Glenn Peterson, president and superintendent of the Evangelical Covenant Church of Canada, is transitioning to the role of senior director of church planting for the Evangelical Covenant Church.
In this role, he will lead a team to work closely with conferences to identify, train, and equip planters as they launch their churches. He will serve alongside the senior director of church development and evangelism and a newly created position of director of equipping servant leaders.
Glenn has served in his current role for six and a half years. Previously he served the Canada Covenant Church as director of church planting; Hope Community Covenant Church in Strathmore, Alberta, and Lighthouse Community Church in Sarnia, Ontario, as lead pastor; Emmanuel Evangelical Covenant Church in South Surrey, British Columbia, as pastor to youth and families; and at Covenant Bible College. He is passionate about seeing people and communities grow as disciples and embrace the call of Jesus in their lives.
“Glenn will help us support a new generation of church planters committed to reaching the world for Christ,” said Paul Robinson, executive minister of Serve Locally.
Committed to creatively leading, collaborating, and inviting the church to be the church, Glenn has spent much of the last 15 years of ministry casting a vision for a fresh expression of the church, engaging post-Christian culture, raising up next-generation leaders, urgently pursuing missional opportunities, and praying for Spirit-led renewal.
“Having grown up in the Covenant church in Muskegon, Michigan, I value the ethos, identity, story, and heart of the Covenant and long to see our family of churches continue to grow and embrace our identity as mission friends,” he says.
Glenn is ordained with the Covenant and studied at Regent College (MCS), North Park Theological Seminary (Covenant Orientation), Trinity Western University (BA Christianity and Culture), and Covenant Bible College.
He is married to Bekah, and they have four children—Ella (16), Soren (14), Jonas (11), and Greta (9). They currently live in Strathmore, Alberta. He will begin his new role on December 2.
