Leadership

Our Leadership

Our Directors

Dr. Chris Carr has served as Executive Director of Global Gates Network of Canada since arriving in the Greater Toronto Area in Sept. 2017 with his wife Eileen and 3 of their kids. They previously served cross-culturally in Russia and Ukraine from 1999-2015 with the International Mission Board.

Our Board

Brad is the Director of Strategy and Leadership Development and co-founder of Global Gates Network, as well as serving as NYC South Asian Outreach Team Leader. Prior to founding Global Gates, Brad led teams in Southeast Asia with the International Mission Board. Brad lives in NYC with his wife Sara and three children.

Narry F. Santos is Assistant Professor of Practical Ministry and Intercultural Leadership at Tyndale University and Vice President of the Evangelical Missiological Society Canada. He currently serves as part-time Senior Pastor of Greenhills Christian Fellowship (GCF) Peel and GCF York, after having recently planted Saddleback South Manila for three years. Before Saddleback Church, he ministered at GCF in different pastoral responsibilities for 20 years, including helping plant six churches in Canada and four in the Philippines.

Reverend Dr. Lisa Pak currently works alongside Rick Warren on the Finishing The Task (FTT) lead team. Her previous experience includes serving as the Regional Director for Ontario and Nunavut at the Canadian Bible Society, in addition to 14 years of pastoral ministry and church experience in the United States, South Korea, Singapore and Canada with a particular focus amongst the Korean Diaspora community.

She is a second-generation Korean Canadian and Toronto native, ordained by the Korean Association of Independent Churches and Missions (KAICAM). She holds a MDiv and a MABL from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and has earned her Doctor of Ministry in Leadership at Tyndale Seminary. Lisa has travelled globally and is passionate about diaspora communities and mobilizing the young generation to share the good news of Jesus Christ with all who have yet to hear.

April has served as a cross-cultural worker for 21 years with the International Mission Board (IMB) in Cambodia, India, and Canada. She and her husband are currently serving as team strategy leaders for the IMB’s South Asian Diaspora in Canada and the Caribbean. She holds a B.A. (Education) from Carson Newman College and a M.A. in Intercultural Studies from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. She has been happily married for 22 years to Jeremy and is the mother of five amazing boys.

The youngest of 5 boys and raised on an Air Force base in North Bay, Ontario, Robb accepted Jesus’ sacrificial gift of atonement at his grandmother’s nearby country church at the age of 8. However It wasn’t until Robb was baptized at the age of 19, that he began his discipleship journey. While in university, Robb met his wife Sara of 23 years with whom he has 2 awesome adult kids. From serving as Wilfred Laurier University’s IVCF President, to MoveIn Regional Representative to currently serving as Lead Pastor of Livingstones Community Fellowship – a church he and Sara planted after 8 years while serving as urban missionaries with MoveIn, Robb has been blessed to humbly serve God in various capacities for nearly 30 years.

Trevor Seath serves as Executive Director of the Ontario Mennonite Brethren and has served as a church planting coach, confidant, friend, and spiritual leader to many across Ontario. He brings a passion for raising up disciples who make disciples and a strategic vision born out of over two decades of ministry leadership in the local church, church plants, and diverse missional expressions. Before ONMB, Trevor served as the C2C Ontario Regional Director after serving as C2C Regional Mobilizer and as Pastor of Church Networking at Peoples Church in Toronto. Trevor was working for Royal Trust in 1997 when God called him and Julie into pastoral ministry. After completing an MDiv at Tyndale, Trevor served as Lead Pastor of Bridletowne Park Church (Toronto), and ministered there for 12 years. Trevor is passionate about serving pastors and church planters as a pastor, coach, trainer, and church planting catalyst. He and Julie have four children: three terrific daughters, and one fantastic son.