David and Joan Ellyatt

The younger years Pioneer Pastor - Centralia Church 1970 David at age 17 years. David & Joan - Arctic Canada 2003

An Introduction to David and Joan Ellyatt David Ellyatt was born and raised in London, Ontario. In 1963 he married Joan Waggott, a London girl and together they have raised three children. They are also the proud grandparents of four girls and two boys.. David graduated from Elim Bible Institute in Lima, New York and was ordained in June 1964 by the Independent Assemblies of God International. David and Joan have served in various ministerial capacities, as youth pastor, pioneer pastor, short term missionary and they served seven years as a full time chaplain/counsellors for the mentally disabled. In March of 1992 he became the Senior Pastor of Faith Tabernacle of London, and served in this capacity until December 31, 1999. David is a capable minister of the Word, and has ministered at pastoral and church seminars in Ontario, across  Canada, the United States, England, and Colombia. In 1984 the founder of Ark Aid Street Mission invited him to help establish a drop-in centre in East London. He served as president of the Board from 1986 to June of 1991. During this time he and Joan also volunteered time to the Mission for counselling and fund raising. This ministry continues to serve the greater London area. Since 1986 David has served on the Administrative Committee of the Independent Assemblies of God International(Canada) as their treasurer and recording secretary. David  worked twenty-six years as a Registered Medical Technologist, certified by the Canadian Society of Medical Technologists in the general laboratory disciplines and the discipline specialty of Histotechnology. David also worked at Mohawk College, Department of Health Sciences in Hamilton as an Instructor. As was an elected  member of the Board of the Ontario Society of Medical Technologists, he served as their Provincial Director of Education. From February 1984 to March 1992, he was employed as a supervisory technologist in the Department of Pathology at University Hospital (London Health Sciences). Note:  David gave his heart to the Lord in a Sunday School class in the Fall of 1952 at a small church in south London on Moore Street called Bethel Chapel. Praise the Lord for faithful Sunday School teachers. A year later he started attending Faith Tabernacle of London, a church which was moving in revival.  This church remains his home church  and provides a covering for him through the Independant Assemblies of God International (Canada) A Miraculous Touch: At the age of seventeen David was struck down by a paralysis that left him paralized from the ears down. On the evening that the doctors told his family to, "go home and make the funeral arangements," he received a touch from the Lord. His testimony of how God brought him through and has proven faithful all these years will encourage you and strengthen your faith in the Lord. Someone riped your heart out and threw it against the wall! On September 24 th, 1995 during a service during which the Holy Spirit was moving in a precious way, Joan went home with pains in her chest. She was later rushed to the hospital where the doctors diagnosed that she had had a massive heart attack, and over two thirds of her heart was dammaged. The story of Joan's vision of the Lord while the doctors worked on her to try and save her life will bring tears to your eyes and increase your understanding of how God takes us through. Today, David says, you try and keep up to her, I cann't. Arctic Missions During the late eighties David and Joan meet John and Tyyne Spillenaar pioneer missionaries to Canada's aboriginal people and founder of Arctic Misssion Outreach Trust.  While the senior pastor at faith Tabernacle of London, David helped to organize a team that joined John in Canada's Arctic to build a church in Salluit, Nunavik.  A year latter David was invtied to attend a Bible Conference in the same community and his heart was touched by the Lord.  After stepping down from his position as Senioe Pastor of Faith Tabernacle of London, he was appointed Director of Arctic Mission Outreach Trust Fund and has been serving in that position until now.  For more infor mation on any of these ministries please click on the links below. Arctic Mission Outreach Trust Fund - www.arcticmissions.com Independent Assemblies of God International (Canada) - www.iaogcan.com Faith Tabernacle of London - www.ftol.ca