Meet Our Pastor

Pastor & Mrs. Sullivant 

Pastor Michael Sullivant, D.D. is the founding pastor of the Pembina Valley Baptist Church. He is both the senior pastor as well as president of Canadian Baptist Bible College. He, along with his wife Brenda, have faithfully been serving the Lord at Pembina Valley Baptist Church since its inception on December 11, 1988.

Pastor Sullivant was saved at the age of 15 during a revival service in Kansas City, Missouri. He heard a message on Hell and knew that he was in need of salvation. At the age of sixteen, his youth group from Kansas City took a trip to a camp at Lake of the Woods, Ontario and it was during that week he surrendered to God's will for his life. 

He knew that God called him to preach and that one day he would be serving the Lord in the great land of Canada.  

After completing Bible college, he and his wife Brenda, along with five of their eight children (three later born in Canada), came to Manitoba in September of 1988. On December 11 of that same year, the first service for the Pembina Valley Baptist Church was held.

Pastor Sullivant has assisted in the starting of 11 churches, but the need to train young men became a great concern to him in 1995, when he and the members of Pembina Valley Baptist Church determined to start Canadian Baptist Bible College. God has greatly blessed.

Assistant Pastor
Gary W. Driedger

Gary trusted Christ as his Saviour at the age of twelve at a summer Bible Camp in 1974. He and his wife Lisa were married on February 14, 1989. They began attending the Pembina Valley Baptist Church a year after its inception, and started working with the youth shortly after and various other ministries of Pembina Valley Baptist Church.

Late in 1995, God called Gary to full-time service and he applied to Canadian Baptist Bible College for the first semester of classes scheduled to begin in the fall of 1996. On May 7, 2000, he graduated with a Graduate of Theology Diploma from Canadian Baptist Bible College. He has served as Assistant Pastor of the Pembina Valley Baptist Church since May 23, 1999.

Church Secretary
Sandi Rempel

Custodian / Cook
Sara Hiebert

Meet Our College Staff

Assistant Pastor
Bryan Helm

Brother Helm was saved at the age of 25 through the door-to-door soulwinning program of Central Baptist Church in Garland, Texas. He met his wife, Camille, while attending Central Baptist Church and they were married in 1981. They have five children. Four are married and one is still at home.  At the age of 26 he surrendered to the full-time ministry after attending a youth conference in 1979.

He earned an Associate Degree in 1975 and was attending the University of Texas at Dallas working on a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business and Public Administration when he transferred to Bible college and earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Pastoral Theology and a Master of Education Degree.

Brother Helm has worked as an associate pastor in two churches prior to coming to Canada. He spent five years in Maine and fifteen years in Texas. He was ordained into the ministry while in Maine and has worked nearly every position found in the local church ministry: youth, educably slow, music, business, education, janitorial, property maintenance, bus ministry and preaching.

Brother Helm came to Manitoba in December of 2005 and loves the work God is doing at Pembina Valley Baptist Church. For him, it has been a privilege and honor to have a part in this ministry and to be able to work with people who love the Lord and win the lost. He currently teaches an Adult Couples Class, teaches in Canadian Baptist Bible College, preaches, works with college students and is Vice President of Canadian Baptist Bible College.  Brother Helm is ready and willing to do whatever needs to be done at Pembina Valley Baptist Church and Canadian Baptist Bible College. 

College Secretary
Connie Rempel

Connie was saved at the age of ten, after reading the plan of salvation in a New Testament that was given to her. She began attending Pembina Valley Baptist Church in February, 2002. In the fall of that year, she enrolled in Canadian Baptist Bible College. She graduated in 2005 with a Graduate of Biblical Studies Diploma. Shortly after graduation she began working as the secretary of Canadian Baptist Bible College.  She is involved in various church ministries such as teaching a Master Club class and a ladies Sunday school class.

Meet Our Missions Staff

 
Director of
CanAmera Baptist Missions International
Brian Booth

Brother Brian Booth first heard the Gospel in Sunday school at age six in England, and was probably saved at that time. At age 24 in February of 1968, he heard a clear presentation of the Gospel and has been sure of his salvation since that time. He is married to Helen, which is a second marriage for both, their previous spouses having gone home to Heaven in 1999 and 2002 respectively. The combined family has seven children and twelve grandchildren.

Brian was one of the founding members of Friendship Baptist Church at Pickle Lake, Ontario in 1978, and has been a solid fundamental Baptist since that time. From 1986 to 1994, he and his family served in many areas at Bible Baptist Church, Niagara Falls, Ontario. In 1994 he was invited to Bethel Baptist Church at Simcoe, Ontario as assistant pastor in charge of visitation. The then Mrs. Booth was principal of the Christian school. Brother Booth continued at Simcoe through 2000 which remained his sending church while a missionary in England, until September 2007. While at Simcoe he finished a Bachelor of Theology Degree and a Master’s Degree in Religious Education from Baptist Bible College Canada and Theological Seminary. He surrendered to full-time ministry while reading Isaiah chapter six during morning devotions in 1982.

Brother Booth has had experience in many areas of life. This includes business, local politics and for 18 years as a presiding Justice of the Peace on the bench of the Ontario Court of Justice.

During his six years in England, Brother Booth helped start four churches and did the work of an evangelist in many parts of the country.

At the invitation of Dr. Michael Sullivant, Brian and Helen returned to Canada in September 2007 to serve at Pembina Valley Baptist Church. They have assisted in the setting up of CanAmera Baptist Missions International, a local church-based missions agency. The Booths have found this a challenging but enjoyable undertaking. They look forward to helping missionaries and local churches in the missionary enterprise.

Missions Secretary
Anna Friesen

Anna trusted Jesus Christ as her personal Savior as a young girl. She was married in 1992 to her husband Jake, and they have three children. They started attending the Pembina Valley Baptist Church in October of 2000. About a year later, they were approached about helping out in the youth ministry, where Anna and Jake continue to minister today.

Anna is involved in various other ministries including the music ministry and serving as secretary at CanAmera.