Who We Are

Marty Shoub

Marty Shoub is the Canadian Director of Tikkun Ministries Canada. Marty serves the elders and congregations within the Tikkun Ministries Canada network as an overseer and advisor. In addition, Marty is the co-leader of Kehilat Tsion, Vancouver’s first Messianic Jewish Synagogue, an academic advisor for the Canadian Graduate School of Ministry and a director of Return Ministries. Marty graduated with a BA honours in theology from Briercrest College and a Master of Jewish Studies from the Messianic Jewish Theological Institute. Marty has authored three books: To the Jew First: The Formation of One New Man, I Have Installed My King, and Return to Me. Marty and Sue have been married for over 40 years. They currently live in the Vancouver area to be close to their three children and four grandchildren.

Annie Elliott

Annie Elliott is the founder and lead pastor at Shalom Restoration Fellowship (SRF), in the nation’s capital. SRF was established in 2016. Annie has a passion to see One New Man congregations raised up with Jew and Gentiles worshipping Messiah Yeshua together and deepening the understanding of the Biblical Hebraic Roots of the Christian faith.

Annie has ministered nationally and internationally building bridges of friendship, support and cooperation between Canada and Israel and other nations, having served as the Canadian Director of the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus from 2005 – 2015. Annie has led 32 mission trips to Israel. She has participated in numerous mission trips in many different nations.

Bill Southward

Bill Southward, after practising law in Victoria, B.C. for decades, in 2006 began pastoring, with his wife Edie, at Temple Yeshua a ‘one new man’ congregation they started. In the late 1980s, the Lord gave Bill the revelation of the ‘’one new man’, Jew and Gentile believers together in Messiah. This started a journey of a desire that the Body of Messiah would receive this revelation.

They retired as pastors in 2022 and remain as elders. Bill is a member of the Christian Ministers Association. He is on the leadership team of David’s House of Prayer in Victoria, which Edie and he participating in starting in 2015 as an outreach of Temple Yeshua to the Victoria Church community. Bill and Edie have been married for 52 years and they have three grown children and three grandsons.

Edie Southward

Edie Southward was born in Quebec City of French-Canadian heritage. She and her husband Bill moved to Victoria in 1973. It was in 1985, when Jesus said to her “If you love Me, love My People” that she started walking in the Jewish Roots of her faith, which led her to become a volunteer at the Jewish Community for many years. She was the leader of the Order of St-Luke healing ministry from 1989 to 1996 when the Lord said to her “You have been praying for the healing of your bodies, now you will be praying for the healing of My Body, Israel and the Church”. In 2006, with her husband Bill, she became a pastor of Temple Yeshua, a ‘one new man’ congregation. On a trip to Israel, she visited Succat Hallel and caught the heart for houses of prayer. In 2015, with a wonderful team of leaders and intercessors, David’s House of Prayer was born in Victoria. She and her husband retired as pastors in 2022 and remain as elders at Temple Yeshua. Edie and Bill live in Victoria, B.C. They have 3 grown children and 3 grandsons.

Adam Quito

Adam Quito is the Pastor House of David congregation, in Montreal Quebec.

Adam is also the host of the daily WCHP Radio program, “The Watchman Report.” Adam is a gifted evangelist; the Lord has sent him numerous nations in Africa and South America. His passion and desire is to Revive the believers, connect the church to its Jewish roots and win the lost to Christ.

Michael Gertsman

Rabbi Michael Gertsman is founder and director of Lion of Judah Ministries in Montreal. He has served in a ministry capacity both in Evangelical and Messianic Jewish circles since 1982, and has planted and led four Messianic Jewish congregations in Canada since 1985. In 2007, he moved to Israel, and now travels internationally as a conference speaker, and spends his summers in Canada speaking and doing apostolic style ministry in churches and Messianic congregations from coast-to-coast.