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Dr. David Guretzki

IC Vice-Chair

President & CEO / Resident Theologian, The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada​

David joined WEA’s International Council in 2019. He is President and CEO of The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) since 2023. He formerly served as Executive Vice President and Resident Theologian of the EFC since 2017. Prior to that, he served as a national board member for The EFC from 2008 to 2017.

Before coming to The EFC, David spent 24 years in theological education where he was Professor of Theology, Church and Public Life at Briercrest College and Seminary in Saskatchewan, Canada. He earned Bachelor of Religious Education and Master of Arts in Historical Theology from Briercrest and completed a PhD in Western Christian Thought from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He serves as an Adjunct Professor of Theology both at Briercrest Seminary (Caronport, Canada) and Tyndale Seminary (Toronto, Canada).

David is executive publisher of The EFC’s bi-monthly print and digital publication, Faith Today, in which he also writes a regular column called Cross Connections. He has published three books and many articles and reviews in theology. His area of interests and expertise include the theology of forgiveness and reconciliation, political theology, ecclesiology, pneumatology (particularly on the filioque), Roman Catholic-Evangelical dialogue, and the theology of Karl Barth.