Meet The BOARD
Thomas Janzen
Chair
Thomas is a mechanical engineer focusing on agriculture and manufacturing. A willingness to serve leads him to be passionate about seeing the Word of the Lord spread throughout the nations and Christ’s name proclaimed to all.
deborah olthof
Secretary/Vice Chair
Deborah is a lawyer with a general solicitors practice in Leduc, Alberta. She is enthusiastic about the promotion of literacy and equipping local believers in the Church.
Timothy Baribeau
Treasurer
Retired, Tim was a co-founder of a successful online Healthcare Education Software company. He has been actively involved in local church leadership since 1983 and is passionate about the Scriptures and seeing them distributed to all people groups.
Shailene Caparas
Member
Shailene is a CPA with an accounting firm serving churches and other charities. Compelled by the love of Christ and passion for spreading the Gospel, she founded a charity to support Christian ministries in the Philippines and Honduras.
Brenda Wiebe
Member
Brenda is a recently retired teacher/vice principal. She spent 28 years in Christian Education and enjoyed working with many ethnic groups in that setting. Along with her lifelong involvement in missions at her local church, she is passionate about the Word of God getting out to all nations.
Alex MAthew
Member
With over 30 years of involvement in the Bible translation movement, Alex currently serves as the Director for Oral Bible translation (OBT) with Faith Comes By Hearing. Alex is passionate about building capacity in oral language communities to translate God’s word in a medium they can use in their daily lives.