Church Planting

Our Team &
Director Blog

Get to know the catalysts and leaders serving our church planting movement and hear timely reflections, updates, and encouragement from our director as we advance the work together.

01 · The Team

The people walking alongside planters across the region.

Bechara Karkafi

Bechara Karkafi

Church Planting Director

Marc Soto

Marc Soto

Church Planting Catalyst

Hiba Majeed

Hiba Majeed

Director Executive Assistant

Bethany Madsgaard

Bethany Madsgaard

Communications Administrator

Aaron Ottaway

Aaron Ottaway

Church Planting Catalyst

Graeme Melvin

Graeme Melvin

Church Planting Catalyst & Coaching Facilitator

Greg Armstrong

Greg Armstrong

New Canadian Church Planting Catalyst

Armen Hakopian

Armen Hakopian

New Canadian Church Planting Catalyst

Jeremiah Thomas

Jeremiah Thomas

Church Planting Catalyst

Dave Carter

Dave Carter

Church Planting Catalyst

Jim DeMarsh

Jim DeMarsh

Church Planting Catalyst

02 · Director Blog

From the Director's Desk

Reflections, updates, and encouragement from Bechara Karkafi and the Church Planting leadership as we advance the work together.

Spring 2026

From the Director

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Thank you for your continued love and support for this church planting movement across Ontario, English-speaking Quebec, and beyond! Your faithful partnership through prayer, giving, and encouragement equips our planters to continue to bring the light of the gospel to dark communities, making disciple makers. As you’ll read in our church planter’s reports below, people are hungry for the gospel. They are desperately looking to the world for truth and love and coming up empty. But hope has come! By the power of the Holy Spirit and the collective efforts of his children, we have the great privilege of mobilizing the gospel until every man, woman, and child belongs!

As we reflect on the winter season, praising God for his mighty work in our brothers and sisters lives and softening the hearts of those who do not yet know him, let us look towards the new season with renewed hope and expectation that he will continue to move powerfully. And let us pray for our church planters, their wives, and families; that they “...will not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up” (Gal. 6:9).

God bless you and your family abundantly!

Bechara Karkafi

Church Planting Director