CANADA

After serving with Christian Reformed World Missions in the Philippines for nearly a decade, Ontario native Rev. Bruce Adema has been appointed as the Christian Reformed Church Director of Canadian Ministries (DCM). He currently works as missionary professor and interim director at Koinonia Theological Seminary in Davao City, Philippines, but will be returning to Canada to start his new position in summer 2006. Adema has previously pastored several CRC congregations in Canada. His responsibilities will include overseeing CRC’s Canadian ministries, such as the Urban Aboriginal Ministries and the Committee for Contact with the Government. He will also help congregations with questions of church polity and ecclesiastical matters. (Christian Reformed Church)