About Us
Millions of unreached people in Canada are in great need of eternal life through the knowledge of God and the power unto salvation of the Gospel. While many communities across Ontario have no Bible-preaching church, God is raising up laborers to reach them. Through Reach North, we’re sharing in God’s heart to see people saved by strengthening existing local churches and planting new ones where there is no Gospel witness, because God is “not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
Our work focuses on preaching the Gospel, planting local churches, starting evangelistic Sunday schools for children, discipling new believers, and praying for the Lord of the harvest to send forth more laborers. This work isn’t driven by methods or convenience, but by the power of God’s Word and Spirit.
Our goal is to see Canada evangelized in our generation, with a specific aim to reach the field by summer of 2026. Though God has called us to labor in this harvest field, it is not His will or plan for us to go alone. The Great Commission has always been a work of cooperation, carried out through the unified efforts of God’s people in obedience to Christ’s command: “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15).
When you partner with us, you become part of God’s great work in Canada. Your prayers strengthen and uphold the work, and your financial support makes it possible for us to live and minister in Canada full-time. Will you join us in sharing the hope of the Gospel with people who desperately need to know the saving knowledge of God?
Justin’s Testimony
The LORD blessed me with the wonderful privilege of being raised in a Christian home with a Christian family. I was taught faithfully from an early age the principles of the Bible and the oracles of God. Having made a profession of faith in Christ at four years old, I can remember being taught about how Jesus had paid for the debt and wages of my sin, yet I still didn’t fully understand what it meant for me. In 2012, at age nine, I realized that what I knew and understood about Christ had never driven me to profess faith in Him truly. God used this realization and the preaching of God’s Word in children’s church to show me what flesh and blood could not: that Jesus Christ came into the world that I might know God and have eternal life through Him. By God’s grace, this realization proved to be the turning point of my life when I believed in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and was saved from eternal separation from God. As I confessed my sin before God, He was faithful and just to forgive my sins and cleanse me from all my unrighteousness. Shortly after my salvation, I showed my faith in Christ publicly by identifying with Him in believer’s baptism.
During my junior year of high school, the LORD made it very evident that He was calling me into missionary service. I began to lose this call as time progressed, until God brought it back into my perspective in the spring of 2024. I was a student at Crown College, nearing the completion of my Bachelor of Biochemistry, which I believed would serve as the foundation for my life’s work. However, the foundation and security I held in science were soon removed by the LORD, and I found myself in a predicament. God graciously removed the future I believed was ahead of me to reveal that He alone would be my future.
The LORD allowed me to take a short mission trip to Canada in March of the same year, showing me, under the leadership of Pastor Kendall Wadley of the Near North Baptist Church, the great need for evangelism in Canada. The LORD led me back to Canada several times throughout that year, calling me to preach in the process, until I surrendered publicly to go to Canada full-time as a labourer in October during the missions conference at Temple Baptist Church. The LORD greatly used Amos 7:15 in my call to ministry, which reads, “And the LORD took me as I followed the flock, and the LORD said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.” I understand that I have no ability to serve the LORD in my natural man, but it is only as God has taken me and is making me to be what He desires for me to be that I can do the work that He has given me to do. Our mutual calling to serve the LORD in the harvest fields of Canada has led me and my fiancé to raise support to live there full-time. —Justin
Jill’s Testimony
I do not take lightly the privilege it was to be raised by parents who love the Lord and serve Him faithfully. Even from a young age I was encouraged to follow God’s will for my life, and to be sensitive to His leading. I was taught the Scriptures from a young age, and at five years old, I knew every Sunday School story by heart. I knew about Christ’s love for us, and how His death on the cross made a way for me to be saved. I also knew that, if my life were to end, my older brother and my parents would go to Heaven, but I would not. Shortly after, at nearly six years old, my junior church teacher gave a clear message of salvation at the end of his lesson. I did not yet know what conviction was, but I knew that I needed to be saved. Praise the Lord that a sweet older woman took me aside and explained the plan of salvation once more to me. This time, however, I prayed and asked Jesus to save me, and He did! It was years later that I obeyed God’s Word and followed the Lord in Believer’s Baptism.
In the years that followed, countless missionaries visited my church. Every time I saw a people group that needed the gospel, I wanted to go. Every time though, I told myself that that was not for me. I told myself that it was God’s will that I stay and serve in my church. I had already figured out my own will for my life and decided that God’s will could not be any better than my plans. That all changed when I attended Youth Congress right before my sophomore year of college. It was there that I finally responded to God’s call and surrendered to full time ministry. It was not until July of the next year that I made the decision to finish my degree at Crown College. 1 Corinthians 1:25-29 was a passage that I clung to. “…and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty…That no flesh should glory in his presence.” I did not feel worthy to be a student at Crown College, but praise God that His work is not dependent on my ability! It was there that the Lord gave me wonderful new opportunities to serve Him.
One such opportunity was travelling to North Bay, Ontario to serve with Pastor Wadley for ministry break. I immediately fell in love with the natural beauty of the country and the kindness of its people. However, looking closer prompted me to see its great need for the gospel. My heart broke for those who feel they have no hope because they do not know the Saviour who died that they might be saved. At the end of the trip, I wanted nothing more than to return. At the World Mission Conference in 2024 and after much prayer, I surrendered to missions in Canada. The Lord has allowed me to travel back to Canada for the sake of the gospel on five separate occasions. Each time, my desire to be there grows. I cannot wait to see how God will work though us for His work in the future. —Jill
“But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.” – Matthew 19:26
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