About our church.

  • Our Beliefs

    What we believe about the Bible, about God, and about salvation.

    OUR BELIEFS

  • Our Pastor

    Meet our Lead Pastor Anthony Does.

    OUR PASTOR

  • Our Staff

    Meet our staff members, and connect with them directly.

    OUR STAFF

Our Core Values

ABIDING IN CHRIST

Abiding in Christ means that we are spending time each day with Jesus, leaning on and drawing our strength from Him. In John 15, Jesus shares the imagery of “The Vine and The Branches”. Jesus is the vine and we are the branches. Without Him we can do nothing, but with Him we can have fruitful lives.

BELONGING IN COMMUNITY

We believe that just as each one of us is born into a family, we are also a part of the family of believers. This means we each find fellowship, encouragement and a place to serve.

CHURCH IN RENEWAL

Bethany is a church in Renewal, learning to walk intimately with God. We submit to God to renew our minds, so that we can know His plans and purposes, as individuals and as a church community.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME AT BETHANY

Bethany Church has something for everyone. Church isn’t for perfect people. It’s for hurting people, for hungry people, for ordinary people, for growing people. It doesn’t matter your background: your ethnicity, your religious or nonreligious upbringing, or what you’ve been through. You are welcome here.

Bethany Church is a member of the Evangelical Missionary Church of Canada. For more information about the EMCC visit: www.emcc.ca

Pastor Anthony Does

LEAD PASTOR

Pastor Anthony Does Anthony was born and raised in Woodstock, Ontario. His upbringing on a fruit and vegetable farm was filled with many adventures and many of these stories live on in his telling. After High School he spent the next years of his life at Circle Square Ranches in Ontario and New Brunswick. He then went to Bible School at the Institute of Ministry in Bradenton, Florida. After a few of years working in construction and driving truck, he began his journey into full-time ministry as Youth Pastor in 1985 in his hometown at Eastdale Christian Outreach Centre. In 1990 moving to Toronto he became the Youth & Young Adult Pastor at Evangel Temple.

Anthony met his wife Sonja on a flight to Bogota, Colombia (ask them about this story). A couple of years later in 2002 they were married and joined the staff of Toronto City Church as Associate Pastor that same year.

From 2007 to 2020 Anthony was the Lead Pastor at Bethel Church, in the cottage country of Lindsay, Ontario. Anthony, along with his wife Sonja, enjoyed building a life together with their daughter, Savannah, in these beautiful Kawartha Lakes while they launched the Bethel congregation into Church Renewal.

Presently, Anthony is the Lead Pastor at Bethany Church in the vibrant and growing Kitchener, Ontario. With a vision to lead people into a transforming relationship with Jesus Christ, the expectations at Bethany are alive with promise.

Anthony & Sonja have two adult sons, AJ and Alexander, both of which he is extremely proud of, have pursued their own dreams in life and career and now reside in the nation’s capital, Ottawa, Ontario. They are blessed with three grandsons, Donovan, Austin and Evander, who are the cutest little boys.

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