national team

MEET OUR National Team

One Hope Canada’s national team provides essential support to camps and community ministries, develops resources, and shares the mission’s story, purpose and vision with supporters across the country.

Bill McCaskell
National Director

After living most of his adult life in Manitoba, Bill McCaskell moved back to Saskatchewan in 2019, returning to the province where he grew up. He joined One Hope Canada (Canadian Sunday School Mission at the time) in 2010 as Manitoba Field Director.

In 2012, Bill and his wife Bev began serving as the mission’s National Director team. In 2019 Bev stepped down from the role. Bill continues to serve as National Director, leading a great team of more than 150 missionaries from across the country as they reach more than 30,000 children and youth each year with the hope of Gospel.

Previous to his ministry with One Hope Canada, Bill was a pastor and entrepreneur. Bill and Bev are the happy parents of two sons, two daughters-in-law, and grandparents to four grandsons.

FIELD DIRECTORS

Rob Hasenbank
British Columbia Field Director

Rob started out with One Hope Canada as a camper at Ness Lake Bible Camp in Prince George, BC. He spent many summers attending camp at both Ness Lake and Echo Lake Bible Camp. Later he worked at Ness Lake as a Cabin Leader and Adventure Camp Director.

While attending school at Taylor University College in Edmonton, AB, Rob spent a summer working as the Leader In Training Director at Green Bay Bible Camp. After graduating from Taylor with a BA in Religion and Theology, Rob married his amazing wife Kathryn. Together they moved to Keats Island to serve for two years as the Property Manager for Keats Camps. 

After this, they moved to the Okanagan to once again work with One Hope Canada as the Camp Director at Maple Springs Bible Camp for 10 years. Following his time as director, Rob spent five years serving on the Board of Directors for Maple Springs while building a homestead with his family in Trinity Valley, BC.

Dan Screpnek
Alberta Field Director

Dan and Wanda Screpnek have been serving with One Hope Canada as full-time missionaries since 2016. Their first role was with the Encounter School of Discipleship as team leaders and then with Manitou Lake Bible Camp where Dan served as Director of Discipleship and Maintenance and Wanda served in Administration and Guest Services.  

Before joining One Hope Canada, Dan and Wanda served with SIM, 10 years in Nigeria as dorm parents and 9 years in Canada doing member care and recruitment. 

Dan and Wanda currently live in Sexsmith, Alberta. They have three adult children and four grandchildren. 

Terry Kerr
Saskatchewan Field Director / Lead Field Director

Terry and Bonnie became involved in camp ministry in the mid 90s as volunteers for Kenosee Lake Bible Camp in southeast Saskatchewan. After a few years, Terry joined the camp board, eventually becoming the board chair. In 2011, he started full-time as the Saskatchewan field director for One Hope Canada.

Before joining the mission full-time Terry worked four years for a major oil company and 17 years before that as a police officer. Terry and Bonnie enjoy spending family time with their adult children and have entered into the next phase of life of becoming grandparents. Bonnie works with special needs children in the public school system and travels with Terry during the summer, playing a major role in their ministry.

SETH BRIGGS
Saskatchewan Field Director

Bio coming soon. 

Stephen Johnson
Manitoba / Ontario Field Director

After graduating from Ontario Bible College with a bachelor of theology in pastoral ministry, Stephen spent 13 years in business, 10 years as a lead solo pastor, ordained with the Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches, and five years as a director with Focus on the Family Canada.

Stephen and Beverly, have four adult children and three grandchildren. When not travelling to ministry points, Stephen pastors a house church. Stephen and Bev enjoy being empty nesters but are blessed with frequent visits by their children.

Jean-Sébastien Morin
Quebec Director

Jean-Sébastien is a French Canadian author, pastor and seminary lecturer (mainly in Biblical Studies, Systematic Theology and Church History). It was at camp where Jean-Sébastien got serious with God at 15 years-old. He had the best time of his life in IVCF camps, met his wife at a summer camp and together they served for few years as camp directors.

Jean-Sébastien and Katie went on a camp hiatus for awhile, as they started their own “camp” at home: they are the happy parents of four young kids. Now with One Hope Canada, they are back in the camp business!

Jean-Sébastien and Katie also have the mandate to create French resources to help  francophone churches and camps to evangelize and disciple kids and teenagers.  As francophones children are one of the least reached group in North America, Jean-Sébastien and Katie quickly embraced One Hope Canada’s mission of presenting the Gospel to those having the least opportunity to hear of Christ. 

Cory Vail
Atlantic FIELD Director

Cory first served at a One Hope Canada Camp in the summer of 2005 after his roommate invited him to come “out west” to work at Camp Silversides. Several years later he was reintroduced to the ministry in Atlantic Canada when he was invited to speak at a One Hope Canada camp. 

As the Regional Director for Awana in Atlantic Canada Cory spent several years working with and developing a partnership between Awana and One Hope Canada. Then in 2022 he joined the One Hope Canada family as the Atlantic Field Director. 

Cory graduated from Atlantic Baptist University with a BA in Biblical Studies and a Certificate in Youth Leadership. He is married to Emily and they homeschool their six sons in rural New Brunswick.

MARKETING & DONOR DEVELOPMENT

Kelly Rempel
Director of Marketing & DONOR RELATIONS

Kelly’s passion is to see children, youth, and families get to know Jesus in a personal way as they discover what it means to live out their faith in the every-day world. In her role as Director of Marketing & Donor Relations, she invites others into the ongoing story of God’s work in and through the ministry and mission of One Hope Canada. 

A journalist by training, Kelly’s background includes two decades as a writer, photographer and editor, as well as experience leading family ministry programming in a church setting. She has been married to Kenneth since 2003 and they parent two awesome teenagers in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Lorna Kroeker
GRAPHIC DESIGN & MARKETING ASSISTANT

Lorna joined the One Hope Canada team in June 2021. She serves as the Marketing Assistant (specializing in graphic design) at the Ministry Resource Centre.

Lorna lives in Winnipeg with her husband Merle and three children. She is active in her church and community where she has had many opportunities to develop her gifts. She has many fond memories of her time at Gimli Bible Camp, both as a camper and as a cabin leader. 

Melissa Unger
National Events Coordinator
Melissa joined the One Hope Canada family in early 2024. Her early experience includes assisting with events at Spruce Meadows equestrian facility outside Calgary, Alberta, as well as working for the CEO of the ATCO Group. Upon returning to Canada after thirteen years in Texas, she worked in Sponsorship and Marketing for Curling Canada, and then in property management for eight years.
 
Melissa and her husband Menno reside in the Steinbach area and enjoy hosting their three adult daughters who work in Winnipeg and Vancouver. Their weekends include cycling, exploring rural Manitoba and evenings with their “Bonfire Buds.”
 
After years in the corporate world, Melissa is thrilled to be bringing her experience to a ministry-related role where she can make a way for children and youth to attend camp and get to know Jesus!
Harold Giesbrecht
Radio Promotions Coordinator

Harold’s first encounter with Canadian Sunday School Mission (now One Hope Canada) was in the mid-80s when he served as a Vacation Bible School teacher and camp counselor at Gimli Bible Camp and Turtle Mountain Bible Camp.  In 1989, he had a taste of pastoral life when he served as the Summer Youth Worker at Glenboro Bible Chapel, a ministry started by CSSM. Roseau River Bible Camp was started shortly after that and Harold had the privilege of serving as their first Assistant/Program Director on their new site in the summer of 1993. 

After gaining valuable experience in other camps and missionary experience in Jamaica, Mexico, the Southern USA and Ukraine, an exciting door opened in 1999, when Harold joined the mission full time as the Public Relations/Development Coordinator. The current primary focus of his work is radio promotions.

Natalie, who served at Camp Livingstone in Quebec, joined Harold in marriage and ministry in 2008, and their daughter, Evangeline Hannah Doralyn, was born in April 2021.

DIGITAL MINISTRY

Josh Woodcock
FaithSpark Director
Josh serves as the FaithSpark Director for One Hope Canada and mainly oversees the day-to-day operations of the FaithSpark app. He is constantly looking to the future to see where One Hope Canada can help the Gospel thrive in a digital space.
 
Josh lives in Oromocto, New Brunswick with his wife Melissa and their golden retriever, Banjo. He attained his Bachelor of Religious Education in 2019 at Emmanuel Bible College, majoring in Youth and Family Ministry and minoring in Leadership and Counselling. Feeling his time of learning was not finished, he then continued on to achieve his Master of Theological Studies from the University of Waterloo in 2022.
JARED KLASSEN
FaithSpark Developer
Jared serves as a software developer for One Hope Canada, working on developing and maintaining
the FaithSpark app.

He has lived in the Prairies his whole life, along with his wife, Chantel, and their two children. Jared
also serves as a pastor and is passionate about seeing Gospel-centred churches planted across
Canada.

FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION

Pete Stenstrom
Senior Director of Finance and Administration

Pete has served with One Hope Canada for a number of years, including four summers as camp director at Cape Breton Bible Camp, and several years as the Field Director for BC and Alberta. Currently he serves as the Senior Director of Finance and Administration.

Pete spent most of his formative years overseas in Kenya as a “missionary kid”. Before joining One Hope Canada, he was a forest firefighter as part of a specialized “rappel” program with the Alberta government, community services/recreation director for the Town of Rimbey, and a missionary with AIM in Kenya. He currently resides in Three Hills, Alberta with his wife Ashley and their three quickly growing boys.

Melanie Mushaluk
Director of Administration and Human Resources

Melanie began working with One Hope Canada in 2012. She grew up attending summer camp at Carberry Bible Camp, a ministry of CSSM (now One Hope Canada), and then as a youth became involved in children’s ministry herself. She has more than 30 years experience serving in a variety of children’s ministry settings, including day camps, VBS, Sunday school and youth groups.

Beatriz Gonzalez
Administrative Assistant
Beatriz met Christ at a Nova Scotia Bible camp when she first visited Canada in 1994. Along with her husband Oscar Felipe and their two teenagers, she served with Christian ministries in Colombia and Mexico, especially supporting child, youth, and family groups.
 
The family moved to Winnipeg in 2022, and Beatriz joined One Hope Canada in February 2023 as the administrative assistant  at the Ministry Resource Center. She has a certificate in Business Management and Leadership from The University of Winnipeg and enjoys sharing her experience on social projects to serve in community and ministry settings. 
Roland McQuade
Director of Credentialing and Frontline Resources

Roland, with his wife Marilyn, has served as a full-time missionary with One Hope Canada since 1995. He has filled a wide variety of roles from Bible Camp Director to BC Field Director. For 20 years he directed a mobile day camp outreach to BC’s unreached communities, serving with Marilyn and their three children, Sarah, Melissa, and James.

Presently, Roland serves on the Ministry Resource Centre Support Team, overseeing the Online Training Centre, providing training to our summer missionaries and overseeing our new full-time missionaries in our credentialing program. Roland also creates teaching videos for all our missionaries and serves as a Bible camp chapel speaker.

Marianne Germain
Translator

A native Quebecer, Marianne first volunteered as a cabin leader at Camp Livingstone in Quebec in 2011. She joined the ministry team there full-time in 2016 and transitioned to her role as a translator for the Ministry Resource Center in November 2021. She loves languages, translation, and communications. She also has a heart for the French people of Canada, and utilizes those skills and interests to make training and other materials accessible to them.

Judy Eisbrenner
Finance Team Leader

Judy’s journey with One Hope Canada began in 2005-06 when she began doing the bookkeeping duties for Turtle Mountain Bible Camp, a One Hope Canada camp in southwestern Manitoba. That was the beginning of other connections with the mission which led to her husband, Wayne, becoming Manitoba Field Director in 2011.

This brought Judy and Wayne back to Winnipeg where she was asked to “help out with the bookkeeping for the National Office.” Now, a number of years later, she is the Finance Team Leader for the entire mission. This role entails all things financial and has recently included the insurance aspect of the mission.

Judy and Wayne have three sons, three daughters-in-law and nine grandchildren, living in Manitoba and Alberta. Judy and Wayne currently live in Manitoba, with ‘home’ being Alberta, while they cheer for the Saskatchewan RoughRiders.

Leslie Milton
Finance Team

Leslie serves with the financial team for One Hope Canada, entering daily credit card and pre-authorized debit transactions. She also works part time as a bookkeeper for Roseau River Bible Camp. 

Leslie is married to Andrew, who also works at Roseau River Bible Camp. They have three wonderful kids, three dogs, various chickens, two cows and many, many pigs!

Tasha Dyni
Finance Team

Tasha has been associated with the mission since she was 11 years old. Her relationship with Jesus began as a camper at Galilean Bible Camp in Ontario. Her faith grew as she served at camp for 12 summers and then 11 years full-time as Camp Registrar and Office Administrator.

Tasha joined the Ontario Field Office in Sault Ste. Marie in 2011 and became part of the Ministry Resource Centre Team in 2014. Tasha happily works behind the scenes on payroll for full-time and summer missionaries as well as bookkeeping for One Hope International.