HEADS

Pastor Gabriel Addo-Asante attended children’s Sunday school (COP) at a very young age through an auntie who was a staunch member of her local church. He received both Holy Ghost and water baptism in 1990. Pastor Addo became an assistant children’s Sunday school teacher after graduating from Sunday school. He later became an assistant Witness Movement leader at his local church in Ghana at a very young age. He was a regular preacher at most of the local witness movement crusades. Pastor Addo migrated to Canada in October 2000 and has since continued in the zeal and passion for the ministry of evangelism and church planting. He became the assistant local evangelism leader at the newly established Brampton assembly in the early 2000s. After relocating to Calgary in 2009, he was appointed the Calgary district evangelism leader from 2010 to 2013. He doubled as the Western Canada Area evangelism leader during that period until he was sent to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan as a Field Assistant. Pastor Addo was ordained an Elder in Calgary by the late Apostle Dr. Emmanuel Owusu Bediako in 2013. In January 2014, He and his family were sent to Saskatchewan where they planted the church in Saskatoon and assisted with the planting of the church in Regina. In 2015 he was appointed the National Evangelism Leader for the Church of Pentecost, Canada. Pastor Addo is a visionary leader and a church planter who has a passion for soul-winning and church planting. This was noticed during his time in Saskatchewan and was called into the full-time ministry in 2017. Pastor Addo and the family were transferred to Winnipeg, Manitoba as a Bi-Vocational minister in August 2017. During his time in Winnipeg, he worked so hard, and the lord blessed the church through his hard work and catapulted the church Winnipeg to a high level. Among such is the planting of the Brandon church which has since become a bi-vocational district. The churches planted in Saskatoon, and Regina have equally become districts with resident ministers. Pastor Addo was appointed the first Internal Missions Coordinator in October 2021. Since this appointment, the Lord has used Pastor Addo with the guidance and leadership of Aps. Ransford Obeng Gyamfi, the national head, many new grounds for church planting have been broken. Notable among them are Sudbury in Ontario and St. John’s in Newfoundland. Pastor Addo holds a Bachelor of Nursing Degree and had the privilege to work in all the major hospitals in Calgary, Alberta (Peter Lougheed, Foothills, Rockyview, and South Health Campus). Pastor Addo is married to Mrs. Eva Addo-Asante, and they are blessed with four children: Joel, Jaira, Josiah, and Jael.

Pastor Joseph Tieku currently shepherds North York District, McKeown Worship Center. He has been a member of the Church of Pentecost since 1984. He was ordained as a Deacon in 1992 and an Elder in 1995 at Suame Assembly in the then New Tafo District, Kumasi, Ghana. After his appointment as an Elder, Pastor Tieku held additional positions in the Church of Pentecost: Local Financial Secretary, Building Committee Member, District Financial Secretary, Bible Studies Leader, Area Deacon, Area Secretary and National Deacon.  He was called and ordained as a Probationary Overseer in 2012, Overseer in 2014, and a Pastor in 2015. Pastor Tieku attended (University of Professional Studies, Accra UPSA) University of Cape Coast, Ghana, and continued his education at London South Bank University in England where he obtained a Bachelor’s degree, Majoring in Accounting and Finance. He pursued the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) program at Financial Training Company and qualified as a Chartered Accountant 2004.  In November 2005, Pastor Tieku immigrated to join his family in Toronto, Canada and immediately enrolled in the Certified General Accountants (CGA) program, qualified and became a member in 2008. In 2009, Pastor became a Fellow in the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA-United Kingdom, and also became Certified Professional Accountant (CPA) Ontario in 2014. Pastor Tieku completed his Masters in Theological Studies at Tyndale University, Toronto, Ontario in May 2020.  Pastor Joseph Tieku is married to Jemima Tieku, who is a Registered Nurse and Nursing Educator. Mrs. Jemima Tieku holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing (BScN) from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, and a Master’s in Education in Adult Education (Med) from Yorkville University, New Brunswick. They have been blessed with three children – Priscilla Afua Benewa Tieku, Perez Kofi Tieku and Joseph Kwame Asiedu Tieku Jr.

British Columbia Area Head

Pastor Joseph Christian Fynn-Sackey is currently the District Pastor of Vancouver District. He was the National Secretary of Church of Pentecost Canada. He also pastored PIWC North York and Downtown Toronto assemblies. He was born to late Pastor J W Sackey and Mrs Nancy Sackey in 1960. He was educated at Sekondi Secondary School, Saint Augustine’s College, University of Science and Technology and Algonquin College. Pastor Fynn-Sackey worked as Estates Officer and Property Manager with Volta River Authority and Canadian High Commission respectively in Ghana from 1989 to1998. From 1998 to 2002, he worked as Leasing Officer and Valuation Assistant with Boardwalk Equities and Municipal Property Assessment Corporation in Canada. He was called into full time ministry in COP in September 2002 and has served in the following districts: Montreal (2002 to 2006), Hamilton (2006 to 2008), Mckeown (2008 to 2012), and PIWC district North York (2012 to present). He has held the following roles in the church: National Youth Leader   (2000 to 2002), National Witness Leader (2002 to 2006), National Secretary (2010 to present). Pastor Fynn-Sackey is a teacher, counselor, prayer warrior, and a Bible expositor with evangelistic zeal. Pastor Fynn-Sackey has been married to Mercy Tachie-Menson, a registered nurse, since November 1991. Their marriage is blessed with four children- Esther, Nancy, David and Daniel.

Apostle Daniel Nii Lomotey Engmann is the Area Head for the North York Area of the Church of Pentecost Canada Inc  He holds Bachelor of Arts in Religion from McGill University (in 1995) along a diploma in Accountancy from his early years of education in Ghana. He accepted Christ as his Lord and Saviour in 1977 upon hearing the word of God, was subsequently baptised both by immersion and of the Holy Spirit and had since not turned back. He believes in propagating the gospel, teaching converts, the word of God and just as importantly, he believes that believers must “Live” the word.  Apostle Engmann has served in various committees including the National Executive Committee, National Missions Board, National Marriage Committee, The Board of Trustees, National Children’s Ministry Patron, Zonal Leader, and an Area Coordinator for the erstwhile Western Canada Area. He is married to Mrs. Debbie (maiden name) Engmann, who holds Diploma in Early Childhood Education from Guildford College of Technology in U.K with equal passion and zeal for the gospel. She has been working humbly behind the scenes throughout her husband’s ministry given herself to prayer, nurture children, youth, and women in the church. Apostle and Mrs. Debbie Engmann have been blessed with three children: Nii-Nortey, Nii-Okwei, and Nii-Noi Engmann and a granddaughter.