Forge National Team

Cam Roxburgh

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Cam is the National Director for the Forge as well as the Team Leader of Southside Community Church in Vancouver, BC. He is currently the Director of Church Planting Canada and serves as an advisor to the Research Committee for EFC. He also serves as Canadian Baptist Ministries Missional Director.

Email: Cam Roxburgh

Anthony Brown

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Anthony is the Director of Education for Forge. Anthony has founded and headed up non-profit organizations which have helped to transition churches from maintenance to mission and train pastors to lead missional churches. Before moving to Canada ten years ago, Anthony worked as a pastor and an evangelist in his native England. He holds higher degrees in theology from Oxford University, England, and Regent College, Vancouver.

Email: Anthony Brown

Karen Wilk

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Karen is a National Team Member for Forge Canada and a Missional Leader Developer for the Christian Reformed Church in North America. She is a neighbour, wife, mom, and minister who leads her own neighbourhood community. She is pastor at the River Community Church in Edmonton, where she actively engages church leadership in moving their congregations out into neighborhoods. She has a MTS from Tyndale Seminary and is pursuing a DML at Northern Seminary. Karen has written a several books, including Don’t Invite Them To Church: A Devotional Guide to Pursuing God’s Mission Together in Your Neighbourhood.

Email: Karen Wilk

Scott Hagley

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Scott Hagley, Ph.D. Luther Seminary, is a teaching pastor at Southside Community Church and the Director of Education for Forge Canada. Before coming to Southside and Forge, Scott worked as a researcher and church consultant for Church Innovations Institute and taught courses in theology, mission, and leadership at Bethel University, Rochester College, and Augsburg College. Scott lives in proximity with Southside in a culturally-diverse neighbourhood of Vancouver, BC, with his wife and two daughters.

Email: Scott Hagley

Howard Lawrence

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Howard has served as a pastor in Edmonton for 25 years, as Missional Church Consultant for the Canadian Baptists of Western Canada, and as Canadian consultant for the Connecting Church. He is the Director of Neighbourhood Life, the part of Forge Canada which particularly attends to what God is up to in our neighbourhoods.

Email: Howard Lawrence