Leadership and Staff

Peter Youngren; a native of Sweden. He has led Gospel Festivals in more than 90 nations for the past 30 years. Some of the ministry outreaches under Peter Youngren's oversight include: In 1976, Peter Youngren founded World Impact Ministries. Crowds of up to 600,000 have attended a single service during his Gospel Festivals conducted around the world. Mighty miracles have influenced entire regions. More than 11,000,000 have responded to the call for salvation. More than 240, 000 pastors and leaders have attended Peter’s leadership seminars. Pastor Peter carries a powerful revelation of God's grace and love enabling believers to enjoy the reality of Christ in us. Peter Youngren's ministry maintains offices the United States, Canada, Sweden, Finland, India, Thailand, Indonesia, England and Singapore.

For well over a decade, Shawn along with his wife, Krista have been instrumental in the Pastoral leadership of one of Canada’s influential Churches. Their purpose is to build the kingdom of God through the local church. In addition to his responsibilities as Senior Associate Pastor at TICC, Shawn is also the Dean of Celebration Bible College. Leading the Pastoral & support teams by discerning and implementing the vision that God has laid on Pastor Peter’s heart is the responsibility of Shawn. Shawn and Krista reside in the Toronto area along with their daughter, Destiny and son, Kristian. Shawn's favorite food is non other than deep fried clams (Why? Well...it's an east coast thing.)

David Imler currently serves as the Executive Pastor of the Toronto Celebration Church. While watching over the day to day operations of the church he also has the opportunity to over see our Connection Groups, and Student Ministries with some great teams of volunteers. Dave has been married to his wife Christine for 10 years, and they have 4 sons. His favorite pass times include wrestling, making up games to play with his sons, or reading a good book. If he could travel anywhere in the world right now, it would most likely be to Europe with a back pack, a weekly allowance, and of course his wife… or Nicaragua with some great friends who are doing missions work down there.

Ryan is a worship leader at heart, and has a passion to see people experience Jesus in a very real way. Raised in Sudbury Ontario, Ryan was born again in Sunday School at the age of nine. He attended World Impact Bible Institute and the Celebration Of Arts School, where he served on the worship team at Niagara Celebration Church. Ryan has been the Music Pastor at TICC since January 2004. He and his wife Pamela now live in Toronto. Ryan loves food, and it's hard to pin down his favorite, as he is always sharing recipes, but good home made french onion soup is in the top five for sure! (and he has a great recipe for that, too!)

Mavis hails from the Caribbean Island of Trinidad. She immigrated to the USA in 1969, and in 1971 moved to Canada. In 1997 she attended one of Pastor Peter Youngren’s services in Toronto and felt an immediate sense of belonging. Later when the Toronto International Celebration Church was established Mavis made it her home. She is very active in the church as a staff member and a volunteer and enjoys every minute of it.

Maria was born in Bulgaria and accepted Jesus at age 5. After high-school, Maria attended Graduate Business school and worked 19 years as an accountant. Her family lived during the Communist regime while the church in Bulgaria was persecuted, and finally her husband Petko escaped Bulgaria in 1990 and 16 month later Maria and their two daughters joined him here in Toronto. She took courses at Huntley Street and Healing School from Rhema Bible School. Maria volunteer at TICC for 3 years and is now working full time as assistant accountant. Maria Loves to travel. If she could go anywhere on earth, she would like to see the sunrise and sunset in Sorrento Italy and Fiji - just to record the beauty of what God has created.

Rosalind's friendly demeanor and her warm welcome to each visitor at our front desk sets a great tone in the office. If you have a question, or need to be directed to another staff member or department leader, please use ext.0 and Rosalind will assist you.

Tamas Nagy was born in Hungary and finished his 4 years of Theological Studies there. Jesus delivered him from the night-life and drugs during a powerful encounter with His presence. He was overvhelmed with God’s unconditional love and that totally changed his life. Presently he serves at Toronto Celebration Church and pastoring the Hungarian Celebration Church. Tamas and his wife Rita has twoo beautiful children Grace and Jordan.

Raised in Warsaw Ontario, Cam received Christ when a member of the Plymouth Brethren knocked on his door and shared the gospel with him, in 1943. Then, since being baptized in a river at the height of the WWII, Cam’s life has never been the same. Cam has been many things to many people: a husband and father to six children, a master electrician, the Mayor of the city of Peterborough; but Cam prefers now to be known as a simple follower of Jesus. Through all these years, Cam has learned that he can stop striving to try to be righteous or to please God with his actions. Jesus, His grace, His righteousness, His peace, His power, His love, His strength and every good thing already lives inside us– and has ever since we reached out and received him on the day we were first saved.

Mabel Wee was ordained a Minister in TICC on 18 Feb. 2009. As ESL Director, she pioneered TICC’s English as a Second Language Ministry in 2003. She co-trained all TICC and other ESL volunteer teachers. She is also an Executive Director of Southern Ontario’s Co-operative ESL Ministry (SOCEM). From conference planning to overseeing translation ministry to other special projects, Mabel in an asset to TICC leadership team. Mabel organized John Maxwell’s Maximum Impact Simulcast for two years, and leads a Leadership Connection Group. She also helps as an Administrative Assistant. Mabel now leads Ticc’s Prayer Team as evangelism and intercession are her gifts and passion. She’ll never forget praying for a lame girl and seeing her walk in Kenya at Pastor Peter’s Festival. Mabel has traveled the globe, but Israel in May 2010 is next.

Since Sept 2003 Paul Terry has served as assistant coordinator in the ESL Ministry at TICC. Paul is a graduate of Tyndale Bible College and has also graduated from Literacy and Evangelism International’s ESL Training Institute in Tulsa, OK. Paul’s aim is to equip Christian workers and churches with skills needed to initiate, organize and grow a fruitful ESL ministry in their community. Paul also assists in the TICC Prayer Team and also volunteers as a Sunday Service director. If he could go anywhere in the world, Paul would go ... well ... somewhere out of this world; the moon. In his words, "It would simply be AWESOME!"