The Team
David and Linda Webber
Born in Kaslo, British Columbia, David was raised in Wasa Lake, both rural hamlets in the Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia. He spend most of his early life in a lumber camp and his initial post-secondary education was in forestry. In 1979, at the age of 29, he was baptized into Christ, diagnosed with cancer and felt a call to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament. By the grace of God he survived both the cancer and the required seminary education for ministry.
He and his wife Linda have ministered in rural parishes since 1983. During that time they began to develop the vision for reaching out in a non-traditional way to isolated people in rural and remote areas.
In 1989 they moved to Lac La Hache, British Columbia and began building the Cariboo Presbyterian Church as a congregation of house churches.
David and Linda have two grown sons, Davin and Halden, a 23 year old daughter Chelsea, and four wonderful grandchildren; Jacob, David, Kira and Brayden. They love to spend their spare time hunting, fishing and relaxing far from civilization.
Jon Wyminga & Shannon Bell-Wyminga
Jon first pursued a diploma in graphic design and during that time in college committed his life to Christ at a youth retreat. At the same weekend he sensed a call to missions. He went on to work in short-term missions in Holland and Toronto before going to Ontario Bible College, York University and eventually seminary. Shannon studied for a diploma from Ewart College in Christian Education and a degree in Religious Studies before she and Jon went to Knox College for ministry training.
Jon and Shannon dated while in university and were married in 1986. They each finished their degrees and entered Knox College together and were ordained together in 1991. Their ministry experience to that point had been focused on inner-city missions and they went on to share a position in Montreal in an inner-city ministry of the church. The call to the Cariboo and rural ministry was quite unexpected, but God always knows what is best for them. They have been truly blessed to labour in God's vineyard in the Cariboo.
They have settled in the remote, predominantly Carrier community of Ndazkoh where they are reaching out to their own village as well as other local villages and bands. Jon and Shannon have 2 daughters: Shelby is married to Tyler and is an acting student at Trinity Western University. Joelle is 16 and graduating high school to study theatre also at Trinity Western University starting in 2014. Their vision is to see Ndazkoh and the surrounding bands transformed by the love of Christ.
Bruce and Jackie Wilcox
Under the mentoring and encouragement of Dave Webber and other teaching elders, Bruce responded to a call to eldership in the Church in 1999, and has since been designated a “lay missionary with training” by the presbytery of Kamloops.
His wife Jackie is a care-aide who works in home support, and they have been blessed with the house church model of worship in the CPC, and opportunities from the Lord to reach out in ministry to others with that; whether in a designated building, people’s homes, or places like Seniors’ Care facilities.
Bruce and Jackie live in Lac La Hache, and have four “kids” - all grown up now. They love reading, music (Bruce loves jam sessions and trying to learn more on his guitar), and a good hockey game.