Phone Extension: 206
Email: larry@bethanycc.ca

Sharon and I began our journey at Bethany in July of 1975 as newlyweds.  Sharon had just graduated from Western University with her degree in piano and I had just graduated from Wheaton College in Chicago with a master's degree in theology...

Phone Extension: 207
Email: ian@bethanycc.ca

Ian is a nearly lifelong resident of St. Catharines having moved from Windsor at an early age.  Four years of college in U.S. is his only other significant departure from the Niagara Region.  Ian is a “north end boy” having attended public schools there and subsequently worked for the Lincoln County and DSBN for thirty-two years as a teacher and principal...

Phone Extension: 213
Email: clark@bethanycc.ca

Clark grew up in a Christian home with wonderful parents.  He accepted Christ and was baptized at age 12.  As a teen, he worked alongside his father in his auto repair shop, a very useful life learning experience...

Phone Extension: 208
Email: bob@bethanycc.ca

Bob Baddeley and his wife Helen began attending Bethany in 1995. Bob is retired from Niagara College of Applied Arts and Technology where he was the Director of Allied Health Studies...

Phone Extension: 210
Email: phil@bethanycc.ca

Phil Kaethler came to have a relationship with God through Jesus Christ while attending summer camp at Stayner.  Through much questioning, exploring and often making mistakes along the way he has come to lean into God’s grace as his relationship with God has developed and deepened...

Phone Extension: 219
Email: martin@bethanycc.ca

Martin Nieuwets was born in St. Catharines, grew up in Virgil with his parents, his two older brothers and a younger sister and attended a Dutch Christian Reformed Church.  When Martin was 7 he saw how his parent’s new-found faith influenced them to overcome some of life’s challenges...

Phone Extension: 205
Email: laura@bethanycc.ca

Laura Shantz was dedicated as an infant at Bethany Community Church and has been attending ever since.  Laura has had a love for music since childhood.  She started piano lesson at age 5 and was a member of Niagara Children’s Chorus for 5 years...

Phone Extension: 229
Email: matt@bethanycc.ca

Matt first started coming to Bethany when he was in high school. Soon after, he started volunteering in Bethany’s video ministry, and then did a high school co-op at the church...

Phone Extension: 215
Email: tim@bethanycc.ca

Bio coming soon...

Phone Extension: 217
Email: mike@bethanycc.ca

Mike Hotson was born in St. Catharines and grew up in Lincoln and West Lincoln. Raised in a Christian home, he learned of salvation through Jesus Christ and gave his heart to the Lord when he was five. His parents...

Phone Extension: 201
Email: patty@bethanycc.ca

Having grown up in a solid, Christian home with a wonderful family, Patty learned to love Jesus at an early age.  In 2002, Patty and her family began attending Bethany Church.  Her husband Ron and their three children, Ryan, Matthew and Rebecca, have all been deeply impacted spiritually by attending Bethany...

Phone Extension: 218
Email: jayne@bethanycc.ca

Jayne first heard about Jesus at a backyard Bible Club when she was 10 years old, firmly making a commitment in her late teens to follow Him as her Lord and Saviour. Since that time, Jayne has been involved in ministry to children, becoming passionate about seeing kids come to Christ and living for Him...

Phone Extension: 215
Email: jtulloch@bethanycc.ca

I was born and raised in a Christian home in Northern Ontario. I made a commitment to follow Jesus at 7 years old. As a young married couple my husband, Tim and I began working with young people. Eventually my love for children drew me into teaching primaries...

Phone Extension: 211
Email: suzanne@bethanycc.ca

Suzanne Hilsden was dedicated as an infant at Bethany Community Church and has been attending ever since.  She can remember the days in the old church building when she and her friends got in trouble for running up and down the halls and photocopying their faces when no one was looking...

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When Dawn first came to Bethany in summer of 2002, it was the first time she had ever attended a church service. In the fall of that year, she made a committment to follow Christ and has been doing her best ever since to become a whole-hearted follower...

Phone Extension: 202
Email: kathryn@bethanycc.ca

Kathryn first began attending Bethany Community Church in April 1995. Since then, Kathryn and her family have greatly valued the teaching, programs and lasting friendships that have become an integral part of their lives during their time at Bethany...

Phone Extension: 201
Email: angel@bethanycc.ca

Angel was born and raised in Kitchener, Ontario, in a Catholic home. Despite an abusive childhood and broken home, God had plans for Angel. She received Jesus as her personal Saviour at a Mennonite Brethren Youth camp when she was 13; however, she struggled with the concept of God being her Heavenly Father.

Phone Extension: 200
Email: carolyn@bethanycc.ca

Carolyn and her husband, Tom, began attending Bethany right after their marriage in November of 1982 and have enjoyed serving in many areas of ministry.  They have four children, Joel, Robyn, Todd and Dale.  Carolyn grew up in a non-Christian home for the first 12 years of her life but it was a very stable home with two loving parents and two awesome older brothers...

Phone Extension: 330

I’m Mark Poitras and I have been a custodian at Bethany Church since March 2003. My walk with the Lord began in the summer of 1990 and I was baptized in May 1992.  The church I was involved with at the time was legalistic, and believed in extra-Biblical revelation as well as being works-for-salvation oriented...