{"id":277,"date":"2021-01-13T15:36:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T21:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/winnipeg\/?post_type=team&#038;p=277"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:04:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:04:46","slug":"derek-kirsten-reimer","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/winnipeg\/team\/derek-kirsten-reimer\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek &amp; Kirsten Reimer"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"y-intro guten-block \">\r\n\t<div class=\"y-intro--upper\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"grid-narrow\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"y-intro--upper--row\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-intro--upper--left\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"y-intro--title\">Derek &amp; Kirsten Reimer<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-intro--buttons\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"button primary\" href=\"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/winnipeg\/donate\/?category=Missionary%20Support&#038;missionary_des=Reimer%2C%20Derek%20%26%20Kirsten-5236\" target=\"_blank\">Partner Today<\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"button secondary\" href=\"mailto:derek.reimer@yfcwinnipeg.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Email Derek<\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-intro--upper--right\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-c-img extend\">\n\t\t<div class=\"y-c-img--extend medium\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/yfc.ca\/winnipeg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2026\/04\/IMG_0391-scaled.jpg);\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"y-c-img--contain\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/winnipeg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2026\/04\/IMG_0391-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t<div class=\"y-intro--lower\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"grid-narrow\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"y-intro--lower--left\">\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-intro--lower-content\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Derek, alongside his wife Kirsten started at YFC together March 1, 2020.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Derek grew up as a missionary kid in Bolivia and Uruguay, which later turned into God calling him to be active in his parents\u2019 ministry.\u00a0 Derek was only 5 weeks old when his family left for South America, and he came back with them just before going to Millar College Of The Bible.\u00a0 It was during his time there when Derek met his future wife, Kirsten, and heard God\u2019s call on his life to enter full time ministry.\u00a0 After a year of interning at Christian Fellowship Chapel, Derek heard of a position with YFC that allowed him and his wife to partner with the same church where they interned and started a youth program.\u00a0 Together, they served as Community Youth Ministers through YFC in South Osborne for a number of years reaching neighbourhood youth with the Gospel and connecting them to Youth For Christ and the local church.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Derek currently serves on the maintenance team at YFC Winnipeg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Derek likes to play sports (mostly soccer), he plays a variety of instruments, and really enjoys woodworking or any kind of handyman project.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8364,"parent":0,"template":"","department":[49],"class_list":["post-277","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/winnipeg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/winnipeg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/winnipeg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/winnipeg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/winnipeg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/winnipeg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/winnipeg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/winnipeg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}