Ryan is the Lead Pastor of Sequoia Church. His past experience includes the Canadian National Director of Athletes in Action. Ryan has a passion to see the church in our cities connected and cooperating together for the growth of God’s Kingdom.

Growing up in a small town near Woodstock, Ontario, Ryan played competitive hockey and later went on to play varsity hockey at Carleton University. Today he finds his competitive outlet through obstacle course racing, recently competing in the Spartan World Championships. He also enjoys working with his hands-on carpentry projects and has been known to occasionally show his artistic side with a paintbrush and canvas. Ryan is a lifelong learner and he completed his Master’s degree at Wheaton College in 2009. His authenticity as well as his natural leadership and teaching ability enable him to lead Sequoia with purpose and integrity. A committed family man, Ryan loves to pour his spare time into his wife, Vanessa, and their two adult children, Rebekah and Joshua.

Jan Kupecz serves as the Executive Director of CNCF. She was involved with the start-up of CNCF as far back as 2002 and has been instrumental in navigating the development of CNCF as it grew and subsequently launched several other ministries, including Financial Discipleship Canada, Kingdom Advisors Canada, Compass-finances God’s way-Canada, ADVISORS with Purpose and notmine.ca.

In the past, Jan was COO for a business law firm as well as a national financial planning firm. She is passionate about her faith, enjoys the challenge of leadership and motivating God’s people to live lives wholly surrendered to HIM.

Jan and her husband Joe make their home near Ottawa, are active in their local church and enjoy family time with their adult children and half a dozen grandchildren.

Combining her communications background with her Christian faith, Barb has served faithfully on the OWM Board for a number of years. As a self-employed media operations and communications consultant, she has advised many of the leading sport organizations and associations in Canada, as well as corporate clients. Originally studying broadcasting with a goal to being a sportscaster, Barb realized a lifelong dream of working at an Olympics in 2002 and has since worked at several Olympic Games, including being part of a broadcast team, as well as Pan American Games, Asian Games and European Championships! She is now respected worldwide for managing media operations at large sporting events. Her experience covers +20 different sports at the Olympic, World Championships or Major Games level, working in North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Caribbean.

She has also been an advisor to the Christian community in Ottawa, assisting with mainstream media coverage, beginning with the Billy Graham Mission in Ottawa and continuing to this day. Before serving on the OWM Board, she established the communications program for the Ministry as a consultant.

An active leader in her own church community, she has a heart to see Christians serving their community in tangible ways and effectively communicating the love of Jesus to all those around them.

Brent is the co-founder and managing partner of CrossPoint Financial. He is passionate about helping people discover the purpose, or as he often refers to, the “why” for their money. Brent got his start in the late 1990s when he became a licensed advisor while completing his studies at the University of Ottawa business school (B.Comm, Finance). It was there that Brent realized his passion for helping others was deeply rooted within him and he went on to become a licensed discretionary Portfolio Manager. Brent holds a CIM® designation and is a Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute (FCSI®).

As a businessperson, Brent is excited about One Way Ministries and how its platform allows for scaling resources across many charities and for the vision of bringing love to everyone in Ottawa.

Brent and his wife Lisa are kept very busy with their family of four children. In whatever spare time there is, Brent enjoys running/triathlon, swimming, is a connoisseur of great food, and tries to serve the greater good by actively contributing to their local church and charities.

Bron is semi-retired, at least that is what he likes to call it, after three decades in public accounting and then moving on to launch a consulting firm in Ottawa. Currently, Bron is doing ministry work with More Than Enough Financial Services through coaching and helping people navigate their world of finance. That invariably means dealing with the tax system and all that goes with it.

Bron is ecstatic to be part of the One Way team and its story. He loves being involved in all OWM has done for the City of Ottawa and the surrounding area as it supports ministries and churches coming together in a positive way to spread the Good News!

He continues to serve on boards of national and local organizations. His two passions are baseball and helping people reach their full potential, including his children. Bron also wants to share his joy of the Lord with the world and loves listening to worship music throughout the day.