MLA: Rob Fleming - Victoria Hillside

Today we pray for Rob Fleming. As Chair of the Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts, we ask for wisdom and discernment over the finances of our Provincial Government and the clear and correct accounting reporting to its citizenry. We ask for God's strategies as he speaks into the tourism sector which is currently experiencing hardship due the global economic financial shakeup. May he be given insights into the whole arena of Advanced Education as we seek to provide post graduate studies of the highest and most excellent standards. We bless and honour his commitment to be a representative for the people and may God shield Rob and his wife Maura and family from the stresses and strains of public service.

Rob Fleming was elected to represent the riding of Victoria-Hillside on May 17, 2005, and re-elected to represent Victoria-Swan Lake on May 12, 2009.
 Rob is the Chair of the Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts, and is the Opposition Critic for Tourism and the Critic for Advanced Education.

Rob previously served two terms as a Victoria City Councillor. He was first elected in 1999 at the age of 28.

Rob was the Chair of the City's Finance and Personnel Committee and the Council liaison to the Advisory Transportation Committee. Rob also held the City's youth portfolio, was Chair of the Capital Regional District Health Facilities Planning Committee and Vice-Chair of the Capital Regional District Housing Corporation.


Rob has been involved in a number of community organizations, including the Work Place, the Veins of Life Watershed Society, and the Victoria Cool Aid Society Foundation.



Rob received a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Victoria and has worked in research and communications since graduating.






Rob lives in Victoria with his wife Maura.

MLA: Mike Farnworth - Port Coquitlam

We give thanks for Mike Farnworth today and the positions he holds within the the government. Here is a man that has been given many responsibilities - we thank you Lord for the favour upon him to hold these positions.

Grant him wisdom, understanding and the ability to walk in these powerful positions with a 'right spirit' - a spirit of justice, of righteousness, and holding to the plume line of truth for which our country and province has been established upon. Bless him today and let peace surround him as he works within the framework of the positions he holds.

Mike Farnworth was first elected as the MLA for Port Coquitlam Burke Mountain in 1991, and re-elected in 1996 and 2005. Mike was re-elected again as MLA for Port Coquitlam in 2009.



Mike is the Opposition House Leader, and serves as Opposition Critic for Public Safety and Solicitor General.


Mike also served the people of Port Coquitlam as a three term City Councillor. During his time as the MLA for Port Coquitlam he served in numerous Cabinet positions, including Minister of Health and Minister of Social Development and Economic Security.


From 2001 to 2004, Mike worked in Bulgaria, the Balkans and most recently Iraq on democratic governance programs to help build multiparty democracies in former one-party states.

Mike was raised in Port Coquitlam and has lived there for over 30 years.

MLA: Hon. Kevin Falcon

Heavenly Father, we give thanks for this hard-working vibrant young man, chosen and entrusted with the new portfolio, as Minister of Health.

May You give him wise and strong leadership, to execute with excellence, the challenging demands of our health system.

We pray, You will surround him with a dedicated, skilled, capable and dependable staff, to strongly support him , that will carry out their responsibilities with integrity and faithfulness.

We ask that You will bless him with clear vision,and sound judgement, to seek for workable solutions and implement necessary changes, so vital to this portfolio.

Encourage and supply him with teams of expertise to innovate and initiate, wise decisions that will benefit all.


We pray especially he will be abundantly blessed with good health, body , soul and spirit. Amen!

Kevin Falcon was appointed Minister of Health Services on June 10, 2009.

Kevin Falcon was first elected in 2001 to represent the riding of Surrey-Cloverdale, and was re-elected in 2005 and 2009. Kevin Falcon was previously appointed Minister of Transportation on January 26, 2004. He initially served as Minister of State for De-regulation.

Kevin Falcon was appointed Minister of Transportation on January 26, 2004.


As well, Minister Falcon has previously overseen a capital program that includes the Kicking Horse Canyon, the Sea to Sky Highway and the William Bennett Bridge, among many others.


Minister Falcon's leadership recently earned him recognition in Vancouver Magazine's annual ranking of the city's 50 most influential leaders.

Before his election to the Legislative Assembly in 2001, Kevin Falcon was president of Access Group, a corporate communications firm he founded in 1998. He has also worked in the real estate development industry and was vice-president of Northwest Investment Properties. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Simon Fraser University, and his real estate education at the University of British Columbia.

Mr. Falcon has been active with his local Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club. He is a past director of the Vancouver Sea Festival, past-president of the Vancouver Junior Chamber of Commerce, and a former volunteer with the Cloverdale RCMP Bike Patrol.

MLA: Mable Elmore - Vancouver Kensington

We pray for Mable Elmore today and ask that you would help her as she takes on her new responsibilities as MLA for Vancouver Kensington.  Lord, we are so thankful that you have called the first Filipino Canadian to serve as an MLA.  Thank you for granting us leaders with diversity and a broad perspective. Help her Lord as she sets up her community office and give her wisdom, as she is already dealing with a wide variety of concerns from her constituents on issues such as affordable housing, class sizes in schools, and workplace conditions. 

We ask this in Jesus Name, Amen.

MLA: Doug Donaldson - Stikine

Father in heaven, we bring before you Doug Donaldson, MLA for Stikine.

Lord Jesus, you know Doug comes from an area of unsurpassed beauty and brings with him, not only the needs of his people, but represents the land in that part of our province.

Father, we ask that you will anoint him with strength, wisdom and purity, causing other members to raise their sights, as when an eagle soars overhead. We ask that he will bring into the Legislature the constant reminder that we have been given a gift in British Columbia's beauty, and that we are responsible to be wise in our treatment of that gift. Give him insight, Lord, that he is able to see the outcome of seemingly harmless plans, and we ask that, even though in Opposition, his voice will come through as clear as a flute, bringing joy and clarity, causing eyes to be lifted upwards in debates and legislations, that your purposes for this beautiful province be truly sought and followed.

In Jesus Name, Amen

MLA: Adrian Dix

Today we pray for Adrian Dix and ask for your wisdom as he continues in his role as health critic. The Health portfolio has and will have many areas that need to be worked on. With the coming 'wave of baby boomers' that will flood the health care system there needs to be level-headed yet creative solutions to meet the challenges ahead.

We pray for great insight for Adrian as he works in this area. We ask that Adrian would work in a non-partisan way for the betterment of the people of British Columbia. We ask that the solutions presented would not about any one party but rather be focused on providing the best care for each and every British Columbian. Fill Adrian with brilliant and workable solutions to our health care system. Bless him and all that he does and will do in the future.

Adrian Dix was elected as the MLA for Vancouver Kingsway on May 17, 2005.
 Adrian is the Opposition Caucus Deputy House Leader, and serves as Opposition Critic for Health.


Adrian has extensive experience as a non-profit director, education community leader, government strategist and media commentator.


For the past five years, Adrian travelled the province as Executive Director of Canadian Parents for French – BC & Yukon Branch, a non-profit organization promoting language education.


Adrian is a commentator on public policy whose regular columns were published in the Victoria Times-Colonist and The Source, a Vancouver multicultural newspaper. Over the past five years, he was regularly called upon to present views on public policy issues for local, provincial, national and international media.


Adrian also served as the Chief of Staff to Premier Glen Clark from 1996 to 1999.


Adrian grew up in Vancouver, graduated from University of British Columbia and now lives in the Collingwood neighbourhood.

MLA: Hon. Michael de Jong - Attorney General

Dear Father,


Today we delight in You. You are the One who brings the sunlight and the rain, the One who knows the hairs of our head and the attitudes of our hearts. And You are the Author and Provider of all that we need—including our BC legislative representatives.

Today we bring Mike de Jong before you. Father, may he be aware of Your presence surrounding him and providing him with the wisdom he needs to fulfill the responsibilities of Attorney General and Government House Leader. May You lift the veil created by our sinful natures, and allow him to receive insight and understanding from You. Help him to understand Your ways, Your purposes, and Your principles, and recognize how they fit into his responsibilities as he works within the restrictions of our laws.

Bless him with physical health, and help him to arrange his busy life so that he has quality time with his family. Father, we thank you for his commitment to his constituency; may he serve them well. And may Your will be accomplished within our province.

Michael de Jong was re-elected as MLA for the new riding of Abbotsford West in the spring of 2009



He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in a 1994 byelection to represent the electoral district of Matsqui. He was re-elected in 1996 and again in 2001 to the new riding of Abbotsford-Mount Lehman, where he was again re-elected in 2005.
 Mr. de Jong was appointed Attorney General in June of 2009, he also serves as the government house leader.


Mr. de Jong previously served as Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation.


Mr. de Jong has previously served as Minister of Labour and Citizens’ Services and Minister of Forests. Prior to that, he was deputy house leader for the Official Opposition and served as a critic for a variety of portfolios.

Before his election, Mr. de Jong practised as a lawyer in his Abbotsford firm. He holds a bachelor of arts degree from Carleton University in Ottawa and a law degree from the University of Alberta.