The 14th Annual Virtual Burlington Leadership Prayer Breakfast

Thursday, May 6, 2021

James-Kelly-Burlington-Prayer-Breakfast-Guest-Speaker
James Kelly, Founder and CEO of FaithTech

Welcoming Remarks
Norm Cheng, Committee Chair, Burlington Leadership Prayer Breakfast

Master of Ceremonies 
Leslie J. Smith, B.A., LL.B., Q. Arb
Employment Lawyer / Mediator / Arbitrator
www.lesliejsmithlaw.com

Greetings from the Mayor of the City of Burlington
Mayor Marianne Meed Ward

Prayer Invocation
Stephen J. Tanner, Chief of Police, Halton Regional Police Services

Musical Performance
Greg Sykes, Real Estate Agent – The Sykes Real Estate Team 
www.thesykesteam.com

Student Scripture Reading
Thomas Soliman, Kings Christian Collegiate                                         
Sarah Pickering, Corpus Christi Catholic S.S

Leadership Prayer
Ian McSporren, Broker & Real Estate Agent – Bright Realty Team   
www.brightrealty.ca

Keynote Speaker Introduction
Gary Hoftyzer, Will, Business & Estate Lawyer
www.georgestreetlawgroup.com/gary-a-hoftyzer/

Keynote Speaker
James Kelly, Founder of FaithTech  
www.faithtech.com

Keynote Speaker Thanks 
Norm Cheng, Committee Chair, Burlington Leadership Prayer Breakfast

National Anthem
Greg Sykes, Real Estate Agent – The Sykes Real Estate Team
www.thesykesteam.com

Closing Remarks
Leslie J. Smith, B.A., LL.B., Q. Arb
Employment Lawyer / Mediator / Arbitrator
  
www.lesliejsmithlaw.com

*Video Production – www.bottledmedia.com

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About James Kelly

James Kelly is Founder and CEO of FaithTech, a global community of tech enthusiasts for Jesus. The work of FaithTech has been mentioned in The New York Times, Wired Magazine and Christianity Today. James has spoken live over 350 times in remote villages in South Sudan to Google HQ in Silicon Valley. He has been featured on 100 Huntley, 700 Club and Faith Today. James is married with two young children and lives in Waterloo, Canada. 

Evidence of James’ entrepreneurship was apparent long before he started a career – he knew that he wanted to create and contribute something of value and pursued ways of doing just that.

At the age of 17, he wrote, produced and performed his first music album. At 19 he co-founded a media company creating faith-based music videos that incorporated original music, speaking and video with one message.

He was one of the first graduates from Dalhousie University’s Bachelor of Commerce with a specialization in Entrepreneurship. He married his best friend Karen and before welcoming their son, Judah, they embarked on some formative experiences together. Living in Kajo Keji, South Sudan for three months while doing missions work introduced them to a new level of poverty and heartache. The experience deepened their desire to help those experiencing this kind of circumstance and hopelessness.

​As God’s calling for him became more clear, James pursued and earned a Masters of Divinity from McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario. Soon after, he and Karen helped strategically launch Radiant City Church with roughly 20 others, intentionally moving into neighbourhoods in need within the city, continuing their passion to share the Gospel and the tangible hope of Christ in some of the city’s darkest areas.

After attending a leadership conference in October 2015 where he heard the statement, “In the midst of devastation, there is an opportunity for innovation,” James was propelled to pursue innovation to help the poor and spread the Gospel of Jesus in new ways. He saw the opportunity the church could have if it would use technology to transform the way it is impacting and interacting with the world that surrounds it and needs Jesus.

And thus sparked what has now become a movement. FaithTech.

​James quit his full-time recruitment business near the end of 2016 to focus all his effort on the FaithTech movement.

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