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Glen Madden – Member at Large (term: 2025-2029)Glen has been pastoring in the BCMB family for 14 years, initially serving as a Campus Pastor before stepping into his current role as both Campus and Executive Pastor at Willow Park Church. Before his current role, Glen was a Church-planting Pastor, Teacher, School Administrator, and Business Owner, providing leadership coaching, marketing, and communications expertise to nonprofit and for-profit organisations and leaders.
Married for 31 years to Sarah, Glen has four grown children and one daughter-in-law. He is a big fan of dating his wife, supporting Manchester United and renovating their older home.”
Les Riediger – Secretary (term: 2025 – 2027)Les retired from full-time pastoral ministry in the CCMBC family after 43 years in May 2024. Les pastored in rural and urban settings and as a Lead pastor and Associate Pastor – care, counselling, youth, Christian Ed in various locations. Les’s education was: 3 years at Bethany Bible Institute, 3 years at MBBC and the U. of Winnipeg and 2 years at MB Seminary in Fresno graduating with an M.A. in Theology. Alongside his ministry over the years, Les has been involved in MB conference work: BCMB youth commission and the ABMB faith team and presently serves on the ABMB faith team and the ABMB nominations committee. Les continues to preach once every 6 weeks in his home church. Les also led ministerial organizations in several provinces and was the chair of a pregnancy care centre as well as the impetus behind and bd. chair of a strong chaplaincy ministry in Brooks Alberta. Les loves sports and has played, coached teams at high levels in hockey and fastball, has coached several provincial basketball team champions.
Les has been married to Marilyn for 38 years and has 2 grown daughters who are both school teachers in Ft. St. John B.C. Les has a large library and he loves to read and challenge himself to understand practical, theological, contemporary issues we face today.
Kelby FriesenKelby is the Pastor of Community Life at Steinbach Mennonite Brethren Church, where he has served for the past seven years. He and his wife, Michelle, have been married for ten years and have two young daughters. Kelby loves connecting with people and enjoys both cycling and baking bread in his spare time. As a recent seminary graduate, he is honoured by the opportunity to serve on the seminary board. He is especially passionate about this role because of the positive impact the teaching church model has had in Steinbach.
Norman PoehlkeI come to the MB family from the North American Baptist Conference of churches, which is a German Baptist conference with much in common with MB anabaptist roots. I was born into, discipled and experienced a definitive call to ministry in the Ebenezer Baptist Church in south Vancouver. My mother was Mennonite and my father a Baptist, so I grew up in both worlds depending on which side of the family was gathering.
I received a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from the North American Baptist College in Edmonton, AB (now Taylor), and then a M. Div from Regent College in Vancouver.
I have served as a Youth Pastor for five years in Edmonton, AB, and then as a Lead Pastor for six years in Prince George, BC. While in Prince George, I experienced a clear direction from the Lord to plant a church in Calgary, AB (McKenzie Towne Church). This plant was formative for me as I saw God provide in circumstances that were beyond human capacity.
After ten years in Calgary, I was asked to lead Church Planting and International Missions for our Conference. This required a move to Chicago as the NAB conference is Bi-national with churches in both the US and Canada. It was my responsibility to bring renewed vision and trust to our missionaries, our international partner organizations, and to work with our Executive team to bring missional renewal to the churches in the US and Canada.
We relocated our International office from Chicago to Sacramento in my third year, and as an executive team, we rebuilt a new support staff, and raised new director level leadership. The work of missional renewal continued both in the US and Canada, and with our international partner organizations.
After ten years of executive leadership, and far too much international travel away from home, I resigned this position to return to my first love, which is leading a local church. The Lord graciously provided a landing place for us at Mountain Park Community Church in Abbotsford, which has allowed me to return to my family roots in the Fraser Valley, and contribute to the support and care of my aging mother.
Melissa and I have been married 41 years. We have three married children, and seven grandchildren. We love camping, hiking, and kayaking so a return to BC is a gift to us. And I love cycling in the Fraser Valley. God is generous!
Bruce GuentherBruce Guenther and his wife Lois became a part of the Mennonite Brethren faith community in 1993 in Hepburn, SK. He currently serves as the moderator of The Gathering Church in Abbotsford, BC. Over the years, he has taught in a variety of public and faith-based institutions across Canada including 26 years as professor of church history and Mennonite studies at MB Seminary and ACTS Seminaries in Langley, BC. His areas of historical expertise include Canadian religious history, North American evangelicalism, and Mennonite history. Bruce and Lois have been married for 42 years, and have three children, and 2 grandchildren.