Our Team
Rev. Beth Walker
Beth is skilled at creating community and a sense of belonging. Her passion is to create and to experience connecting our everyday life story to the ancient Biblical stories and faith traditions. Her ministry in the United Church both volunteered and paid, spans 15 years. Before that, she practiced interior design. She is a diaconal minister, a graduate of the Center for Christian Studies and Spiritual Director from the Pacific Jubilee program. She says her understanding of God comes from the abundant community at Fairfield and Moss. She experiences God in dialogue and through spiritual practice such as silence and the Healing Pathway. She loves to have coffee with the folks – don’t be afraid to say hello!
“Come, come, whoever you are
Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving – it doesn’t matter,
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come even if you have broken your vow a hundred times.
Come, come again, come.”
– Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
Rebecca Fillier Adminstration and Communications
Rebecca was born in Newfoundland. She has lived across the country and has been coast to coast three times, and now is currently residing in Prince George, BC. She’s a collector of teapots and tea-brewers and is a multi-generational ‘Preacher’s Kid’. She has been involved with the United Church her whole life. She has been doing digital ministry for 5-7 years. Before that being a General Council Commissioner as well as her Presbytery secretary (from before the restructuring in 2019). When she’s not doing digital ministry, you can find her doing digital story art, visual storytelling, graphic design and UI/UX design for websites.
Diego Barrientos
Musician
Diego Barrientos was born in Santiago, Chile and has been playing traditional Chilean guitar most of his life. He began playing folk guitar at 10 years old, later studying classical and flamenco guitar. Since his arrival to Canada, Diego has discovered new and different aspects of the guitar to explore; he has incorporated these into his unique and personalized style of fusion. Diego has a long history as a church musician, leading choirs and providing musical direction for over two decades. He has studied liturgy through several different courses in Chile, and worked alongside the Brothers of Taizé in music leadership for over a year to prepare their international gathering of young adults in 2010.
Diego has a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education and taught music and pastoral education in Catholic schools in Chile for 10 years before moving to Canada. Diego is married and has a 6 year old son and a 1 year old daughter.
