Brandon Meyers: President
Interview done by Bethany Kathleen Grace
FULL NAME: Brandon David Meyers
STUDENT COUNCIL POSITION: Student Body President
HOMETOWN: Waterdown, Ontario. fastest growing town in Canada. contains beautiful waterfalls
CURRENTLY RESIDES: Here: room 9 of Lower Wideman
HOME CHURCH: Emmanuel Bible College; its a wonderful family of believers we are going to have wonderful times together.
FAMILY: Father teaches 6th grade and is 49 he is “really cool”, mother not divorced; stay at home and author; won Canadian Christian Author awards for life stories; Through Fire and Sea . 8 -12 we lived on a mercy ship; went around Africa and performed surgeries, and I have a strong relationship with both. I have a brother named Chadwick: 18 and were tight. Jillian, she’s 16 very pretty and I am very protective of her good ethics and morals.
PETS: yes I do! I have the cutest little poodle I have ever seen. her name is Duffy and she can jump high and stand on two feet and she likes to chase my cat missy. (short for mistletoe.) They both got spayed a couple years ago.
HOW DID YOU GET TO EBC: My Mom went here 30 years ago and encouraged me to do.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: Huron Centennial in Clinton, International Christian School from 4-8, then the Mercy Ship and Watertown high.
FAVOURITE BOOK AND WHY: Banner In The Sky because my dad read it me when I was a kid. its about conquering your mountains. Its a family thing. We’d sit down and my dad would read. The mountain that was being described by the author, Zermatt is the same mountain on Toblerone bars.
FAVOURITE FOOD: Pistachio slice; it a thin crust of pie, a layer of pistachio pudding then frosty cool whip on top. Quiche (ham and broccoli) and Shirley Temple.
FAVOURITE BIBLE VERSE: Ecclesiastes 1:2 Meaningless, Meaningless Everything is Meaningless.
MOST INFLUENTIAL PERSON TODAY AND WHY: Diane Cunningham; she is full of wisdom and my favourite course in all of school is David’s Kingdom and Kinship; I felt the holy spirit in her class.
FAVOURITE CARTOON CHARACTER AND WHY: Superman because he saves people and so he can see qualities of Christ in superman and he deals with injustice, which is a part of my mindset. I wish to work with injustice missions.
DREAM VACATION: Lake Louise, Alberta, Cape Town, South Africa and walk up Table mountain, Ado Elephant Park, Caldwell Zoo.
COURSE YOU WOULD LOVE TO TEACH OR TAKE AT EBC AND WHY: I would like to take a course on learning the following languages: Braille, mores code, sign language, Tanzanian.
IF YOU COULD CHANGE PLACES WITH ANYONE FOR A DAY AT EBC-WHO WOULD IT BE AND WHY: Brittney Rice because Brittany is cool and I would get to be Drew’s fiancé.
A QUOTE FOR THE MASSES: ” he is not a fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.” Jim Eliot
NAME YOU WISH YOU WERE GIVEN: Gabriel ; the angel.
FAVORITE TV SHOW: Psyche. is about a guy who pretends to be a physic.
WHAT ARE YOU WEARING RIGHT NOW? Jeans, steel toed boots, t shirts, watch, link silver necklace for purity and agent sunglasses.
HOW DO YOU WANT TO DIE? I want to be raptured but if I had to choose form of death I would choose methane gas.
MOST MEMORABLE PUBERTY EXPERIENCE: I could talk like Dr. Claw.
IF YOU COULD GO ON A DATE WITH ANYONE AT EBC, WHO WOULD IT BE AND WHY? Graham because he is loaded and he is tall.
EMBARRASSING STORY (50-100 words): When we were in Trinidad I caught a cockroach and I tried to drown the cockroach in water. After a while it would not drown and I decided to flush it down the toilet. Then I told a team member and he gave me wise advice, that it would come up the toilet and “bite me!” From henceforth I did not use that toilet the rest of the time I spent there.
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM GOD THIS YEAR? for him to speak when I listen. I am expecting an outpouring of his holy spirit and an enhancer to out prayers.
WHERE HAVE YOU TRAVELLED the farthest: Cape Point South Africa where the Indian ocean crosses with the Atlantic
