Rev. Rick Metcalfe has 25 years of ministry experience in the Maritimes, in Ontario and
in Québec. He has a pastor’s warm and peaceful heart, and he is a healing presence who
uses highly effective counseling skills with people in all walks of life. Rick has a
great sense of humour, a passion for pastoral visitation and loves to play the piano
and to sing, having been a member of several choirs over the years. In his early years
in the Baptist Church, he was called to street ministry in St John NB, worked with
group homes, in psychiatric institutions as a chaplain, worked extensively with
seniors, and more recently (in the last 10 years with the United Church) has ministered
to pastoral charges and worked as an intentional interim minister in Ontario. He has
studied the Alban management approach to church development for at least 8 years. He
has taught conflict management with youth and has been placed in conflicted churches
as a “trouble shooter” on two occasions with great success. He has chaired a planning
and development committee at presbytery. Richard is a team player who empowers others
to see their own gifts and passions, helping others to make sense out of their
spiritual journey. Richard feels primarily called to a ministry of pastoral care,
visitation, spiritual direction, group and bible study leadership and team development.
Rev. Suzanne Nadon was a writer, an adult educator, counselor and a management
consultant for 20 years before entering ordered ministry in 2002. She founded and ran
a retreat centre in Owen Sound Ontario, and published several books. She ran a day camp
for ‘street kids’, taught relationship skills to youth, and worked extensively with
women in self-empowerment circles and retreats since the early 80s. She expresses her
creativity in word, in art, in dreamwork and in drama. People of all ages enjoy her
worship style, she is known to be a dynamic, thought-provoking speaker. She is a team
player and has been on the executive of her presbytery, chair of a theological
reflection group that animates faith issues in her presbytery, and a member of the
Native Concerns Committee for the conference. Suzanne is bilingual, and was raised in
the Ottawa Valley and in Québec. For twenty years, she and her family lived close to
nature in farmland near Owen Sound, Ontario where she built her own house, raised
chickens, tapped the trees for maple syrup, and home schooled part time. Suzanne loves
all aspects of worship preparation, preaching the Word, group work, counseling, social
justice, retreats and study groups, music and even church administration!