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Staff
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Dan Allen - emailSenior Pastor & Elder
Dan and his wife Lisa have been part of Woodside since August 2004. Dan is passionate about communicating the life-changing message of Jesus Christ. He enjoys reading, hockey and golf, and watching his three children grow.
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Bob & Kathy Allison - email
Directors of Congregational Care
Following a twenty-seven year career in banking in a variety of Canadian cities, Bob came to Woodside in 1989 to provide pastoral care and administration. Bob and Kathy now co-ordinate Congregational Care Ministries. Both are involved in leading Bible studies. They have been married for over 50 years and have four adult children who love and serve the Lord.
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Randy Baker - email
Pastor of Student Ministries
Randy arrived at Woodside in April of 2006. From the West Coast, Randy’s stomping grounds range from Seattle, WA to the BC border. His wife Sherrie is from Markham, ON and their children, Alyssa, Jordan, Jessalyn and Maleah have enjoyed living on both ends of the continent. There’s not much Randy doesn’t like to do. He mountain bikes, hikes, canoes, snowboards and goes to camp as often as he can. He also enjoys drama, singing, reading, gaming and just hanging out with friends and family.
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Heather Bowman - email
Director of Children's Ministries
Heather has been a part of Woodside since its beginning, when she was three years old. Heather began her work with children at Woodside as a volunteer and joined the staff in 2002 as the Director of Children’s Ministries. She has a passion for helping kids grow in a meaningful relationship with God and each other. Heather has a wonderfully supportive husband, Orvie, and three fantastic kids, Jaron, Danya and Karis. She has a wide variety of interests including volleyball, baseball, horses, music, and spending time with her family and friends.
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Lorretta Fischer - email
Director of Worship & Creative Arts
Lorretta has been a part of Woodside since 2007, and has joined the staff in June 2010. In her role of worship and creative arts, she loves how music and th arts can connect us to God in mysterious and wonderful ways. Lorretta and her husband Joel have two wonderful children, Leighanna and Justin. Lorretta has a wide variety of interests including visual arts, healthy & sustainable living, hiking, geocaching and letter boxing with the family, gardening, and spending time with her family.
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Heidi Konig - email
Director of Connecting
Heidi has been involved in leading small groups and mentoring women since her teens. She is passionate about helping other people to experience God personally. She and Stefan love to travel, and her greatest travel adventure was leading a missions team to Rwanda (with a detour in Ethiopia). Heidi and Stefan have 4 terrific teenagers who groan at their jokes, and advise them on all matters of fashion. Heidi likes dark chocolate, a good story, and laughing out loud.
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Stefan Konig - email
Associate Pastor
Stefan grew up in Germany. He and his wife, Heidi, met there at the Torchbearer (Capernwray) Bible School, where they later worked for 6 years. Stefan has also studied in England, South Carolina and Israel. Following his years as a Bible teacher, Stefan pastored a small church for ten years. He works part-time for Way-Mar Inc. as an "ordained" carpenter. Stefan relaxes by renovating, gardening, fishing with his sons. He loves steak and fries, landscape photography, and his gorgeous wife.
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Carol McKinley - email
Administrator
Carol has been a part of Woodside since March 2003 and joined the staff in December 2006. In her role as Office Administrator, she enjoys using her God given abilities in handling the day to day finances and facility use calendar as well as getting to know the Woodside family better. She and her husband, Jim, have a lively bichon frise, Mackey, and enjoy serving at Woodside in the worship ministry and small groups. Carol enjoys music and spending time with her family.
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Jennifer Shouldice - email
Administrative Assistant
Jennifer grew up in Elmira and started attending Woodside with her family in 2001. She currently lives in Elmira with her husband Russ. Jennifer and Russ are both very musical and love to sing and perform at various functions. Jennifer has just completed teacher's college and is looking forward to teaching and working with children in the coming years. Jennifer is a very passionate person, loves a good debate, likes eating chocolate, and always enjoys a good movie!
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Lynette Weber - email
Assistant Director of Children's Ministries
Lynette joined the staff at Woodside in October 2006 as the Children's Ministries Assistant. She and her husband Rick have five wonderful children. Lynette loves singing, being a mom, thunderstorms, and candy. She is enjoying working with the Grades 1-5 children at Woodside.
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Elders
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Willard Bauman - email
Although Willard is often working at the N S Bauman Ltd plant in Wallenstein, he’d rather be sailing, or golfing, or cycling, or reading, or playing hockey or spending time with his wife Marilyn and their grandchildren (not necessarily in that order). In addition to serving as an elder, he is a member of Woodside’s Missions Team and has traveled to several international locations as a short-term missionary.
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Jeff Brubacher - email
Jeff, his wife Danielle, and their 2 children live in Elmira where Jeff works with Effective Edge Communications. Here’s what he says about vacationing… “Usually we land our imaginary float plane on our imaginary lake that shines like glass accentuating the ripples that stream away from the loon swimming gently at dusk. We are always welcomed to our imaginary cottage by the friendly bull-moose and beaver that take care of it when we are not there. After the traditional kick-off BBQ, they often play tennis or backgammon before joining us for a campfire. When it’s hot enough everyone loves to run off the dock and see who can make the biggest cannonball splash into the water – Moose usually wins. It’s always a lot of fun. You should come up sometime; in fact I can’t imagine you not being there.”
Thoughts on church…”When I look at Woodside as a group of Christ followers, I always appreciate the wide age range in the people that make up the congregation. I believe that together we create a balanced view of what church is supposed to be. Even though each of us is at a different point in life, both physically and spiritually, the fact that we walk together as a unified body encourages me to face the challenges of keeping Woodside relevant to our culture.”
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Graham Hill - email
Graham spends his work days at DeBoers Equipment in Elora managing the parts department and keeping equipment owners up and running. When the days turn warm and sunny, the lure of greener pastures draws his attention - particularly ones that involve a long walk chasing a little white ball. He also owns a motorbike, which sits in the garage more than he would like.
Graham lives in Inverhaugh with his wife Miriam. They have four wonderful and adventurous children who are either in, or rapidly approaching the leaving/coming back stage of life. He envisions many holidsy in the future spent following their children around the world in order to visit them.
Graham and his family have attended Woodside since 1996. He is excited about the opportunities that Woodside has to be used by God to impact lives in our community.
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Rob Martin - email
Rob and his wife Marilyn are long-time residents of the Elmira area and have four children (and a son-in-law). Rob works as an estimator with Way-Mar Inc. and is a biker and a musician (he loves to sing and play the guitar). He and Marilyn enjoy camping but a recent trip to Hawaii gave them a new vacation experience. Rob says that over the past seven years at Woodside, he has grown to appreciate the other leaders and staff, the diversity of people, and the music.
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Bert Menkveld - email
Bert and his wife, Heidi, have been part of Woodside ever since they came to Elmira in 1991. As their three boys came along, Bert naturally became involved in various Children's Ministry programs, which he continues to enjoy even though his boys have grown up. By day, Bert does electronic design work for Greentronics. On free evenings he enjoys playing badminton, tinkering with solar hot water systems, and just zonking out in front of theTV. |
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Scott Ruppert - email
Scott and his wife Elizabeth, and their 2 children live in Elmira. Scott works for an automation provider as a Projects & Administrative Manager. He enjoys family time which includes, playing on the WII with his competitive 6 year old son, trying to play Barbie’s seriously with his 5 year old daughter, hanging out in the pool, family outings, and dates with his wife. Other interests are growing in his faith, helping others grow, reading the bible, participating in a prayer group and then on the recreational side, running, and playing and watching hockey. Scott enjoys being part of Woodside and looks forward to growing personally and with his teammates at Woodside. |
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Noah Weber - email
Noah is a true visionary and he says it is “exciting to see the number of youth and young families at Woodside, and to see how the people of Woodside and ministries at Woodside can and will impact our community”. He has been around Woodside for 20+ years along with his wife Pauline. Their three children are married and Noah and Pauline are proud of their nine grandchildren. Noah’s work days are spent selling and organizing sports field construction projects with Mar-Co Clay Products and when not at work, Noah loves to travel.
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Deacons
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David Baker - email
David lives in his hometown of St. Jacobs with his wife Janet and their two children. Following their marriage in 1987 they lived in Kitchener and attended Stanley Park Baptist Church, Janet's home church, for 18 years where David was also involved in leadership as a deacon and church moderator. When he's not busy helping run Sun Life Financial's insurance business David enjoys long walks along the river in the dead of winter with his dog, and camping in the north with his family in the summer. Coaching his son's hockey team is a great outlet and David notes, "Hockey helped bring us to Woodside because we were able to make some wonderful connections while coaching boys from the church." David goes on to say, "I'm privileged to serve on the leadership team at Woodside during this exciting phase in our history. I believe God has great things in store for our ministry." |
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Kathy Barber - email
Kathy and her husband Andy have three daughters and have been attending Woodside for over 20 years. Kathy works during the week for an Endodontist in Waterloo. She enjoys swimming, fishing and cooking.
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Ruth Anne Bauman - email
Ruth Anne is from the beautiful village of Hawkesville and has been part of the Woodside community for many years. It is a real honour for her to serve on the "Encouragement and Support Team" and participate in a Missionary Care Group at Woodside. Working in Human Resources at her job and spending leisure time with her husband Cecil brings her fulfillment. Music, reading, outdoor activities, travelling and spending time with friends are a few of her joys in life. Ruth Anne and her husband have been blessed with three grown children.
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Ken Bott - email
Ken has been part of Woodside for fourteen yrs (time flies) He has a wonderful friend and wife, Grace, and has three children who went through Woodside youth. Ken works as a General Manager at a company in Waterloo and is presently involved in several ministries at Woodside. He enjoys spending time with family and friends at the lake and lending a hand to help others. Ken likes to be busy and his family would say he finds it difficult to sit and relax.
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Orvie Bowman - email
Orvie has attended Woodside since 1994 where he met his wife Heather, who is the Director of Children’s Ministries. They were married in 1997 and have three kids, Jaron, Danya and Karis. Orvie enjoys his work at Manulife Financial in Waterloo as a CGA in the area of external financial reporting. He is grateful for the opportunity to use his gifts in practical ways at Woodside to help reach the community of Elmira with the good news of Jesus. Orvie enjoys participating in a variety of sports such as volleyball, slowpitch, golf, squash and many more and particularly likes to go on outings and adventures with his family.
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Dennis Brubacher - email
Dennis has worked for Frey Building Contractors for 37 years and is currently a construction supervisor. When he is on his own time, he like to go camping and fishing and has a passion for short term mission trips. He is married to Sheri and they have two grown children. He loves playing with his twin granddaughters who live in Elmira and visiting his daughter in Northern Ireland. Dennis and Sheri have been attending Woodside for ten years and serve in various ministries. In addition to serving as a deacon, Dennis ushers on Sunday mornings and really enjoys meeting new people.
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Kirby Gingrich - email
Kirby has been around Woodside for around 30 years. He is married to Sandra and they have 3 children. Kirby is a sports guy. He will watch just about any sport (even darts) and plays both hockey and slo-pitch (which he also coaches). He enjoys camping, fishing, BBQ, and playing in the sandbox. He works with Marco-Clay Products as a shipper and at Woodside he serves in the Worship Ministry and at Kids Klubs. Kirby says he'd eat a good burger anytime anywhere.
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Anne Weber - email
Anne is a long time resident of the Elmira area, working as the secretary for a farm equipment dealership in Wallenstein for the past 24 years. When she isn't working in the office, she loves to cook and entertain, exercising her gift of hospitality. Besides music, gardening and walking, her newest passion is her motorcycle. In the past Anne has been a part of numerous overseas missions trips. Since arriving at Woodside in 1993, she has served many years in the kitchen, as a greeter, member of a missionary care team and has been involved with our music ministry. If Anne isn't busy, she is not happy. |
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Rick Weber - email
Rick Weber and his wife Lynette have five children and have been attending Woodside since 2004. Rick is an independent business owner in Elmira and enjoys golfing in the summer and watching his kids play hockey in the winter. He loves spending time with his family at the lake and on camping trips. At Woodside Rick serves behind the scenes in Children's Ministy and wherever help is needed. His claim to fame is that he resembles Russell Crowe.
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Bert and his wife, Heidi, have been part of Woodside ever since they came to Elmira in 1991. As their three boys came along, Bert naturally became involved in various Children's Ministry programs, which he continues to enjoy even though his boys have grown up. By day, Bert does electronic design work for Greentronics. On free evenings he enjoys playing badminton, tinkering with solar hot water systems, and just zonking out in front of the TV.
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