Linguistics
North American Worldview
Chapels

Todd and his wife Rebekah are both from Maryland but met in Wisconsin at a dinner for international students. Todd has a BA in architecture from Clemson University and a masters in architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Becoming an architect and designing buildings looked like a promising career, but God had other plans. Todd and Rebekah realized that the Lord is working on a more enduring building project – His global Church. Since before they were married in 2009, they wanted to be part of reaching unreached people groups with the gospel of Jesus Christ.

After working for 5 years in the new construction plumbing industry and paying off student loans, Todd and his growing family returned to Wisconsin to attend Ethnos360 Bible Institute and later enrolled at Emanate in 2017. In 2019, they were invited to join the Ethnos Canada team in Durham – Todd teaching at Emanate, and Rebekah teaching at Ethnos Academy. They are excited for this opportunity to invest in the next generation of cross-cultural missionaries and their families.

Todd serves on the Emanate chapel team and the Academic Coordinating team and will be teaching linguistics classes. He also oversees Emanate’s social media.

Education:

Bachelor of Intercultural Ministries – New Tribes Bible Institute & Missionary Training Centre
Graduate Certificate in Linguistics – Texas Tech University

Relationship Principles

Edwin Esau is on the Executive Leadership Team of Ethnos Canada. Serving as Director of Personnel he provides oversight and encouragement to Ethnos Canada missionaries.

Edwin was born in Manitoba and raised by godly parents on a dairy farm. His passion for serving the Lord was evidenced as he left the farm to prepare for missionary service with Ethnos. Not being able to serve overseas due to his wife’s health, he and Annette served as missionary trainers at the Ethnos Canada missionary training centre for over 21 years. His desire to disciple and teach was fulfilled in preparing missionaries for their service and in his teaching in his local church. Returning to Steinbach in 2005 to provide missionary care with Ethnos Canada gave him opportunity to serve in leadership with his sending church. In 2010 he was asked to serve on the leadership team and returned to Durham, Ontario.

Edwin and Annette live in the town of Durham and have two children who are grown and have their own families.

Director of Off the Grid program
Basic maintenance in the Afternoon Work Program
Teamwork

Mike came to know the Lord at 23 years of age. He was 37 and working on electrical/instrument maintenance at a refinery when the Lord directed him and his wife Beth to study at New Tribes Bible Institute in Waukesha, WI. The Lord then led them and their four children to Venezuela in 1999 to serve at the mission school base. When government unrest forced them to leave the field, they returned to the Bible School (Waukesha) in 2006 to do maintenance. In 2008 Mike, Beth, and their youngest child went to Papua New Guinea for eight years. While serving overseas Mike was involved in just about every possible area of support work including maintenance, teaching high school math, administration, supply buying, business office, guest house, overseeing national workers, and more. After returning to Canada and a time of recovery, they began serving at the missionary training centre in 2017. Mike is mainly involved in discipleship and preparing students for equipment and home maintenance overseas. He and Beth are blessed with eleven grandchildren and enjoy any time they get to spend with them.

Foundations for Church Planting
Family Life: Parenting

Brian, with his family, served 23 years with New Tribes Mission. While serving in a remote indigenous village in Brazil he was involved in church planting, Bible teaching, and Bible translation. He was also involved in the National Training Program where he helped train Brazilians to do cross cultural church planting. In 2008 their home church in Canada experienced a crisis and asked Brian to pastor the church. This he did until the summer of 2016. Brian has a passion to equip others to go cross culturally with the glorious message of God’s grace, which he is privileged to do at Emanate as one of the instructors.

Education:

Bachelor of Intercultural Ministries – New Tribes Bible Institute & Missionary Training Centre
Ordained minister with Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches of Canada

Karen was born into New Tribes Mission, grew up in Panama as a missionary kid, and now calls Varney, Ontario home. She and her husband, Shane served a total of 8 years in Asia Pacific with the majority of her ministry being administrative in nature. They joined the training staff again in the summer of 2012 and she has filled an administrative role since then. Karen enjoys the opportunity she has with the students, especially through the One-On-One program and the Jungle Camp Practicum that takes place in the summer.

Education:

• Bachelor of Science in Bible with Elementary Education
• Bachelor of Intercultural Ministries – New Tribes Mission

 

• Missionary Technology
• Digital Security

After coming to salvation in their late thirties, Roland and his wife Jinni knew they should be engaged in the ministry of the gospel almost immediately. The Lord gave them a vision for using their years of experience in Teaching and Technology to be a part of reaching the people groups classified as unreached or least reached.

After being able to visit the NTM training centre in Jersey Shore, Pa (now WAYUMI), in 2001, they were convinced the Lord would direct them to join this team. Their journey began with training at the now Ethnos360 BI, in Jackson (2003-2005) and continued is missionary training (2005-2007) here in Durham. Their family fell in love with Canada. 🙂

Of course, by God’s divine direction, while preparing to follow the Lord to Indonesia, their steps were redirected and in August 2011 they and their family joined the Durham Team.

Roland has served as an instructor of Missionary Technology for Ethnos Canada and Jungle Camp Tech with Ethnos Canada’s Emanate program. He also provides instruction in Digital Security in Your Ministry – open to all mission personnel – (during emanate staff personal development day) every other year.

Our greatest joy in serving the Lord, with Ethnos Canada, is being a part of many tribal teams, in many countries around the world. By His grace!

Education:

• 30+ years of on the job training Support of IT Operations
• Business Presentations through corporate Education Program
• Advance Support Training for Remote Living (OffGrid Tech-NTM Tech Center)
• IT related certifications through Microsoft Corp; Cisco Systems, Inc; Ubuquiti, Inc; Global Knowledge, Inc; United Training

• Semantics and Translation
• Form and Meaning
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Dave Brunn spent over twenty years in Papua New Guinea (with his wife Nancy) where he served the Lamogai people through church planting, literacy training and Bible translation and consultation. Among his works is a complete translation of the New Testament into the Lamogai language.