Sidewalk Skyline Podcast

Caroline Durocher-Bergeron provides national leadership with Mission Canada as the Coordinator for Québec and Francophone Canada. In this role, she helps identify, equip, and mobilize workers to serve francophone communities across the country, strengthening local churches and resourcing leaders for greater mission impact. She collaborates with districts and churches to address strategic needs, build bridges between leaders, and launch innovative initiatives and partnerships that reach unreached regions and populations.

Caroline has served in pastoral and leadership roles for over 25 years, ministering in Haiti, Vancouver, Montréal, and now Sherbrooke, Québec, where she co-leads Église le Carrefour with her husband, Pascal. She has equipped leaders through national conferences, training programs, and mentoring networks, and continues to travel across Canada to strengthen francophone ministry expressions.

She is the founder of VIVID Academy, a coaching and mentorship ministry focused on leadership development, and Valeureuses, a francophone platform that equips women. Caroline holds a Bachelor’s in Theology (Institut Biblique du Québec), a Master’s in Leadership (Trinity Western University), and certifications in Life, Leadership, and Business Coaching. She is currently completing a Master’s in Ministry and Business to support the launch of new and impactful initiatives within the Canadian church.

Susan Wells is a creative workhouse. Whether writing, producing a show or planning an event she puts her whole self into it. Since teaming up with Maury Blair’s Breakthrough Ministries, she has brought new life to an old ministry.

At a time when Maury’s public ministry was declining, she came on board to rewrite his autobiography, create new opportunities for Maury to speak and creatively use Artificial Intelligence to create a graphic novel and short film based on Maury’s ‘Child of Woe’ story.

In this interview we talk about some of the miraculous encounters and provisions to extend Maury’s ministry to brand new audiences around the world.

In this part of the interview, Victoria Martin talks about her street life, sex trafficking and her escape from the notorious pig farm of serial killer Robert Pickton. As she entered into witness protection and testified against some of her abusers, she also came to a new beginning as a follower of Jesus.

The remainder of the interview talks about the healing journey and new life she now lives.

Victoria Martin grew up in Downtown Vancouver near the infamous Choklit Park. From her mother’s midnight move from Montreal to British Columbia, young Victoria left behind a father involved in organized crime. But she was no safer with her mother who let men do things to her as a young girl.

In this part of the interview we hear her story of being a street kid who thought she had the world by the tail.

The seeds of her faith started when she visited an ornate church and met the priest. Thinking that he was Santa Claus, she poured out her heart telling him everything that she wanted and dreamed about.

Victoria’s life journey would be far from picturesque, but the presence of God brought her to her new day.

This is part 2 of my interview with Susan Keddy. In this episode we talk about the community impact of the ‘We Are Christ Days’ across Ontario. In these events, churches rallied together to host multiple sites for meeting community needs.

We also talk about how an opioid crisis came into her life after being hospitalized and the grace of God to get her free from it.

Susan Keddy has lived a remarkable life in Ontario and in Hong Kong with travels to Pakistan, Haiti and many other places. She is a catalytic leader that has inspired dozens of churches to empty their pews and go out on the streets.

In part one of this interview, we will talk about her formative years in the church, living through the loss of her husband Jim, her brother Dwight and both parents. In her return to Canada, God had purpose and plans that caught her by surprise.

Through great difficulties she has learned that God is at work where chaos prevails. In this way, the chaos becomes holy as the place of new creation.

Valerie Good is a graduate of Tyndale Seminary and a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists. She has been practicing in the field of mental health for 20 years. Valerie currently works as a Clinical Supervisor in an accredited community mental health agency.

She and her family live in Bradford, just north of Toronto. Her husband Rob was the founding pastor of Promise Church until recently when he took a staff position at Heartland Community Church in Mississauga.

Mark Collins is a consultant on church growth and revitalization and has been a pastor, District leader with PAOC Western Ontario and process guru to many. He and his wife Wendy live at Victoria Shores on Lake Ontario. Mark is a surfer, a sailor and a cyclist and a friend to me in ministry over decades.

Andrew is the Communication and Relations Manager at Open Doors Canada, part of an international ministry that has been strengthening the persecuted church for more than 65 years in more than 70 countries.

Open Doors serves the church through Bible & Christian literature distribution, discipleship and leadership training, trauma counselling, urgent aid, and Christian community development. They stand with the persecuted church in prayer, through presence ministry, and by advocating on their behalf. They also strive to connect Canadian Christians with persecuted family members around the globe, providing truthful research, information, and current prayer resources.

Andrew is married to Kate, and together they have three beautiful girls. They live in Mississauga, ON.

Anthony Freeman is an urban missionary in New Orleans, Louisiana. From his early days planting All Nations Fellowship, he became the founder of Bridges Christian College & Seminary, an affordable online Bible College with an incredible growth.

As a way to further expose students to ministry needs and opportunities, be started Compassion Corps International. Every year he takes teams on the road on short term mission exposure trips. Anthony is also part of Mission Advancement at Assemblies of God U.S. Missions.

This fall he brought a team of students for mission exposure to New Song Church in Windsor where I pastor.