Why bother with Church?
That’s a great question. With so many ways to spend a Sunday afternoon, why take the time to gather with people you might not see during the week, singing songs that may be unfamiliar?
The Bible paints a beautiful picture of what the church is meant to be—more than just a meeting, it's a family. Not a perfect family—because real families are often messy—but a family rooted in something eternal: the Kingdom of God.
The church is the family of God, brought together not by shared interests or backgrounds, but by God's love and purpose. And like any healthy family, we’re learning to love, support, and encourage one another as we walk together in faith.
The church is also called to be an embassy of God's kingdom—a place where the values, love, and presence of the King are made visible to the world. Each of us, as members, are ambassadors of that kingdom, pointing others to the goodness and glory of God through our lives. We are living, together, for Christ and His Kingdom.
It’s an incredible privilege to be part of this—to belong to God’s family and to take part in what He is doing in the world through His kingdom. We hope you’ll visit with us and find it to be a gift, not a bother.
What to expect at our services
We follow a liturgical style of worship, meaning our services follow a set, thoughtful order. Everyone present is an active participant—through singing, reading Scripture aloud, praying together, and responding with physical gestures like standing, sitting, or kneeling.
Our worship is guided by the Book of Common Prayer, a rich and historic resource rooted in the first prayer book of the Anglican Church from the 1500s.
If this form of worship is new to you, we invite you to join in as you feel comfortable. The service guide will help guide you when you join us. Congregational responses are printed in bold, and instructions for when to stand, sit, or kneel are clearly marked. As a general rhythm: we stand to praise, sit to listen and learn, and sit or kneel to pray. We want to worship together, with all of our hearts, minds and strength.
Why do we worship this way? Because we believe that the way we pray shapes what we believe. The words of the service—carefully chosen and deeply rooted in Scripture—both express and form our theology. The Book of Common Prayer has been called “the Bible arranged for worship.”
We’re glad you’re here and look forward to worshiping with you!
Our Staff
Rev. Dr. Benjamin Wall
Rector
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Benjamin has been the rector at Christ The King since February 2024. Prior to this role, he served as an assisting priest and the Director for Pastoral Care at Church of the Redeemer in Greensboro NC, the Director of Leadership Development for the Triad deanery within the Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope, and diocesan coordinator for the Matthew 25 Initiative, helping churches care for the least of these in their communities through equipping, engagement, and encouragement. Benjamin completed his PhD in Practical Theology at the University of Aberdeen, specializing in Christian ethics and practical theology of mental health and disability.
Benjamin is married to Leah, and they have three awesome children, Elisha, Genevieve, and Cassian. Benjamin enjoys good light roasted coffee (the more floral and fruity the better), reading, teaching, preaching, playing chess, camping with the family, running (sometimes), and snowboarding. Benjamin has a heart for helping the church contend for hope in broken places.
Rev. Leah Wall
Deacon
Church Administration
Leah.Wall@CTKToronto.com
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Leah moved with Benjamin to Christ the King Church in 2024 and installed as a deacon at CTK. Prior to this move, she was a catechist for children at Church of the Redeemer in Greensboro, NC and a Children's Spiritual Director for preschool and kindergarten at an Episcopal school. In 2025, she began work at CTK as the church administrator.
She has been homeschooling her children since 2011. Elisha, her eldest son, graduated in 2024 and is away at university, but she still enjoys homeschooling the younger two!
As a trained catechist with the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd (Levels 1, 2 and 3), she is also in the process of becoming a formation trainer with CGS. Worshipping with children is a great joy of her life.
In her spare time, she enjoys learning new crafts, camping with the family, a good discussion with a friend, or exploring in Toronto. She has a heart for encouraging the church to live in childlike wonder remembering Jesus' words that unless we turn and become like a child, we will never enter the Kingdom of God.
Rev. Logan Gates
Honourary Assistant
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Logan recently completed his PhD in Political Theory at the University of Toronto, studying the emergence of human rights in early modern political thought. Originally from Northern Virginia, Logan trained for ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, before moving to Toronto in 2015 to work as an apologist, speaking on tough questions about the Christian faith at universities across Canada and the US. In 2019, he was ordained as a Priest in the Anglican Diocese of Canada.
In 2018 Logan married his bride Samantha -- a native Torontonian! Logan loves running and spending time on, in, or near the water, especially windsurfing, sailing, and surfing. He enjoys a hot cup of tea and talking about the big questions in life.
Rev. David Alenskis
Honourary Assistant
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David is a priest, missionary, and PhD candidate in historical theology at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto. He first sensed while growing up as a teenager in Indiana that the Lord was calling him to pastoral ministry, and after graduating from Cedarville University he got his first taste of long-term cross-cultural ministry by volunteering at a Christian orphanage on the northern coast of Peru.
After completing his theological studies at Westminster Seminary California in 2009 and undertaking a curacy at a parish in the San Diego area, he was sent to serve as a full-time missionary with the Society of Anglican Missionaries and Senders (USA) in 2011: first in Buenos Aires, Argentina and then in western Belize, where until December 2020 he served as the pastor of two rural Anglican churches and three primary schools.
In 2016 he married his wife Mary Beth, and together they have three spirited young children: Austin, James and Lily. Their family is now dually supported by SAMS and the Canadian missionary society Into All the World. Having come near the end of their time of preparation in Toronto, their family is currently making plans to follow God as missionaries to Europe, with David serving and teaching at Tyndale Seminary, Europe.
Roger Ong
Assistant Minister
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Roger is the assistant minister at Christ the King. He started coming to the church in 2015 when the family moved to Toronto. Prior to that, he spent four years in London, UK as the assistant minister of an anglican church. Roger received his theological training in Regent College, Vancouver. Before entering full-time ministry, he worked in the Singapore civil service, an equity research firm and a land transport company. As an undergraduate, Roger studied economics at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan.
Originally from Singapore, Roger is a first-generation Christian putting his faith in Christ as his Lord and Saviour when he was twelve. Married to Corrina, they have three children, Maegan, Shaina and Timothy. Roger enjoys reading, taking walks with their dogs, Autumn and Maisie, playing tennis and a good conversation over coffee or tea.
Roger is passionate about discipleship. As part of the staff team, he encourages the church to be a growing a congregation of disciple-making disciples who love Jesus.
Rev. Dr. Glen Taylor
Honourary Associate
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After being a regular visitor to Christ the King since 2017, Glen became a member of Christ the King and also an honorary assistant priest in 2020. Now approaching retirement, Glen has for the past three decades been a professor of Old Testament at Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto. Previously (from 2002–2020) he was ordained as a priest in the Anglican Church of Canada. Glen served as the interim rector from 2021 through the end of 2023.
Glen was reared in a Christian family in Calgary, Alberta. He accepted Christ as his Saviour while a youngster. While attending university there he fell in love with the academic study of the Old Testament, a logical complement to an interest he also has in preaching and pastoring. After completing an MTh degree from Dallas Theological Seminary he attended Yale University where he completed his PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures, specializing in Hebrew and the Old Testament. There he met another Canadian PhD student, Marion, whom he married and with whom he has taught alongside at Wycliffe since 1987. Marion and Glen have three adult children, David, Catherine, and Peter, the former two of whom are married. They live in the downtown area and have a large woolly dog named Seamus. In retirement Glen hopes to teach for short periods of time overseas, including the Gambia, where he helped found a Bachelor of Christian Religious Studies degree at the University of the Gambia.
Glen enjoys spending time at the cottage and returning to the Rocky Mountains to hike and ski. Other interests include collecting antiques (including a 1962 Ford Thunderbird), scull-boating, and horseback riding.
Rev. Robin Guinness
Honourary Associate
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Robin has ministered within the Anglican Church, initially in England but most extensively in Canada, for over 50 years, working in three different Canadian dioceses. For 25 years he was Rector of St. Stephen’s Church Westmount, Montreal. For six years he was Associate Rector of Little Trinity Church, Toronto. He also worked for two years with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in Toronto.
After his retirement in 2005, Robin taught part-time at Wycliffe College, Toronto, for 5 years, and joined the Anglican Network in Canada in January 2011. Since then he has been an honorary associate at Christ the King.
The roots of ANiC can be traced in part to the Canada-wide Anglican Essentials Conference that took place in Montreal in 1994. The 700 bishops, clergy, and laity that attended that conference produced the Montreal Declaration of Anglican Essentials. As chairman of Barnabas Anglican Ministries at that time, Robin was one of the architects of the Montreal conference.
Robin gives thanks for the rich partnership in ministry with his wife Sandra that has been a gift and blessing over the years. They rejoice to see that the work of the gospel is a high priority in the lives of their three sons and of their families. Robin and Sandra are blessed with nine grandchildren.