• Jeremy Kinniburgh

    Rev. Jeremy R. Kinniburgh is an ordained and credentialed pastor in the Alliance Church of Canada since 2003. He lives in Vernon, BC, in Canada. He attended Canadian Bible College in Regina and has worked in Quesnel (a church of around 300), and recently concluded his time at Vernon Alliance Church (a church of 1000+ at the time) where he worked for the last 15 years in the areas of Prayer Ministry, Discipleship, Small Groups, Young Adults and Student Ministries. In his time at VAC he also served on the leadership team planning weekend services, calendaring, and leading teams. Over the last two decades he has spoken at churches, events and conferences, served international workers, and done pastoral care, inner healing and ministry care for many people in various ministry environments. His heart is for renewal and for churches and people to step into renewal, and to see the kingdom come through the church to the communities they find themselves in. Jeremy is also a certified coach practitioner through CCF.

    He is married to Carmen, and they have a family that is learning to live in the culture of the Kingdom and in relationship with King Jesus. Jeremy enjoys the outdoors, sports, travelling, time with his family and camping. He is passionate about helping people to encounter Jesus, experience true freedom and wholeness, and come into the fullness of life that God created them for!

  • Carmen Kinniburgh

    Rev. Carmen Kinniburgh is an ordained and credentialed pastor in the Alliance Church of Canada. She lives in Vernon, BC with her husband Jeremy and their children.

    Carmen ministered as a children’s pastor for ten years at Vernon Alliance Church, and served in ministry roles with children’s, youth and music/drama ministry in Quesnel, BC and Hinton, AB after completing her bachelor’s degree from Canadian Bible College in 2003.

    Carmen understands the challenges and joys of recruiting, training and leading large teams of volunteers, ministering to children and families, and enjoys teaching, preaching, camp and special event speaking to children, youth, women and congregations. Her desire in ministry and life is to help others hear God’s voice and to experience the freedom and fullness of love found in knowing Jesus and living kingdom lives.

    Carmen enjoys spending her time reading, writing, walking and exploring the trails in the North Okanagan with family and friends and is working on a Masters of Theological Studies through McMaster Divinity College. She loves theatre, playing soccer, traveling and camping.

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OUR STORY

The idea for Threshold Initiatives was planted in our hearts 15 years ago at a pastor’s retreat when God spoke to us about being a safe place for ministering couples and individuals to receive care, encouragement and prayer. Over time, we were challenged by the question of who ministers to those who are ministering? And what are the options for leaders who feel stuck? Counselling, moving, church discipline, new career, fresh start…? Our heart has always been to raise up and equip followers of Jesus to walk in freedom for themselves and then to help others live in the same way. What may be challenging for leaders though, is to seek help without judgement, or find the kind of help that can equip them and release them into greater freedom.

Within our own journey of traversing ministry and our own spirituality we were given a prophetic word from a trusted leader in our lives about being in a distinct season which he described as a threshold. He said that in this liminal space God was working in us to increase our character and capacity to make us ready to be the kind of people that we would need to be in the season to come. But we had a choice for how long we would be there. We were not yet where we were going, neither were we where we had been. In the threshold there is an opportunity for increased intimacy and growth, but for many it is a place of increased tension and immobility.

Paul writes in 2 Timothy 1:7 that God does not give us a spirit of fear, but of wisdom, power and self discipline. While many Christians believe this to be true, they do not feel that they have the ability or the tools to access the Spirit’s wisdom and power, or the freedom to be effective in self-discipline. As we have grown in our own use and understanding of God’s heavenly resources and equipping we have helped many others to put these initiatives into practice in their own lives, through which they have experienced freedom through Christ, in spiritual renewal, identity, and increased intimacy with God and others.

We not only want to help individuals grow in their discipleship to Jesus, but we also have a calling to equip the church to be all that she can be in this new season of ministry. As the church around the world adapts to be both a gathering place for believers and a light in its communities for the gospel, there are many changes taking place about how that will look in the days and years to come. Contributing Pastor is a new style of ministry equipping through which the church can contract a specialized pastor to contribute for a season in the areas of their church in which the local body needs support, training, mentorship, and expertise. But not necessarily with the burden of someone in a full-time capacity. Contributing Pastor is a customizable contract with a specialized pastor of your choosing who can assess, equip, mentor and support your current staff team, or volunteer team to bring a lasting infusion to your local church body in a way that a conference, guest speaker, or popular curriculum cannot. Check out how Contributing Pastor can partner with your local church.