This Sunday (April 24th), Guy Heywood and Chris Best will be in the pulpit to share their message called “Actually . . . We Can Handle the Truth”.

Guy has lived on the North Shore Vancouver for over 50 years. He raised two sons in Lynn Valley a few doors down from the house he grew up in. Guy was elected as a Trustee on the North Vancouver School Board three times, as a Councillor in the City of North Vancouver twice. He ran unsuccessfully for Mayor in the City in the last election. He has been a board member and volunteer for the Recreation Commission, Arts Council, Neighbourhood House. His day jobs have been in banking and finance, although his very first job was as a coal salesman.

Guy went to Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario for the last half of his undergraduate degree, which is where he first met Christene. Twenty plus years later Guy persuaded Chris to move to the North Shore as well.

Chris was born and raised in Ottawa, although spent years in Quebec City and London, England. Her father was a founder of the union that represents all federal civil service employees who moved to management as a deputy minister and then to the foreign service as High Commissioner for Trinidad and Tobago. Chris attended Queen’s for her undergraduate degree and an MBA. Chris was hired by the Xerox Corporation and worked in progressively senior roles until 2000 when decided to stay in Vancouver, where she has been a sales and marketing executive for several tech companies.

Chris’s ancestors settled in Nova Scotia in the 1790s. Her paternal grandmother, an Order of Canada recipient, was the publisher of the first black newspaper. Her maternal grandfather, another Order of Canada recipient, fought in World War 1 as part of an all-black infantry unit.

Chris and Guy are getting married in less than a month.

We are looking forward to having them in the pulpit this Sunday!