Toronto Lineup
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Lineup Friday Night
KB
KB
Kevin Elijah Burgess (born July 21, 1988), better known by his stage name KB, is an American Christian hip hop artist and music executive from St. Petersburg, Florida. He is the leader of the hip-hop group HGA. He signed a solo artist contract to Reach Records in 2010. The label has released the Who Is KB? mixtape in 2011, Weight & Glory, on July 17, 2012, the 100 EP on March 4, 2014, Tomorrow We Live on April 21, 2015, and Today We Rebel on October 20, 2017. He is also a member of the label’s collective 116 Clique. He left Reach in 2020 and signed with Essential Sound, releasing his fourth studio album, His Glory Alone.
Hulvey
Hulvey
Hulvey, a twenty-three year old Brunswick, GA native, went from dropping out of college, scrubbing toilets at Publix, to becoming Reach Records latest breakout hip hop artist. His label debut EP, BRKNHRT dropped in 2020 and immediately garnered him national praise. Pandora named him “Christian Artist to Watch in 2020”, his tracks ‘Higher’ and ‘Real Love’ from Hulvey Vol. 1 and Hulvey Vol. 2 were featured on VH1’s Love and Hip Hop Atlanta in 2020 and ‘Cold Blooded’ was featured on ABC’s hit show ‘The Rookie’. Shortly after BRKNHRT released, the world shut down, entering into a global pandemic. Having to put the hopes of touring and performing on hold, Hulvey, like the rest of the world, found himself in his bedroom, secluded from his friends and family, where he was forced to face his insecurities and fears and surrender them to God. It was then, his forthcoming debut album, set to release in 2021, was born.
Andrew Beresford
Andrew Beresford
G. Andrew Beresford is passionate about loving people and leading them to Jesus, challenging them to grow deeply in their relationship with Him. Consequently, he believes that it is his life-calling to serve others, especially through helping them discover their God-given purpose and equipping them to live it out. Andrew Beresford pastors Serve City Church in Toronto.
OJ the DJ
OJ THE DJ
Has been a DJ for several years with most notable events with World of Dance, Warner Brothers, Kingdom Bound in New York, Otafest Calgary, Change Conference in Toronto, Youth Quake in Saskatchewan, Lecrae, KB, and over 100 high school and university events.
Born in America and living in Canada with a Nigerian heritage, Oje is typically fusing different cultures together in an aim to bring unity amongst people.
With a following of 500K, DJing in over 8 countries, opening and playing with acts such as Lecrae, For King and Country, KB and hundreds of high school and university events, OJ has music for everyone!
Lineup Saturday
KB
KB
Kevin Elijah Burgess (born July 21, 1988), better known by his stage name KB, is an American Christian hip hop artist and music executive from St. Petersburg, Florida. He is the leader of the hip-hop group HGA. He signed a solo artist contract to Reach Records in 2010. The label has released the Who Is KB? mixtape in 2011, Weight & Glory, on July 17, 2012, the 100 EP on March 4, 2014, Tomorrow We Live on April 21, 2015, and Today We Rebel on October 20, 2017. He is also a member of the label’s collective 116 Clique. He left Reach in 2020 and signed with Essential Sound, releasing his fourth studio album, His Glory Alone.
Sharon Witton
Sharon Witton
Sharon Joy Witton is the Co-Pastor of Toronto City Church – an intercultural, intergenerational church located in the city of Toronto, Canada. Her responsibilities include giving leadership to the creative arts and media, youth creative, women’s ministry and prayer and prophetic training. She speaks regularly to women and serves in a number of organizations and movements including Empowered 21’s Next-Generation Canadian Cabinet and The Canadian Leaders Prophetic Network. Sharon also sits on the Board of three charities that focused on the empowerment of women, young adults engaging culture and one that focuses on youth in schools.
Sharon’s passions include empowering the next generation and seeing believers grow in their gifts and talents. She and her husband Brendan have been married for 17 years and they have two children, Micah and Shiloh.
Micah
Mac
Micah Mac
Micah met Steph at North Central University in downtown Minneapolis. Micah shares about how he would walk into chapel and hear the voice of an angel singing as Steph would lead Chapel worship and travel on the Schools worship team across the country. It wasn’t long after graduating North Central that they would get married and both be on staff at Cedar Valley Church in Bloomington, MN. Micah was a youth pastor and Steph was a worship pastor. After several years working in the local church they sensed God asking them to take a step of faith and go on the road full time. For the last three years they have been ministering to thousands as God has opened every door of opportunity. They currently are “staff evangelists” and contracted worship leaders at Zoe Church in Burnsville, MN. For fun you can find them hanging with their kids at a water park, local gym, or local restaurant as they love GOOD FOOD! They are so honored that you would take the time to get to know a little bit more about them.
Brooke Nicholls
Brooke Nicholls
Brooke Nicholls is a Worship Leader and Songwriter from Toronto, ON, where she serves as a Worship Leader at Sanctus Church. When she’s not at her home Church, she’s leading worship at different Churches and Ministries across Canada and beyond. Brooke has been named the Female Vocalist of the Year for the last three years at the Canadian Gospel Music Awards and her album, ‘Pursue’, was nominated for a 2020 Juno Award. Brooke is married to her guitar player Steve.
Breakout Speakers
Felicia Jimenez
Felicia Jimenez
Felicia Jimenez is a daughter of God who is deeply in love with Jesus. For years Felicia was a mental health counselor for children and youth before being called into full time vocational ministry with Elevation Church. Felicia now serves as the Campus Support Director for Elevation Church’s Toronto Campus. Felicia’s mission in life is to encourage young people by pointing them to Jesus while helping them discover who God says they are.
Aaron Kerr
Aaron Kerr
Pastor Aaron along with his wife Dana, have been married since October 2012 and have been Lead Pastors and Church Planters for 6 years since February 2014. In 2021 they transitioned to Vivid Church where they are the lead communicators of the Toronto site. A campus location of the main site in Vancouver, BC. Their personal philosophy and driving passion is reflecting the light of Jesus life for all to see. Their mission is to place Christ in the centre to impact their community, city and world with the gospel presented in FUN, LOVE and TRUTH.
Pastor Aaron has ministered and spoken in many churches and events, both domestically and internationally. His dynamic teaching style and uncanny ability to make people understand the gospel message is the reason why he has been such an asset to ministries across cultural and denominational lines. He holds three earned academic degrees in the areas of leadership, counselling and ministry. Together they both enjoy traveling, movies and are big time foodies.
Steph Macdonald
Steph Macdonald
Micah met Steph at North Central University in downtown Minneapolis. Micah shares about how he would walk into chapel and hear the voice of an angel singing as Steph would lead Chapel worship and travel on the Schools worship team across the country. It wasn’t long after graduating North Central that they would get married and both be on staff at Cedar Valley Church in Bloomington, MN. Micah was a youth pastor and Steph was a worship pastor. After several years working in the local church they sensed God asking them to take a step of faith and go on the road full time. For the last three years they have been ministering to thousands as God has opened every door of opportunity. They currently are “staff evangelists” and contracted worship leaders at Zoe Church in Burnsville, MN. For fun you can find them hanging with their kids at a water park, local gym, or local restaurant as they love GOOD FOOD! They are so honored that you would take the time to get to know a little bit more about them.
Greg Williams
Greg Williams
Gregory has been teaching and discipling for 15 years with a B.A. in Theology. As Discipleship Pastor at New Life Church in Brantford, he has a passion for seeing others grow in their understanding and walk with Christ together in community.
Hollie Charlebois
Hollie Charlebois
Hollie lives in the Durham region with her husband, Brandon and her 2-year-old daughter, Glory. She is the Site Pastor for the Bowmanville Location of Sanctus Church. Pastoring was a bit of a surprise calling for her as she had originally studied psychology and psychotherapy to pursue being a therapist. However, her love for the local church couldn’t keep her away. She is passionate about seeing the restoration and healing a relationship with Jesus can bring to the lives of believers and the beauty of what God can do through the local church.
Meisha Watson
Meisha Watson
Meisha Watson is a host, director, writer, and producer from England. She moved to Canada with her family at 14 years old with the dream to make it in showbiz. Meisha has now worked in the entertainment industry for 12 years. She has hosted on YTVs The Zone and the ZoneWeekend, presented at the Canadian Screen Awards, and interviewed top chefs from across Canada. She is now serving in ministry at Crossroads Media as the Executive Producer and host of the brand- new podcast; My Single Story & and the hilarious, musically lead, biblical teaching variety show for kids ‘HEY MEISHA! airing Saturday mornings on YES TV and streaming on YouTube.
Farj Karimimir
Farj
Farj is passionate about the next generation coming to faith and following the way of Jesus. He’s been involved in youth ministry for nearly 10 years. Farj works at Alpha Youth Canada, envisioning and equipping the local church on why and how to run Alpha Youth.
Sid
Koop
Sid Koop
Sid is the Executive Director of the Youth Worker Community which has shaped ministry to adolescents in Canada through various research project partnerships (Renegotiating Faith and Hemorrhaging Faith), youth worker training conferences (equipping thousands of youth workers each year), and now consulting and coaching. He continues to speak regularly to teenagers and is passionate about helping the next generation see and experience the truth of Jesus Christ.
Hulvey
Hulvey
Hulvey, a twenty-three year old Brunswick, GA native, went from dropping out of college, scrubbing toilets at Publix, to becoming Reach Records latest breakout hip hop artist. His label debut EP, BRKNHRT dropped in 2020 and immediately garnered him national praise. Pandora named him “Christian Artist to Watch in 2020”, his tracks ‘Higher’ and ‘Real Love’ from Hulvey Vol. 1 and Hulvey Vol. 2 were featured on VH1’s Love and Hip Hop Atlanta in 2020 and ‘Cold Blooded’ was featured on ABC’s hit show ‘The Rookie’. Shortly after BRKNHRT released, the world shut down, entering into a global pandemic. Having to put the hopes of touring and performing on hold, Hulvey, like the rest of the world, found himself in his bedroom, secluded from his friends and family, where he was forced to face his insecurities and fears and surrender them to God. It was then, his forthcoming debut album, set to release in 2021, was born.