The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada looks a little different as it launches into a new fiscal year on June 1, 2026. We’ve promoted several staff and reorganized our management structure to align with our 2025-2028 strategic plan, summarized in the new EFC tagline “Calling Evangelicals to greater visible unity in gospel witness.”
The plan has four ends:
- EFC Affiliate leaders will lead with theological soundness and prophetic imagination in the face of current and future challenges in the wider world for common gospel mission.
- EFC Affiliates will be effective advocates for the marginalized.
- People of all faiths in Canada will live out their religion freely and participate conscientiously in all sectors of society.
- EFC Affiliate leaders and others will unite for strategic conversation and creative collaboration, for peaceable and visible action in common gospel mission.
You’ll see these ends shaping the EFC to emphasize: prayer that God would provide more workers for the ripe harvest, equipping the churches and organizations formally connected with the EFC, better reflecting the diversity across our fellowship, and increasingly seeking feedback to improve our ministry effectiveness.
Here’s a quick overview of our new structure:
- Our president, CEO and public theologian remains David Guretzki, reporting to our board; he’s now on a summer sabbatical
- Ministry and public engagement, a newly consolidated department covering much of our core ministry, is led by Rick Hiemstra, newly promoted to this vice-president role; his responsibilities include partnership facilitation, continuing the work that had been done under the former Centre for Ministry Partnership and Innovation
- Other VPs include Cecilia Wu (philanthropy and affiliation, also newly promoted) and Karen Fishwick (finance and operations)
- The EFC Centre for Faith and Public Life continues its crucial work on Parliament Hill and in our courts, still led by Julia Beazley
- The EFC Centre for Research on Church and Faith continues its partnership-based research, now headed by the newly promoted Lindsay Callaway
- A newly consolidated department of communications and marketing has two codirectors, Joel Gordon and Bill Fledderus (newly promoted); it ranges over a wide range of video, podcast and print materials including Faith Today.
There have also been some changes among the teams supporting these leaders, the EFC has ended support for the former Love Is Moving youth initiative.
What does all this mean to EFC supporters? We believe having and following a focused strategic plan will make our ministry on your behalf more effective and efficient. It’s important our donors know that not only are we grateful for your support, but we are vigilant in stewarding every resource God gives us. The EFC is energetically and strategically living into our calling to unite the diverse evangelical Christian community across Canada and amplify our gospel witness.