A Family of Leaders, Building the Local Church Together.
MFI Canada is a national network of pastors, leaders and churches committed to seeing the local church flourish. We are the Canadian affiliate of Ministers Fellowship International (MFI) — a global family founded in 1987 by Pastor Dick Iverson in Portland, Oregon. What began as 30 churches has grown into hundreds across the world — including Canada, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico, Australia, Nigeria, Ghana, Trinidad, and Puerto Rico.
Our heart is simple: to strengthen leaders, champion the local church, and see revival spread across our nation.
From a Vision to a Global Fellowship
The story of MFI is one of faith, relationship, and multiplication. What began as a small gathering of pastors with a shared vision has grown into a global fellowship — uniting leaders and churches around the world to strengthen the local church and advance God’s Kingdom.
1987
MFI is founded in Portland, Oregon, by Pastor Dick Iverson with 30 pioneering churches.
2016
MFI Canada is established to strengthen and connect pastors and leaders nationwide.
2017
The first MFI Canada National Conference is hosted by Southgate Church in Langley, BC.
2025
MFI partners with churches across the globe, including Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Australia, East Africa, and beyond.
Meet the Lead Team
The MFI Canada Lead Team is a group of seasoned pastors and leaders who serve the fellowship by providing vision, direction, and care for pastors across the nation. They work together to strengthen leaders, support local churches, and champion the values that define MFI — relationship, autonomy, and accountability rooted in trust.
Chairman of MFI Canada and Lead Pastor of LifeSpring Church in Abbotsford, BC.
Founding pastor of Southgate Church and former Chairman of MFI Canada, now serving on the Lead Team.
Lead Pastor of Viva Church and member of the MFI Canada Lead Team.
Prophetic minister and founder of Speak Life Global, serving on the MFI Canada Lead Team.
Lead Pastor of Living Hope Church and member of MFI Canada’s Lead Team.
How We Do Ministry
MFI Canada is more than a fellowship in name — it’s a way of doing ministry shaped by relationship, trust, and shared vision. Our approach is simple: we strengthen leaders through connection, not control. We exist to see pastors and leaders encouraged, equipped, and empowered to build strong, healthy churches together.
This heart shapes everything we do and can be summed up in three core values that guide how we lead and serve:
Ministers Partnering with Ministers
Affiliation Yet Autonomy
Accountability Without Control
Relationship Is Our Method. Strength Is Our Outcome.
MFI is a fellowship of pastors and leaders who voluntarily connect for encouragement, vision, and strength. In this network, every pastor both receives and contributes — sharing resources, wisdom, and experience. It’s a two-way relationship where leaders look out for one another and the local church becomes stronger because of it. MFI Canada provides a structure where those relationships can grow naturally — creating a community of leaders who genuinely care for one another and carry the same heart for the Kingdom.
Together in Vision. Independent in Governance.
We believe every local church is designed by God to be self-governing, self-supporting, and self-propagating. Our role is to bring pastors together for fellowship and strength, never to replace their authority or autonomy.
That’s why MFI:
• Does not own church properties. Each church remains the rightful steward of its facilities and assets.
• Does not control local missions or church planting. Every church carries its own God-given mandate.
Even without centralized control, pastors still need a sense of spiritual family and a vision bigger than themselves. MFI Canada provides that family — a growing movement of brothers, sisters, fathers, and mothers who offer wisdom, prayer, and encouragement for every season of leadership.
Covering Without Control. Guidance Without Governance.
MFI creates a safe and balanced environment for accountability rooted in relationship. Every pastor remains under the authority of their own local church eldership, where true governance belongs.
When invited, MFI leaders come alongside to offer counsel, prayer, and perspective, but decisions always stay within the local church.
This model protects both freedom and health — giving pastors the gift of trusted relationships without the weight of organizational control.
Because at MFI, accountability isn’t about hierarchy — it’s about honour, humility, and heart.
What Makes MFI Canada Unique
From God's perspective, there is only one church. It includes all believers all over the world who have entered into a personal relationship with God through faith. Within the family of God as a whole, there are smaller groupings of people and leaders who God has brought together based on a common vision and understanding of His eternal purpose. Just like in an earthly family, each of these groups of people has distinct characteristics based on a common heritage, spiritual belief system, vision and focus.
Our Statement of Faith
Our beliefs shape our mission, guide our leadership, and unite us as a fellowship. The MFI Statement of Faith outlines the core doctrines that define who we are — truths we hold in common within the fellowship.
We believe in the plenary, verbal inspiration of the accepted canon of the Scriptures as originally given (2 Timothy 3:16; 1 Corinthians 2:13).
We believe in the Eternal Godhead who has revealed Himself as ONE God existing in THREE persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, distinguishable but indivisible (Matthew 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14).
We believe in the creation, test and fall of man as recorded in Genesis; man’s total spiritual depravity and inability to attain to divine righteousness (Romans 5:12, 18).
We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour of men, conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, very God and very man (Luke 1:26-35; John 1:18; Isaiah 7:14; 9:6).
We believe Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again the third day, and personally appeared to His disciples (1 Corinthians 15:1-4; Romans 4:25).
We believe that the gifts of the Spirit enumerated in 1 Corinthians 12:7-11 are We believe in the bodily ascension of Jesus to heaven, His exaltation and personal, literal and bodily coming again the second time for the Church (John 14:2-3; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18).
We believe in the salvation of sinners by grace, through repentance and faith in the perfect and sufficient work of the cross of Calvary, by which we obtain remission of sins (Ephesians 2:8-9; Hebrews 9:12; Romans 5:11).
We believe in the necessity of water baptism by immersion in the name of the eternal Godhead in order to fulfill the command of Christ (Matthew 28:19; Acts 2:36-39; 19:1-6).
We believe in the baptism of the Holy Spirit as a distinct aspect of the Christian foundational experience with the primary evidence of speaking in tongues as well as evidences such as empowerment to witness, to conquer sin and to live a holy life (Acts 2:1-4; 8:14-17; 10:44-46; 19:6, Galatians 3:14-15).
We believe in the operation of the gifts of the Spirit as enumerated in 1 Corinthians 12-14, manifested in the Early Church.
We believe in the Spirit-filled life, a life of separation from the world and perfecting of holiness in the fear of God as an expression of Christian faith (Ephesians 5:18; 2 Corinthians 6:14; 7:1).
We believe in the healing of the body by divine power, or divine healing in its varied aspects as practiced in the Early Church (Acts 4:30; Romans 8:11; 1 Corinthians 12:9; James 5:14).
We believe in the Table of the Lord, commonly called Communion or the Lord’s Supper, for believers (1 Corinthians 11:23-32).
We believe in eternal life for believers (John 5:24; 3:16) and eternal punishment for unbelievers (Mark 9:43-48; 2 Thessalonians 1:9; Revelation 20:10-15).
We believe in the reality and personality of Satan and eternal judgment of Satan and his angels (Matthew 25:41; Revelation 20:10-15).
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