We partner with people who make a difference, both in Québec and around the world. When you give at Evangel, you help to make meaningful change!
Our Global Workers
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Hector & Ruth Aragon - Guatemala
Hector and Ruth have been ministering in Guatemala since 1997. In 2010, they became the directors of ChildCARE Plus (CCP) Guatemala, with a total of 182 children under their care. Today, they have over 500 children in their programs in 17 locations spread throughout Guatemala. They work with multiple schools, 15 local churches, and numerous families to continue to provide exceptional educational opportunities to the children while introducing them to Jesus Christ.
They host many short-term mission teams, while engaging in teaching and preaching in churches on the weekends.
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Michel & Louise Charbonneau - Haiti
After working in Ivory Coast for nine years, they felt called to this area in 1996, where they have built a school and a church. As the pastors of their Pentecostal church, in the capital city of Port-au-Prince, they organize and run a Sunday school with an average attendance of 700-800. Michel is also the principal of a ChildCARE Plus school that teaches over 700 students from kindergarten to Grade 13. The school seeks to work with the neediest families of their community. After more than 20 years of operating this school, they have witnessed hundreds of graduates go onto to obtain higher education. They have also seen many of these students and their families come to faith in Jesus.
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Stephen & Patti Hertzog - Slovakia, Eurasia
Steve and Patti serve as Eurasia regional directors for PAOC Missions Global.
Steve’s passion is to help develop leaders, mobilize church planters, and support humanitarian aid projects to transform Eurasia with the Gospel. He oversees and empowers 65 PAOC Global Workers who minister alongside national partners in 26 countries from Siberia to Spain to Irkutsk to Israel.
Patti’s passion is caring for global workers, national partners, and women in ministry, making their house a “second home” for global workers, national leaders, pastors and their families, and Bible college students from across Eurasia and Canada.
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Joy Johnston - Uganda & Northern Québec
Joy serves as Director of Missions for Pentecostal Assemblies of God Uganda. Her mandate is to further develop the denomination's missions sending—particularly as they take steps towards global missions initiatives. She sensitizes leaders about missions. She equips cross-cultural workers to go. She mobilizes churches to send. The ultimate goal is to add Ugandan workers to the global missions force making Christ known to the least reached—in Africa and beyond.
God's passion "that all may hear" shapes and drives her ministry. God marked her with this passion early in her ministry, as she shared the gospel with people who had never heard the name of Jesus. The impact remains fresh.
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Danielle Klingelhofer - Montréal
Danielle has been on staff with InterVarsity Canada as a McGill campus minister since September 2018. She creates home-away-from-home community for international students, building friendships while discovering Jesus together. Danielle enjoys being part of others journey’s towards transforming faith in Jesus! She believes it is such a gift to be able to share God’s love with others.
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Cal & Chrissy Krahn - Montréal
With almost 30 years of ministry experience, Cal and Chrissy have often been drawn to those outside the church walls. As urban workers with Mission Canada, based in Montreal, Quebec, they care for those around them who are lonely, hungry, or in need of some extra help. This can be through involvement at a local food bank, sharing a meal or a coffee with someone, connecting newcomers to Canada with helpful resources, or simply giving a granola bar to a person who’s hungry. They desire to embody "the Jesus Way" by living their lives based on the example of Christ - full of generosity, hospitality and love.
They also serve as the interim Quebec and Francophone Canada Coordinators for Mission Canada
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Laura Laaneorg
As part of her post-secondary degree, Laura did an internship in Montreal with Cal and Chrissy Krahn, serving at shelters and food banks and serving at Red Frogs events. She not only fell in love with the beautiful city, but with the people as well.
Laura has now returned to Montreal to work with David Ritz among the university, college and CEGEP students of the city. A main arm of this ministry is Red Frogs, a ministry that battles the binge-drinking culture of campus parties and provides practical harm reduction, such as hydration stations, calling Ubers/taxis, and even calling ambulances if needed. These encounters lead to gospel sharing opportunities and relationships!
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Pierre & Marielle Paradis - South Africa
After 17 years of pastoral ministryon the South Shore of Montreal and 15 years in Africa doing theological and missiological training, Pierre and Marielle Paradis now serve in West Africa, beginning with Senegal. Their desire is to see Africa become a missions sending continent: sending missionaries within their own boundaries, across the continent, and to the uttermost part of the world. The Paradis plan to minister in West Africa and help national churches to improve their mission structures.
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David & Jeannie Ritz - Montréal
After interning with a university church in Montreal for a year, David’s desire to impact the student population in Montreal only grew. During the same season of life, David met and married Jeannie who had a similar desire for student ministry.
David and Jeannie have now lived in Montreal since 2010 where David has been serving Anglophone students at McGill University. More recently, they have felt God moving them in the direction of serving Francophone students in Quebec as well. If faith is difficult on Anglophone campuses, it is even more difficult on Francophone campuses (universities and CEGEPs), where there is very little to no gospel presence.
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George & Eileen Werner, Eleviva - Europe
George is the Director of Strategic Initiatives for Eleviva. He has over 33 years of ministry experience, as a pastor, a national leader in Canada, and as an international mission worker in Europe. George and Eileen live in Ontario, Canada. They have four married children, whose families live across Canada.
Eleviva’s vision is for young Europeans to find true life in Jesus in life-giving communities of faith. Their model is to empower and resource national leaders in their passion to reach their city through the planting of new churches and faith communities. As part of that, Eleviva is committed to helping identify and train future leaders while strengthening the existing leaders and their teams.
Click here to visit the Eleviva website. Click here for George's latest update.
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Zhenya & Bogdana - Ukraine
Zhenya & Bogdana serve at a local church-planting, pastored by Vadim & Tanya; they have been actively engaged with church planting, working with at-risk youth & children through local ministries and orphanages. They work hard to create safe space, where young people & children can become healthy spiritual leaders in their communities & churches. They also work in partnership with Ed Dickson and his "Loads of Love" ministry.
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Scott & Melissa Williams - Spain
Scott, Melissa, Sophia, and Hudson have dedicated their lives to making a difference in the beautiful and diverse community of Barcelona.
Melissa is the Global Children's Pastor for the International Church of Barcelona, passionately leading children's ministry across all campuses. Scott is the Director of Expansion, focusing on church growth and development, ensuring sustainable projects and impactful community outreach.
Their vision is to create a nurturing environment for children to grow spiritually, to expand the church's reach and influence in the community, and to build strong relationships through impactful women's ministry and exceptional hospitality for missions teams.