Our Teams
Meet Our Teams
Mark Peterkins
Executive Director
Mark’s passion is to see Jesus become more famous in Ottawa as the church loves each other deeply, working in unity and trust together for the good of the city.
Janice Davey
Events Coordinator / EA
One of Janice’s strengths is organization. She tends to be the one who organizes many of the OWM events, or at least lends support to others who take on a particular event. Janice also enjoys working with our Executive Director in helping to keep him on schedule as much as possible.
Born and raised in Ottawa, Janice loves the idea of being part of a team whose mission it is to “Reach the City by Serving the Leaders”. She finds it very rewarding to know that these efforts will bring positive and Godly change to our region.
Outside of the office, Janice loves music ministry and is involved in her local church by serving on the worship team. She also enjoys hiking and scenic drives in her little sports car.
Janice is married to Paul and together they have three grown sons, three lovely daughters-in-law and several beautiful grandchildren, all of whom Janice loves dearly.
Arlene Borg
Ministry Coordinator
Arlene loves Jesus and is passionate about following after Him. Having been blessed by Him, she desires to be a blessing to others. As One Way Ministries exists to serve the leaders of the city, she loves being part of the team.
One of Arlene’s personal mottos is from Colossians 3:23-34. “Whatever the Lord gives her hand to do, to do it as unto the Lord and not for men…for she is serving the Lord Christ in her work.”
Arlene co-pastors a church with her husband, Ray, and loves being mother to her daughter, son-in-law and son as well as being Nana to her two precious grandchildren. Arlene loves to read, hang out with her family and friends, hike in the nature trails behind her house and enjoys taking pictures.
Gabe McReynolds
Love Ottawa Lead
Gabe has had a passion for the Gospel since he first came to know the Lord as a university student. This passion led him to North Africa as a missionary for 12 years.
Richard Long
Pastoral Engagement
Richard comes to One Way Ministries with over 30 years of experience in city-wide movements in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) and Hamilton. Under his national ministry hat – Together Canada, he has been coaching and resourcing city-church efforts from coast to coast in Canada.
Sarah Jackson
Pray Ottawa Lead
Sarah Jackson joined us in 2014 to give leadership to Pray Ottawa. She is a native of Ottawa and has been involved in various prayer initiatives over many years, including leadership for the prayer ministry in her local congregation – Chapel Ridge Free Methodist Church.
Johann van der Merwe
Workplace Network Co-Lead
An incredibly important mission field, Johann's ministry is within the workplace. He strongly believes that every interaction we have, every relationship we build and every decision we make presents an opportunity to be God's hands and feet and heart.
Through the Workplace Network, he clearly communicates and demonstrates that Christians-in-the-workplace can find a place to connect, develop relationships with, and learn from other Christians who share a similar vision.
Johann is also part of the City-on-our-Knees team.
An immigrant from The Netherlands and before that from South Africa, Johann is married to Renée and father of Calvin, Nina, Milou and Bastian.
Doug Sprunt
Workplace Network Co-Lead
Doug Sprunt’s passion is to help workplace leaders, ministry heads and pastors walk out the uniqueness of their gifts and calling as they grow in their relationship with God.
Doug loves helping people grow deeper in their walk with God as well as live to the fullest in who they are with the gifting they have been given by Him. Doug engages with them through retreats, times of prayer, teaching, meetings with other leaders or with simple words of encouragement.
Doug has been heard to say that these days are by far the richest days of his life!
Tracy Peterkins
Ministry Wives Lead
Tracy’s desire is to live the “ordinary” life well. She walks alongside the women involved with Ministry Wives to encourage and support them in their unique lives.
Jennifer Dyck
Accountant
As the One Way Ministries’s accountant, Jennifer is committed to serve and help ensure financial integrity within our diverse number of teams, programs, events, donors and staff’s needs.
When she’s not crunching numbers, Jennifer finds great joy at watching her boys play sports and coaching the girls high school soccer team at ADHS. She loves to garden, design and decorate spaces and is always up for a game of soccer with her teammates.
Kent Wun
Technical Staff
Kent's passion and joy is serving Kingdom leaders through the use of technology to enrich communication and relationships as one body. He is always amazed at the openness of One Way Ministries to try out new ways of connecting with leaders in our city.
Initially the administrator for Mission Ottawa-Outaouais (now Love Ottawa), Kent has been part of One Way Ministries for over eighteen years Previously, he had a career as an engineer, project manager, and product manager in the high technology sector. He has been involved with many of OWM’s initiatives and teams including the Administrator and Tech Team Lead for Souly Business Canada and a group Co-Leader for Nextlevel Ministries. Over the years, with the help of OWM, Kent has operated his own technology consulting business with a focus on serving ministry and church organizations.
Kent is actively involved at his local church where he serves on the leadership team, as a Sunday school teacher, the tech team, and as the IT administrator.
One of Kent’s favourite verses is Colossians 3:23 — “Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.”
Kent is married to Seanna, also an engineer, and has two adult daughters who are studying engineering. When Kent is not behind a computer screen, you can find him reading a good book or shooting arrows with his Olympic recurve bow.
Johann van der Merwe
An incredibly important mission field, Johann's ministry is within the workplace. He strongly believes that every interaction we have, every relationship we build and every decision we make presents an opportunity to be God's hands and feet and heart.
Through the Workplace Network, he clearly communicates and demonstrates that Christians-in-the-workplace can find a place to connect, develop relationships with, and learn from other Christians who share a similar vision.
Johann is also part of the City-on-our-Knees team.
An immigrant from The Netherlands and before that from South Africa, Johann is married to Renée and father of Calvin, Nina, Milou and Bastian.
Doug Sprunt
Doug Sprunt’s passion is to help workplace leaders, ministry heads and pastors walk out the uniqueness of their gifts and calling as they grow in their relationship with God.
Doug loves helping people grow deeper in their walk with God as well as live to the fullest in who they are with the gifting they have been given by Him. Doug engages with them through retreats, times of prayer, teaching, meetings with other leaders or with simple words of encouragement.
Doug has been heard to say that these days are by far the richest days of his life!
Jennifer Parr
Jennifer is passionate about working with leaders who yearn to live today what they want to be remembered for tomorrow. She is skilled at helping leaders lock eyes with God to reflect and take stock, look forward and dream, and develop the insights required to transform their legacy from “success” to “significance”.
Married to a successful entrepreneur (Paul), she is the proud mother of one son, Scott. Jennifer loves being outdoors enjoying God’s creation in all four seasons. You can find her skiing or skating in the winter and cycling or paddle boarding in the summer.
Gabe McReynolds
Gabe has had a passion for the Gospel since he first came to know the Lord as a university student. This passion led him to North Africa as a missionary for 12 years.
Richard Long
OWM Pastoral Engagement
Richard comes to Love Ottawa with 30 years of experience in city-wide movements in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) and Hamilton. Under his national ministry – Together Canada, he has been coaching and resourcing city-church efforts from coast to coast in Canada.
Sarah Jackson
Sarah Jackson joined us in 2014 to give leadership to Pray Ottawa. She is a native of Ottawa and has been involved in various prayer initiatives over many years, including leadership for the prayer ministry in her local congregation – Chapel Ridge Free Methodist Church.
Sarah Jackson
Pray Ottawa Lead
As the Pray Ottawa Lead, with the goal of a prayer-saturated city, Sarah captains a team who prayerfully encourage, network and inform prayer leaders and pastors.
Sarah is Ottawa born and raised, met Jesus in her twenties, and loves her home church, Chapel Ridge Free Methodist, in South Kanata. In her passionate, young-love days with Jesus, she asked him to “take her by the hand and lead her where she needs to go.” So far, He has led her to: lead Pray Ottawa; heal her inner being from perfectionism; live a celibate lifestyle full of amazing friends and family; switch to Apple.
Helen DeSchiffart
After a few years of being a prayer partner for One Way Ministries' wider ministry, Helen joined the Pray Ottawa Team in 2018
Helen has held many leadership positions in her church community over those years and is currently one of the prayer coordinators in her home church - Barrhaven Fellowship.
She has a passion for encouraging and praying alongside prayer leaders and is excited by how the Lord is at work in our city.
Robert (Bob) Douglas
Bob is keen on Christians praying together for God to move powerfully in our city and nation. He has been involved for several years in “City on our Knees”: an annual, city-wide, week-long prayer initiative for the city of Ottawa.
A Carleton University graduate, he was a journalist for 18 years and a public relations officer in the federal government for 20 years. He retired in 2002.
Bob married Ruth Pitman in 1965 and they have three children and eight grandchildren.
Peter Hartgerink
Peter has had a growing hunger to know God better since surrendering his life to Jesus at age 34. He loves to spend time in the secret place (or sheltering presence) of the Most High and treasures the things the Spirit reveals in times of intimacy (Psalm 91:1, Psalm 27:5).
Peter is a devoted husband, father and grandfather.
Ingrid Laroque
Ingrid has lived, worked and raised her family in Ottawa for over 30 years. She makes her home in Barrhaven with her husband Mike.
She has sought to serve Jesus by actively supporting several ministries at her local church - Woodvale and various para-church organizations.
The Lord has been gently and kindly schooling her since.
Her participation on the Pray Ottawa team is fuelled by the desire to encourage every believer in Ottawa to respond (in some way) to this call: “My heart has heard you say, ‘Come and talk with me.’ And my heart responds, ‘Lord, I am coming’”.
Richard Long
Richard Long comes to us with over 30 years of experience in city-wide movements in the GTA (Greater Toronto Area), Hamilton, and Ottawa. Richard initially came to Ottawa to serve as the Associate Director at the National House of Prayer where he ministered for 5 years.
He and his wife Terry are Lead Elders at Vineyard Church here in Ottawa.
Their daughter and son-in-law also live in Ottawa, and, together with their young grandson, they are a source of great joy.
OWM Board of Directors
Ryan Dawson
Lead Pastor, Sequoia Community Church
Jan Kupecz
Executive Director, CNCF / Financial Discipleship
Barb MacDonald
Communications and Media Consultant
Brent Vandermeer
Co-Founder, CrossPoint Financial
Bron Vasic
Financial Coach, More Than Enough
Ryan Dawson
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
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.
Barb MacDonald
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 Vandermeer
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 Vasic
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.
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