OSL  

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OSL Canada

The International Order of St Luke the Physician

  

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Director

Vacant

    
       

President

Rev. Ron VanAuken

    

Ron is the Regional Director for OSL Region 8, and President of OSL, Canada. He is an ordained minister in The Reformed Church in America and The Presbyterian Church in Canada and has served in congregations in New York, Alberta and in Ontario.

Ron is currently serving a transitional parish 2/3 time while concurrently working in the areas of counseling, mediation, and spiritual direction.

    
       

Vice President

Colin Campbell PhD

    

Colin Campbell was elected Vice President of OSL Canada in August 2011, at the First OSL Canadian National Healing Conference in Winnipeg, MB.  He is a long time member of OSL, former President of The International Order of St Luke the Physician Board of Directors, and a current member of OSL Region 8 Council    
.Dr Campbell is Convenor of the newly established OSL Hamilton Chapter and the founding Convenor of the first OSL Young Adults Chapter in the history of the Order of St Luke.   Colin is a secondary school teacher and resides in Hamilton, Ontario    
       

Secretary

Lynne Sampson

    

Lynne is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan.   Even though her training was in Education, she found herself employed for 18 years as hospital chaplain for the United Church of Canada, working in 3 Saskatoon hospitals.  She was first a member of the OLS in Saskatoon about 30 year ago and recently became involved again.   Lynne lives in Saskatoon, SK, is married, has 2 sons, and 3 grandchildren.

    
       

Treasurer

Bev Otsuka

    
 

I have been on this spiritual journey, by way of the Anglican Church, for most of my life.  My faith has built from a child, through a slow, deliberate and determined way.   I have spent the past 43 years in the same parish in Saskatoon. Through those years, I have worked on almost every committee of the church,  I have been Diocesan and Provincial Synod delegates and a member of Vestry most of those years.    For the past 30 years, I have acted as a Lay Reader and Lay Eucharistic Minister within the parish.

    

Ten or so years ago I was invited to participate with a member of the OSL, who was also a member of our congregation, in promoting a course on Healing Ministry within our parish.   His hope was to develop a caring Prayer Team that would be available at the call of the Rector and for any in need for our prayers.  Unfortunately he moved out of the country a short time later and his leadership was greatly missed.   Our newly formed Prayer Team kept together, sometimes by strings, but always by faith.   Through Alan’s involvement with the OSL as a past Convenor, I entered into the Order and received my membership and kept on the road of studying and being an active part of God’s plan for Healing. 

    
 

Through my association with the OSL Chapter in Saskatoon and The Ven. Larry Mitchell, I have become involved in the larger group as the treasurer of OSL Canada.  As a student of our Lord, I find that every day is a new day of learning, appreciating loving and healing.  I look forward to the future – to where we will be led and to what we will be doing – through Christ our Lord.

    
       

Alberta

Rev. Lesley Hand

    

Lesley joined OSL while in seminary and was involved in the healing ministry in her local church for several years before that.  She and her husband, Charlie, have trained many lay healing ministry teams, written and led Bible studies on prayer and healing, and have given presentations on the foundations of a parish healing ministry.

   
Lesley and Charlie emigrated to Canada as newlyweds in 1978. They made their home in Fort McMurray, Alberta, where they raised their two daughters.  Charlie worked in the oil sands industry and Lesley worked with health-related non-profit organizations before answering a call to ministry. After ordination, Lesley served as a missionary pastor with On Eagle’s Wings Ecumenical Ministries, providing training, pastoral and resource support to churches and individuals in remote northern communities.  Lesley is currently the Rector of St Helen’s Anglican Church in Fairview, Alberta.    
       

British Columbia 

Rev Doug Lewis   

    

The Rev. Douglas Lewis is a retired Water Treatment Engineer and was ordained as a locally identified priest in the Diocese of Kootenay in 2004. He received his theological education at Emanuel and Saint Chad and Vancouver School of Theology. He serves the Anglican Congregations at Fruitvale, and Salmon BC.

    

He and his wife The Rev. Elizabeth Lewis (Deacon) have two children and two Grand children, while both of their children were born in the Trail B. C. they both reside in the UK with their respective families.Douglas and Elizabeth joined the Order of Saint Luke the Physician shortly after ordination in 2005. Unfortunately the chapter they joined closed and they have been orphaned ever since but they are now in the process of creating a new chapter, with the help of other local people

    
The Rev. Douglas Lewis was elected as a director of the Order in Canada at the First Canadian Conference held in Winnipeg in August 2011.    
       

Manitoba

Rev. Clare Edwards

    

Clare is a wife, mother, and grandmother and has been in the healing ministry for 27 years and a member of the Order of St. Luke for over 25 years.  Over the years she has been Convener, and then Chaplain for her local Chapter and Regional Director for Region 10 since 2007.     
She has been the Honorary Assistant in Flin Flon, Manitoba since her ordination as Deacon in the Anglican Church of Canada in 1999.  In 2003 - 2009 Clare was appointed a half-time position in charge of the parish of Snow Lake.  Since May 2009 she has been employed as the Spiritual Care Coordinator for Flin Flon and Snow Lake in the NorMan Regional Health Authority.      
       

New Brunswick

Rita M O'Rourke

    

Born in Stanley, N.B.  Rita is married with three children, and grandmother to nine.  She got her B.A. at Concordia University, and is now retired as a teacher for many years.      
A member of OSL since 1975, Rita was Co-Convener, West Island Chapter, in Montreal, and founder of the Passamaquoddy Chapter, St. Andrews, N.B.      

She is Past President of Women Aglow, Montreal, PQ, is passionate about basketball and the Montreal Canadians.  Rita enjoys a healthy active lifestyle in St. Andrews, N.B.

    
       

Newfoundland & Labrador

Vacant

    
       

Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island

Berit Anderson   

   

 

 Born in Hubbards, Nova Scotia, and currently living in Chester Basin, I am one of seven children, blessed with a Norwegian background.  I lived in Holland, moved to PEI for a time, and then to New Brunswick before returning to Nova Scotia 25 years later.   While attending the consecration of a new Anglican Church in NB, a Healing Service was held.  A healing service?!   That was the beginning.      

I became a founding member of the OSL chapter in Oromocto, NB, around 1986.  It was through the study and witness of those involved that Jesus became ‘real’, and through the prayers, friendship and support of two OSL Members, I knew I would be ‘ok’, as I journeyed through the pain of divorce, and all it was and is at that time.   I moved to NS to be with my high school chum, Ross Demont., my love and husband.   We laugh, cry, pray and even ‘sqawk’  (sometimes) together J, and are involved in all that comprises ‘church-land’. 

    
 

A lone member of OSL for 10 years, I initiated the formation of the South Shore Chapter of the OSL, and am the Convenor.  Our chapter home is in the basement of a bingo hall!  I have attended several OSL international conferences in Texas and Canada over the past 15 years.   We are a ‘growing’ chapter with 20 or so members, many of whom regularly travel for an hour or more to attend our healing services.

    
 

I am also very involved in the Anglican Cursillo Movement, having just served on Secretariat for more than 4 years.  I have two wonderful daughters from my first marriage, and we have 3 grandchildren.  I am part of the ‘sandwich generation’, my parents being 90 years young.    I am ‘working on retirement’ (am a financial Advisor).  I also enjoy walking and swimming, and time on PEI at our “HumbleHaven” (a gift from God).

    
       

Ontario

Colin Campbell PhD

    

Colin Campbell was elected Vice President of OSL Canada in August 2011, at the First OSL Canadian National Healing Conference in Winnipeg, MB.  He is a long time member of OSL, former President of The International Order of St Luke the Physician Board of Directors, and a current member of OSL Region 8 Council    
.Dr Campbell is Convenor of the newly established OSL Hamilton Chapter and the founding Convenor of the first OSL Young Adults Chapter in the history of the Order of St Luke.   Colin is a secondary school teacher and resides in Hamilton, Ontario    
       

Quebec

Penelope (Penny) Olive

    

A member of the OSL since 1990, Penny Olive is Convener for the Montreal Chapter. Penny lives in Dollard-des-Ormeaux (DDO) Quebec where she worships with her husband, Jack, at Jesus Light of the World Parish.

   

In 2002, Penny felt called by the Lord to translate OSL's Bible Study Project, “The Healing Ministry of Jesus” into the French language.  The first bilingual healing ministry in the Diocese was put in place at Saint Luke Parish in DDO.  Members were trained for this ministry using the new French workbook, “Le ministère de guérison de Jésus.”  Thanks be to God!

    
       

Saskatchewan

The Ven. Larry Mitchell

    

The Ven. Larry Mitchell is known and respected internationally for his leadership in the Order of St Luke.  Elected as North American Director to The International Order of St Luke the Physician, he became the first Canadian to hold the post.  Larry’s resigned in 2011 so he would be free to help establish and grow OSL Canada. 

A cradle Anglican, Larry recently celebrated his 45th year of ordination. He has a long history of promoting healing in churches, conduct healing services and is much in demand as speaker at healing events. Larry believes that the healing ministry is the ministry of the Body of Christ and therefore is a function of the whole people of God. Because of that belief he encourages lay people to be involved with the clergy in all aspects of liturgical worship and the ministry of healing