2008. |