My
name is Jeff Eastwood and I am the Associate Pastor at Northside Baptist Church
along with my beautiful wife Melanie and my three children Esther, Titus and
Elias. My wife and I were married in July of 2002 and welcomed our daughter
Esther into the world in July of 2003. Titus was born in May of 2005 and Elias
in August of 2009 and we thank God for blessing us with these wonderful
children. We accepted the invitation to come minister together with Northside
Baptist Church in August of 2003 and have enjoyed a great time of ministry
seeing what God has done and will do as we faithfully serve Him.
I was born in Saint John, New Brunswick and accepted Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour at a young age. I was brought up in the Fundamental Baptist Church until age six at which time my family moved to Nova Scotia. We attended Oakhill Independent Baptist Church and I was baptized there at age ten. At a summer camp after grade nine I made the decision to do whatever God called me to do and soon thereafter felt that God was leading me to become a minister. After graduating high school I attended Northland Baptist Bible College and received my Bachelor of Arts in Theology in 2002. I attended Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary for three years until my health caused me to move to Toronto. I am currently continuing to work towards a Master of Divinity degree from Calvary Baptist Theological Seminary through their satellite campus in Mississauga. It is my great passion and privilege to serve God with my life and I count it a privilege to serve Him at Northside Baptist Church.
My wife was born Melanie Flietstra in Cambridge, Ontario and accepted Jesus Christ as her personal Saviour at a young age. Her parents left for Belgium as missionaries when she was four and she spent much of her life in Europe. She attended a boarding school for missionary children in the Black Forest area of Germany during her parent’s ministry in Belgium, and then finished her education in Cambridge after her parents return. She studied for one year at a Bible College in Sweden and then returned to Canada in 2000 where we met in 2001. God has given her many gifts and abilities, and she is the Nursery Coordinator at Northside Baptist Church as well as a Sunday School teacher.
It is a privilege for my family to be a part of the ministry at Northside Baptist Church and it has been a great pleasure to see God at work in our lives and the lives of those we minister to. God has richly blessed during our time here and we look forward to what He will do in the future.
In His service only by His grace,
Pastor Jeff Eastwood
