Chris will be joining our Administration Team next year to work with our Online Courses and Teachers as well as our students in the Grad Program. He comes with two years experience in DL and many years experience as a teacher administrator. Chris' favorite two words in education are "Christian Worldview." It is for this reason, we are very excited about him joining the HCOS staff.

" I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else." - C.S. Lewis

I was born into a Canadian Air Force family and am old enough to remember the controversial times of the Beatles, the hippies and Trudeau mania. When I was two years old, we moved to Europe, and lived in Belgium, France and Italy. After returning to Canada in latter part of the 1960’s, I attended a DND school on the military base in Edmonton. Most of my early years were spent in the same city and attended a Baptist Church and began attending a Christian Academy starting in grade seven. At the age of fourteen, God brought me to himself and open my eyes to see the greatest of his glory and importantly the greatness of his grace, which taught me that I’m loved by a very big holy God. In 1976, I attended high school in Tacoma Washington followed by two years at Bob Jones University in Greenville South Carolina.

It was during the late summer of 1982, I was planning to return to BJU but my dad took a turn for the worse and latter that fall, died. Finances were short and instead, I went to work for B.C. Tel and later in Alberta for a radiography company. During those recession years in 1983 I returned to school but this time at the University of Alberta were I received my B.A. in History (foreign policy and international relations) with a minor in Political Science and German. It was at this University that I meet my wife Karen, where she also graduated with a degree in languages (speaking English, German, French and Spanish). We were married in 1988 in Chilliwack, where both are families still live, and moved to Surrey in the same year, Vancouver the following year, Richmond in 1990 and then to South Surrey in 2001. I have three children; all three attend Heritage Christian School in South Surrey in grades eight, six and one. We have been attending Christ the King Presbyterian in South Surrey since its inception in the mid ‘90’s.

My first desire after leaving university was to enter into the diplomatic corps to do embassy work but God closed that door and directed me towards the teaching profession, which I resisted at first. It was through the process of not getting into diplomacy and doing some teaching work in our church, Faith Presbyterian, in Vancouver, God made it clear to me that he wanted me to be an ambassador for him and not for our federal government. Others saw a gift and the desire to teach and suggested that I consider the teaching profession. I can truly say that this vocation has been re-affirmed again and again. Since beginning in 1990, I have taught grades five through twelve and some adult classes in areas such as history, law, psychology, computers, English and so on.

Some of my most favoured authors are Martin Luther, C.S Lewis, N.T. Wright, John Piper and John Eldridge. I love the challenge of a good book that awakens me to new insights and causes me to think outside the box and systems that have captivated so much of our attention, imagination, our hearts and minds. I also love Calvin and Hobbes cartoons and collect them whenever I can. I’m a big fan of U2 simply because Bono, the lead singer, has his finger on the pulse of our culture and is able create music that challenges it. Verses such as Romans 12:1-2 and II Corinthians 10:1-6 remind me to keep my heart and mind fixed on Christ. John Piper said it best when in his book “Desiring God Meditations of a Christian Hedonist” he said;

“ God is most glorified in me when I am most satisfied in him.”