Leadership Team
Managing Director
Denise Rumble is a freelance writer whose column, “Just Thinking,” has appeared in five publications. She also has written articles, book reviews, sports write-ups, as well as an education column when she was a Board of Education trustee. Now that her children are grown, Denise is able to devote more time to her writing and speaking. Before taking this job with The Word Guild, Denise operated her own bookkeeping business for 11 years. Denise has a blog called “Just a Word” where she writes as Managing Director of The Word Guild, as well as personal blog, “Midlife Odyssey.” |
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Awards Coordinator
Jane Twohey attended her first Write! Canada conference in 2003. An avid reader, Jane came home with many books and resources for writing. Within the year, Jane became a member of The Word Guild and in 2004 was hired as the administrator of The Word Guild. In September 2006, she was promoted to Projects Coordinator, managing Write! Canada 2007 and 2008, and TWG’s three writing contests. An Economics graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University, Jane built her career in the software industry. Having an entrepreneurial spirit, Jane started up the Canadian subsidiaries of various U.S computer companies. God changed Jane’s life through the Alpha Program and she then turned her entrepreneurial spirit to ministry. For five years, Jane promoted the Alpha program in her community and today many of the local churches are running Alpha. A professional photographer, Jane also combines her creativity with her love of the word and has created a funky Christian merchandise line under the company name, gofishredink. |
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Administrative Assistant
Bingley Distributors sponsored the song lyrics category of The Canadian Christian Writing Awards for three years. Judy has over thirty years of business and management experience. Her expertise includes tracking products from design to manufacture to final delivery to retail stores, coordinating seminars for owners/managers and salespeople, organizing annual trade shows and technical writing for product catalogues. |
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Prayer Team Coordinator
Janet Sketchley is a Canadian writer whose passion is fiction (Christian women’s suspense). Her unpublished novel, Praying for the Enemy, was short-listed for the 2008 Best New Canadian Christian Author Award. Janet also writes weekly book reviews and devotionals at her blog, God With Us: Finding Joy, and a quarterly fiction column in FellowScript. Janet has been the Prayer Team Lead for The Word Guild for a number of years. |
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Communications Team Lead
Neil Bramble, a professional member, served as editor of The Canadian Gideon for the past 17 years. Neil comes from a background of teaching—high school English and history—having spent 16 years in that profession. He was a staff member of The Gideons from 1981 until his retirement in December 2008. A writer and speaker, Neil is also an Alpha advisor and leads the Alpha course in his church in Guelph, ON. “I am impressed with the spiritual depth and godly vision of The Word Guild and enthusiastically support its mission,” he says. “Canadians need to hear the message God has for them and we as Christian writers have a responsibility to communicate it. I want to be part of that.” |
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Volunteer Coordinator
Kimberley Payne is the author of Where Family Meets Faith, Where Fitness Meets Faith and Where Life Meets Faith. These three volumes are collections of Kimberley’s “Today’s Faith” devotional columns that relate raising a family, pursuing a healthy lifestyle, and everyday experiences to building a relationship with God. She also is author of the Fit for Faith Health Series, and a speaker offering workshops based on this series She is a professional member of The Word Guild, and a member of the Leadership Team. Kimberley completed the certificate program in volunteer management in 2007 from Fleming College, where she also has taught accounting. |
Judy Bingley has been a member of The Word Guild since February, 2003. She quickly joined The Prayer Team, and in 2005 served as one of the coordinators of the Write! Canada conference.
