Meet The Team
CEO
Pamela Shaw
Pamela Shaw learned faith in action as the daughter of missionary parents. After an early career in education, Pamela pursued an MBA and moved into the business world. With international experience in marketing and charitable initiatives, she operates with a global worldview. Pamela serves on the Boards of Crossroads Christian Communications, the Cardus Institute, Love Justice International, and Presence Creative. She resides in Stoney Creek, Ontario with her husband, Tim, and their dog, Finnegan.
Pamela Shaw
Finance lead
Canna Yang
Canna is passionate about helping people. She has been a part of the OneBook team for over 10 years, where she enjoys serving God with her accounting skills and seeing His great work around the world. Canna graduated from SAIT with an applied degree in Accounting.
Canna
Yang
Program lead/
Prayer coordinator
Lynette Dieleman
Lynette comes to OneBook with experience in project management in Africa. She now enjoys living and working out of multi-ethnic London, ON. Over the years Lynette has been inspired by local communities who trust God and work together to overcome obstacles and achieve project goals.
Lynette Dieleman
adwoa Rascanu
Development Coordinator
Adwoa Rascanu
Adwoa is passionate about seeing people encounter God through Scripture in their heart language. Having experienced reading the Bible in her mother tongue for the first time, she understands firsthand the value of Bible translation. She is proud to support OneBook’s work, which fosters literacy, preserves language and culture, and helps communities discover dignity, belonging, and the transforming hope found in God’s Word.
Mara
Mccallum
Operations Lead
Mara McCallum
Mara was raised in a small, artistic town nestled in the Gatineau Hills of Quebec. Her biggest passion as a young person was theatre. She graduated with a college diploma in Liberal Arts and went on to achieve an undergraduate degree in Psychology. Mara came to Christ recently as an adult and is grateful to work at OneBook, an environment in which she can learn more about the goodness of God every day.
Julia
Friesen
Communications Coordinator
Julia Friesen
Julia is passionate about sharing individual’s stories. She finds it a delight, therefore, to support the OneBook team by sharing with others the transformative work of Bible translation—and the faithfulness of God. Julia has received a degree in English at Tyndale University and lives in Ottawa, Ontario.
Larry
Fjeldstrom
Donor Relations/
Graphic Design
Larry Fjeldstrom
Larry is passionate about building relationships with donors, and especially delights in thanking people for their giving and praying with them. Larry has been a part of the OneBook staff since inception. He currently serves through his skills in graphic arts and being the donor relations coordinator. He also assists in the finance area in various tasks like acknowledgements and receipts.
Meet The Board
Peter Vandenberg
chair
Peter Vandenberg
Peter Vandenberg, owner of Vandenbergs Fine Jewellery in Winnipeg, is a faith-driven entrepreneur passionate about global transformation through literacy and Scripture. As a board member of OneBook, he combines business leadership and community insight to help make God’s Word accessible in every language.
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Blair Clark
Vice Chair and Secretary
Blair Clark
Retired, Blair has served in pastoral ministry in the GTA, spent eight years ministering in Indonesia, and dedicated 24 years to mission leadership. With experience in over 75 countries, he has witnessed firsthand the transformative power of Scripture in people’s heart language for evangelism, discipleship, and church growth.
Shailene Caparas
Treasurer
Shailene Caparas
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.
Alex Mathew
Member
Alex Mathew
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.
JeaNnette
Klekta
Member
Jeannette Klekta
Jeannette is the retired administrator of Church of the Rock and co-founder of Manitoba Administrative Networking. She desires to bring her administrative and charity legal knowledge, as well as her love for missions, to assist Onebook to excel at bringing the gospel to other countries through Bible translation.