Nathan Kapteyn | Guest Speaker

Nathan is a former pastoral intern at West Highland.... View Nathan Kapteyn’s Bio

Victor Akhterov

Rick Baker | Interim Preaching Pastor

Steve Baptist

David Barker | Professor of Pastoral Studies & Old Testament at Heritage

David Barker is a professor at Heritage College and Seminary.... View David Barker’s Bio

Deric Bartlett

Deric Bartlett served as Lead Pastor at West Highland from 1997-2004.... View Deric Bartlett’s Bio

Wayne Baxter

Dr. Wayne Baxter is a professor of New Testament and Greek at Heritage College & Seminary serving the church in the academy.... View Wayne Baxter’s Bio

Ed Brink

Ed has served as Elder and is our treasurer.... View Ed Brink’s Bio

Lee Brubacher | Former pastor of Worship Arts Ministries

Lee Brubacher served as Worship Arts Pastor at West Highland from 2001-2023.... View Lee Brubacher’s Bio

Nathan Budge | Nathan Budge

Nathan Budge was a pastoral intern at West Highland two summers (2017-2018).... View Nathan Budge’s Bio

Tom Budge | Administrator

Tom Budge has been attending West Highland for the past 21 years. Tom has served as an Elder and in other capacities. Tom retired from a career in IT Management in 2021. Since Marc... View Tom Budge’s Bio

Gracia Burnham

Gracia Burnham is the author of "In the Presence of My Enemies," "To Fly Again," and is founder of the Martin and Gracia Burnham Foundation.... View Gracia Burnham’s Bio

Paul Carter

Jack Chen

Jack Chen, Pastoral Care at Morningstar Christian Fellowship in Toronto. Jack was the Pastor of the historic Carey Baptist Church in Kolkata. During his years there, Jack and his l... View Jack Chen’s Bio

Dwayne Cline

Dwayne Cline is the former Lead Pastor of James North Baptist Church in Hamilton, Ontario. He served as Interim Preaching Pastor at West Highland from September to December 2023.... View Dwayne Cline’s Bio

Don Crowder

Don Crowder was Director of Administration at West Highland (2010-2017). He is currently serving as Elder.... View Don Crowder’s Bio

Nathan Ecker

Nathan is a former pastoral intern.... View Nathan Ecker’s Bio

Joel Ferreira

Joel Ferreira is an Elder of West Highland.... View Joel Ferreira’s Bio

Allan Gallant

Allan Gallant heads the AGORA Network Ministries who's vision is to equip, educate and engage the local church to the mental health stigma inside and outside its walls.  ... View Allan Gallant’s Bio

Paul Gerics

Paul, his wife Leah and children are members of West Highland.  Paul has served as an Elder and has served as Chair of the Board.... View Paul Gerics’s Bio

Josh Gilman

Josh Gilman is the Executive Director at Strength To Fight, a non-profit group passionate about fighting for a porn-free Canada.... View Josh Gilman’s Bio

Wyatt Graham

Wyatt Graham serves as the Executive Director of TGC Canada.  Wyatt, his wife and children attend West Highland.... View Wyatt Graham’s Bio

Michael Haykin

Dr. Michael Haykin is a Professor of Church History and Biblical Spirituality at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky and at Redeemer University.... View Michael Haykin’s Bio

Gord Heath

Dr. Gordon Heath is a professor at McMaster Divinity College. Gordon attends West Highland. www.macdiv.ca.... View Gord Heath’s Bio

Adam Hieda

Barry Howson

Dr. Barry Howson is the Vice President of Academics and Student Services, and the Academic Dean of Heritage College and Seminary. He has been a professor at Heritage since 2001, pr... View Barry Howson’s Bio

Steve Jones

Steve Jones is the President of the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada. During his over 35 years in ministry, he and his wife Marilyn have served in four Fellowsh... View Steve Jones’s Bio

Rob Kapteyn | Chair of the Board

Rob Kapteyn is Chair of the Board of Elders.... View Rob Kapteyn’s Bio

Jakob Koch | Pastor of Family Ministries

Rev. Jakob Koch is our former Pastor of Family Ministries. Jakob and his wife, Lorie, were both born and raised in Hamilton and reside in the west-end of the city. Jakob was... View Jakob Koch’s Bio

Sunder Krishnan

Tim Lasebnik

Tim and his wife are members of West Highland and Tim shares his testimony today. ... View Tim Lasebnik’s Bio

John Mackay | International Director of Creation Research

John Mackay was for many years a science teacher in both state and private secondary education systems in Queensland, finishing in the Prestigious Science Department, at Brisbane G... View John Mackay’s Bio

Peter Mahaffey

Peter Mahaffey is a graduate of Heritage College and Seminary in Cambridge and is the associate minister of Grace Fellowship Church in Toronto.... View Peter Mahaffey’s Bio

John Maheu

John Maheu has served as an Elder.... View John Maheu’s Bio

Dave Marttunen

Dave Marttunen, the Director of FEB International.  Under his leadership, our Fellowship Baptist missionaries have been refocused with the goal of establishing disciple-making... View Dave Marttunen’s Bio

Abdu Murray

Lawson Murray

Don Perkins | Former Visitation Pastor

Former Visitation Pastor: Don was born in Barrie, raised in Oshawa, graduated from London College of Bible in Missions in 1962 with a Bachelor of Theology degree. Married to... View Don Perkins’s Bio

Robert Plummer

Dr. Robert Plummer is a biblical scholar at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville Kentucky.  He has served in missionary assignments of varying length i... View Robert Plummer’s Bio

Dave Roberts | Pastor of Discipleship

Associate Pastor of Discipleship Blessed with a rich heritage of those who loved the Lord and served the church at home and around the world, Dave Roberts was born into the famil... View Dave Roberts’s Bio

David Schiedel | Congregational Care Pastor

Dave serves as the Congregational Care Pastor at First Baptist Church Calgary.... View David Schiedel’s Bio

Phil Seagrove

Phil Seagrove has served on the Board of Elders, as well as, Chair of the Board.... View Phil Seagrove’s Bio

Andrew Smith

Andrew, his wife Nadine are members of West Highland and attend with their two children.  Andrew is an Elder and is our Vice Chair.... View Andrew Smith’s Bio

David Stairs | Secretary of the Board

David serves as an Elder of the Board.... View David Stairs’s Bio

Godfrey Thorogood

Godfrey is a past youth pastor at West Highland. ... View Godfrey Thorogood’s Bio

François Turcotte | President of Séminaire Baptiste Évangélique du Québec (SEMBEQ) in Montreal

Our special guest at West Highland is François Turcotte, the president of Séminaire Baptiste Évangélique du Québec (SEMBEQ) in Mon... View François Turcotte’s Bio

Tony Wang

Today it is a joy to welcome back Tony Wang, his wife, Lin, and their two year old son, Josiah, to West Highland. After worshipping and serving here for several years Tony enrolled... View Tony Wang’s Bio

Stephen Yuille | Vice President of Academics, Academics Dean - Heritage College and Seminary

Dr. Stepehen Yuille is the Vice President of Academics, Academics Dean at Heritage College and Seminary.... View Stephen Yuille’s Bio

David Zietsma

Dr. David Zietsma serves as Vice President, External Relations and Enrolment at Redeemer University College where he leads the university's efforts in marketing, communication, dev... View David Zietsma’s Bio