Our Team

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 lead MAC’s outreach to New Canadians from Africa and the Middle East. MAC’s focus is to strengthen the African Canadian Church, share the Good News of the Jesus Christ with our immigrants and refugees, and ignite a passion for mission among New Canadian believers. Browns oversee MAC’s growing Bible camp ministry, ESL outreach, neighbourhood evangelism, online Bible studies, and refugee settlement. Soon they hope to expand MAC’s sports outreach, prison ministries, and witness to Canada’s international students. Their three sons and their wives have made John and Jennifer grandparents ten times over. 

 launched their cross-cultural ministry in the country of Chad in northern Africa. They fell in love with the African continent and made many friends among their Muslim neighbours. God then led them back to Manitoba to serve refugees and immigrants in Winnipeg. Brett works in groups and one-on-one with young men who are studying English, learning how to drive, and adapting to life in Canada. Candace helps refugees come to Canada and then make this country home through the services of Naomi House in downtown Winnipeg. The Loewens have four energetic children. 

 also lived and worked in Africa before developing MAC work in Canada. Shortly after their marriage they left Southern Ontario to teach in national schools and provide medical assistance to various tribes in Northern Kenya. Following a serious tribal conflict, Jay, Laura and their five children returned home to Brantford, Ontario. There they retooled and started work with immigrants in the Maritimes. While continuing to raise funds for medical needs in rural Kenya, Laura works as a Nurse Practitioner in a youth detention centre in Nova Scotia, and Jay coordinates monthly fellowships with international students at Acadia University. Jay, Laura and their crew of five also lead a 1-week overnight camp each summer for the kids of African immigrants. 

Fifteen years ago Sally took on a six-month assignment teaching young people in one of Namibia’s most impoverished townships. Returning to Toronto she picked up her own jewelry business and acting career and married David, who had started a graphics and video production business. They connected with MAC almost from its start in 2015, spearheading development of our camp work, fundraising, and website and PR materials. They have been blessed with two little girls.

G and K first learned to work in a new language and culture while church planting in north central Africa. While there they practiced their French and studied Arabic, and then relocated to East End Montreal. Seeing a huge desire for francophone immigrants to learn English, they began an ESL program which now boasts dozens of students among Quebec’s North African immigrants—and other students from as far afield as Toronto, the Middle East and Europe. Through the fall and winter they organize a monthly drop-in for African children, and in the summer they host a day camp. All this in partnership with a large network of Evangelical churches across the city. This is just fine with their three kids—who get to make new friends and have lots of fun themselves 

 had successful careers in Toronto before heading out for two adventure-filled years of Christian ministry on the coast of northern Mozambique, on the Indian Ocean. Looking ahead to the birth of their son , they returned to Toronto with an undiminished desire to make Christ known among New Canadians. From their base in Markham, Ontario, V uses his web skills to share the Gospel over the internet. G is adept at making new friends as she meets and shares her love for Jesus with immigrant Moms. Both G & V also teach English to newcomers to Canada.