Dr. David Barker

Rev. Jack Flietstra

David is Professor of Biblical Studies at Heritage College & Seminary in Cambridge, Ontario. He presently teaches Old Testament Survey, Hermeneutics, and the Book of Psalms. He has taught at Heritage since 1978. He has served as Academic Dean, Vice-President of Academics, and Interim President over the years. His specialty is in Old Testament, particularly the Psalms and Wisdom Books. He has pastored several churches including Summerside Community Church (formerly Westminster Hope Baptist Church) and Stoney Creek Baptist Church (formerly Central Baptist Church) both in London, Ontario. He has also served as an Associate Pastor at Benton Street Baptist Church in Kitchener. He has ministered in several churches as an interim pastor and is busy most Sundays speaking in churches across the province. David is married to Lorraine, and they have five married children and fourteen grandchildren.

Jack has been in ministry most of his life, having grown up in a pastor’s home on the mission field of Belgium. Jack graduated from Central Baptist in Toronto back in 1986, and has served in Fellowship churches since 1983: Wilmar Heights (Scarborough, ON) and Calvary Baptist (Burlington, ON), First Baptist (Cochrane, ON), and at Lansing Baptist (Sudbury, ON) since 1995. Jack has also served on the FEB Central Regional board, and is serving as one of FEB Central’s Distric Directors . In 2010 Jack and his wife Dedee started a ministry called “The Shepherd’s Lounge Ltd.”. This is a nondenominational ministry to pastor’s and their families. Jack and Dedee have 6 children, 7 grandchildren and another grandchild on the way. They have a strong familial connection to All Tribes as our executive director, Chrissy Flietstra, is their youngest daughter.