A Place to Belong
Paul & Rose Dubois
Senior Pastors
Paul & his wife Rose both gew up in Manitoba. Paul from Winnipeg and Rose from the Interlake area. Paul and Rose have been married for 42 years and have 4 children and 8 amazing grandchildren.
They both became believers in Christ in 1980 and shortly thereafter began attending a New Church Plant in Winnipeg called Springs of Living Water Church. After working for a few years on the streets of Winnipeg with Springs Street Ministry Teams they became the Youth Pastors. They witnessed God take this small group of 12-15 young people to a place of growth and strength. Before leaving Springs in 1989 the Youth Ministry had grown to over a 100 young people.
In January of 1990 Paul & Rose along with a team of church planters planted the first Victory Church in Calgary. From there they served as Associate Pastors of the Victory Church of Brooks for 8 years. The ministry in Brooks was very successful and they saw many ministries established, especially in the area of Missions.
In 1997 they received a call to consider leading a church in Saskatchewan. Although they were not feeling the need to go, they decided they would pray about it and God began to confirm the move to their hearts. In September of 1997 they moved their family to lead Melfort Christian Fellowship Church in Melfort, which was later renamed Northeast Christian Fellowship. They have been leading and pastoring Northeast for 25 years and have seen God do many amazing things.
They continue to press in to take a hold of that of which Christ took a hold of them and firmly believe that Revival is upon us! We hold fast and pray this out Psalm 2:8 Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations as Your inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth as Your possession. And Isaiah 64:1-3 Oh, that You would rend the heavens! That You would come down! That the mountains might shake at Your presence 2 As fire burns brushwood, As fire causes water to boil—To make Your NAME known to Your adversaries, That the nations may tremble at Your PRESENCE!
Paul and Rose love to travel, go on dates, the outdoors, and love spending time with their grandchildren, family and friends.
Rose's favorite food is basically anything Mexican or anything spicy.
Paul's favorite food is nachos & pizza--- because it has all the major food groups.
Matty Toews
Children's Pastor
Matty was born in Melfort, grew up in Melfort, and now resides in Melfort. He is married to Crystal. They are foster parents and all together have ten children. Yes you read that right. Ten! Matty's family is from Melfort and Crystal's are from BC.
Matty worked doing construction for 10 years before he came on staff at the church, and he has probably worked for 15 years of his 17 at the church also doing construction. He did a 4 month internship in New York City doing children's ministry in 2001 with Bill Wilson's Sidewalk Sunday School. He also did one year of Bible College through the church.
Matty has always loved sports both playing and watching, he also teaches phys-ed at our Christian School. He loves family and most of his free time is spent doing things with his kids. He also loves to travel.
Matty's favorite passage of scripture is Luke 18:13-14 "But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest and saying, 'God turn your wrath from me- a sinner'
I tell you this one went down to his house justified rather than the other, because who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."
"It gives me hope."- Matty
Matty likes lots of food but there probably is nothing better than fresh baby potatoes straight out of the garden.
Valerie Billings
Accounting
Valerie was born in Alberta, spent her childhood and young adult life in Africa
where her parents were missionaries for 25 years. She has two sisters and one
brother who all live in Canada. After returning to Canada she met and married
Robert Billings, they moved to Melfort in 1982. They are blessed with three
daughters and seven grandchildren.
Prior to working at NCF Valerie worked at Ducks Unlimited Canada for 20 years in
Office Administration and Accounting.
For the past 16 years she has worked as bookkeeper/secretary at NCF, and is also
involved with other ministry within the church.
Valerie enjoys spending time with her family, camping, boating, hiking, reading,
flower gardens, baking and cooking. When time permits she also likes sewing and
cross stitching.
Valerie’s favorite foods are spicy/hot dishes, rice, most tropical fruits, coconuts.
Life verses: Isaiah 41:10 Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am
your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with my
righteous Right Hand.
Psalm 91: 14-16 “Because he has set his love
upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has
known My name. He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him
in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him, and
show him My salvation.”
Tara Montpas
Bookstore
Tara was born in Edmonton, Alberta. She moved to Beatty in 2008 and still currently resides in Beatty. Tara is married to Matt Montpas and they have a son Keaton- who is also now an adult. Tara's family is from Alberta and Matt's family is from Quebec/Alberta.
Tara accepted Jesus Christ to be her Lord and Saviour in 2016 during a Sunday Service at NCF. She then, went home and listened to the same sermon again and confirmed it in her heart that that was what she needed to do.
Since 2016, Tara started serving in the church including driving for Children and Youth Ministry. In the summer of 2016, Tara became a helper in Youth Ministry. This role then transitioned to being a Youth Leader and she has been enjoying it since then.
Tara enjoys gardening, camping, reading, cooking and baking. She also likes creating art, socializing (a.k.a. talking), and doing Beatty weather reports.
Tara's favourite verse is:
"And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death."
~Revelation 12:11
Tara's favourite food is Nachos.
Rea Foster
Administrative Assistant/Youth Leader
Rea was born in the Philippines and moved to Canada in 2008. She is married to Richard Foster and they are hoping to have kids someday. Rea's parents live nearby and she has two sisters and two brothers.
Rea worked as a summer student at NCF for three different summers and was an intern at NCF for a whole year. She worked mostly in youth ministry and children's ministry, but also did a little bit of other things.
Rea is now enjoying her work as an Administrative Assistant, while still working with youth and children. She also helps with the production of Northeast Unplugged and is never bored. :D
Rea likes to play guitar and is on the worship team. When she has downtime, she likes to read, clean, go for coffee with friends, go for a walk or drive, take care of her houseplants, watch shows, or just have a nap. Naps are good.
Life Verse: "Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding." Proverbs 3:5
Rea's favorite food is chicken wings!
Church Elders
Stan & Trish Forsyth
Trent & Wanda Derkatz
Don & Lois Gustafson
Eldon & Terri Tolofson
Ministry Leaders
