Deacon Kevin, the son of a Protestant minister, grew up as a committed Christian spending many years in a few different Protestant churches. He graduated from the University of Calgary with a Geomatics Engineering degree in 1994 and has had an eclectic assortment of jobs including seismic survey auditing, serving as a missionary with Wycliffe Bible Translators, testing high-end GPS receivers, designing wine cellars, and is currently working as a GIS Analyst. He journeyed into Orthodoxy in 2002-2003 at St. Herman of Alaska Orthodox Church in Langley, B.C. while studying linguistics with Wycliffe. Deacon Kevin was tonsured a reader in January 2006 at St. Peter’s. From 2007 to 2011, while living in Winnipeg, he studied Orthodox theological courses at St. Arseny Institute and was ordained a sub-deacon August 2009 by His Eminence, Archbishop Seraphim. Since returning to Calgary in 2011, he has been serving at St. Peter’s and was ordained to the diaconate July 22, 2012 by His Grace, Bishop Irénée.

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