2026 SPEAKERS
Chris Lindberg
Christwalker Ministries &
Host of IT IS TIME Meetings
Chris is a farmer, evangelist, and also pastor of a local church, Christwalker Fellowship. Whether he is in North America, Africa, India, or anywhere else in the world, his heart burns to preach the Gospel and see lives changed by Jesus. He enjoys ministering abroad, but has a vision to see his own homeland on fire for Jesus. Chris is fully supported by his loving wife Chari and their 4 adult children. This is the 9th year that Chris and Chari are hosting the IT IS TIME gospel meetings on their farm.
Richie Seltzer
Revival Culture
Richie Seltzer is married to Chelsea and together they have four kids. He got born again at 18 and immediately started preaching the gospel. Through a series of encounters with God, Richie was called by God into full time ministry. He went to YWAM where he completed discipleship school, leadership school, and led schools while serving on the mission field. He then spent time at Bethel Church in Redding, California serving under evangelist Chris Overstreet now with Compassion to Action. After time in Redding, Richie and Chelsea moved to Calgary, Canada where they planted Imagine Church and launched burning ones school of fire. In 2017, Richie passed over the leadership of the church, and moved on to Mechanicsburg, PA to serve Global Awakening in fulfilling the Great commission and seeing a global awakening; worldwide Revival.
Marty Swanson
Gathering the Eagles
Marty Swanson is a powerful force in the kingdom of God preaching with power, fire, signs and wonders. He has served faithfully for decades in the ministry as worship leader, evangelist, missionary and prophetic voice. Marty is currently the leader of Gathering The Eagles with 12000 online members and brings sharp teaching with a double edged sword. His passion is to help the church to know and walk faithfully in the grace and truth of the faith of Christ, and bringing revival to Canada and other nations.
Marty and his wife Laura have two sons and are local to central Alberta.
Kingdom Advance Church
Stony Plain, AB
Jennifer Mitchell
Ben Loates
Spruce Grove Community Church
& West Country Worship
Ben and Jenna Loates live in The Glory Hills of Alberta with their four children, ages 17, 15, 13, and 11. They have been married, serving in business and ministry together for nearly two decades, building a successful real estate business while pursuing their greatest passion—seeing hearts awakened to Jesus.
As founders of West Country Worship, Ben and Jenna carry a burden to equip the next generation of worshippers. Their heart is to cultivate, steward, and release both the sound and the move of God throughout Canada. Believing that worship paves the way for transformation, they are passionate about seeing the sound of the North Wind rise across the nation and a generation encounter the presence and power of God.
Jennifer Mitchell was born and raised in Uganda, East Africa. Married to Cameron Mitchell for 17 years, Cameron serves as a captain firefighter for the city of Edmonton. Together, they have two children, Shekinah (14) and Josiah (12).
With a background in psychology, Jennifer spent five years as a sponsorship coordinator at Uganda Jesus Village orphanage, later becoming an overseer of the orphanage alongside Cameron for an additional two years. After moving to Canada in 2011, they established and led Freedom and Fire Ministries, where the focus was on missions, self-sustaining projects, education, and a feeding program in Uganda.
For eight years, Jennifer traveled extensively for speaking engagements in various settings, including schools, northern communities, conferences, women’s events, and churches. Actively served in her local church with youth, young adults, women’s ministry, prayer, and personal ministry.
For the past 7 years, Jennifer has and continue to served as the Lead Pastor at Kingdom Advance Church in Stony Plain, Alberta.