Elevation, Waterloo, ON

Originally founded as The Embassy student church in 1998, a progressive hive from Waterloo Pentecostal Assembly; Embassy Unplugged founded in 2000 for the leadership, which morphed in 2001 into Elevation, an initially separate, smaller church for families, in contrast to as many as a thousand students attending Embassy at the time.

New Hope Community Church, founded as a Brethren assembly, under the direction of Steve Tulloch (served 2002-2008 @ New Hope), merged with Elevation as an independent evangelical church in 2008. Originally from Sault Ste. Marie, Steve graduated from Mount Carmel Bible School, his parents previously founded Island Bible Chapel (OB) @ Richards Landing, and Steve served on faculty with Kawartha Lakes Bible College; Upon merging, Steve was able to serve as an associate pastor at Elevation without obtaining Pentecostal credentials, as from the beginning

Sources

• "The New Canadian Pentecostals" by Adam Stewart