Rev. Jean-Daniel Ó Donncada
Rev. Jean-Daniel Ó Donncada is the National Pastor for Canada for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada . Pastor Jean-Daniel studied at Harvard, Yale, and Université de Montréal. His academic work has focused on how religious communities can best support children, leading to his writings being published in an anthology of essays, Child Honouring, edited by Raffi with a foreword by the Dalai Lama.
He is often a workshop leader and featured speaker on children’s and youth ministry and pastoral care of neurodiverse children across North America. Most recently, he has been an ecumenical chaplain at McGill University and an interfaith hospital chaplain. He has served churches from California to Connecticut to Québec for the last 20 years. Jean-Daniel is particularly passionate about children’s and youth ministry, ecumenical cooperation, and multilingual ministry.
Rev Dr Jennifer Boyes-Garbin
Rev Dr Jennifer Boyes-Garbin is the current Principal of Canterbury College. She holds degrees from the University of Toronto, Emmanuel College, and the Toronto School of Theology and harbours a deep passion around spirituality, education, and what it means to be human.
Jen has led numerous workshops and presentations on emerging adult spirituality, congregational transformation, and innovative ministry and is a contributing author of three books of spiritual reflections. She believes that relationship building with oneself (self-care), others, and with the Divine is the "slow work" we are called to as we minister to and with the people around us, and a task in which we can always learn more.
While Windsor is Jen's current home, she was raised near Algonquin Park and has lived and served in urban and rural areas across Ontario and Nova Scotia.