Back Corner

Justin Allen is the pastor of the Salt Mine here in Saint John, NB, and a leader in the Generation of Prayer movement. Since his last visit to the Back Corner, Justin has married his lovely wife, Debbie, and become a dad. He shares with us what he has learned over the past year about God and himself through these experiences.

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Gordie McMillan joins us this week for a wide-ranging, unfiltered conversation that moves from gym habits and life rhythms to deeper questions of purpose, faith, and transformation. Gordie shares how life can quickly go from enjoying the thrills of weekend parties to being in shackles on the way to prison. It's through this experience that he has a powerful encounter with Jesus.

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Jonathan Lewis is an entrepreneur and author of the books More Than Money (2021), on the good stewardship of our time, talent, and purpose; and Deep Water (2018), about his faith journey after witnessing the death of his father when Jonathan was a youth. A devoted husband and father whose own family alienation spurned the founding of Fathers for Fathers, Jonathan volunteers, raises funds, and advocates for charities and community ventures that model strong Christian values locally, nationally, and internationally.

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Pastor Léonce Crump is an author, international speaker, and co-founder, along with his wife Breanna, of United Church in Atlanta. Along with a busy and highly impactful church and speaking ministry, Leonce and Breanna have five kids. Before committing his life to pastoral ministry and civil rights activism, Léonce was a collegiate All-American wrestler, nearly making the World Team, and was also a professional football player. He is a Massai warrior chief, has wrestled Cain Velasquez, and head-butted Brock Lesnar right in the face. But we would like to think none of these incredible experiences compares with the unparalleled joy of having been one of our speakers for XY this year.

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Pastor Dan Lamos has been serving Jesus in the Saint John region and at Kings Church for a long time. He currently serves Kings as a Sr. Associate Pastor, but he’s done pretty much every job here between that and janitor, though not in the sequence you might suspect. In addition to his faithful service here, he has been a significant influence on generations of Christians in general and on pastors. Dan’s ministry is marked by faithfulness, humility, gentleness, a hunger for revival, sensitivity to the Spirit, and, perhaps most of all, prayer.

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Sarah Kingston is not just a former employee of the legendary Gateway Meat Market in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Sarah is just about to finish her first year at Kingswood University, where she is studying Pastoral Ministry. Sarah’s journey to Jesus and to pursuing His call on her life has been pretty atypical all around and is full of conviction and inspiration for us all.

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Kirk Smith is the assistant pastor for Kingdom Life at Kings Church. Before joining this team, Kirk served in various contexts, including most recently as the leader of the Eastgate House of Prayer here in the Saint John region. The prophetic has been a huge part of his ministry for many years now.

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James Cann is a zookeeper at the Magnetic Hill Zoo in Moncton, NB, which is Atlantic Canada’s leading zoo, educating and inspiring conservation action. The zoo is home to all kinds of animals from all over the world, but most importantly, it is home to tiny monkeys. He is also a seasoned Dozen, having listened to every single episode all the way back to 1 BC.

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Marc Kennedy is one of the people in your neighbourhood. A mailman, to be specific. He’s also one of the people in your gym and probably the buffest guy I know. But beyond that, he’s also a guy who came to faith later in life and has been doing a pastoral residency with us here at Kings as he has been processing a call to pastoral ministry.

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At this point, Dr Ben MacDonald doesn't need an introduction. In the back corner for his fourth time, Ben joins us to talk in depth about sacred spaces, catering our worship services to cultural moments, and how to actually read the Bible. 

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