Joy Equipping Ministries
N. J. and Les are long-time Christians with over 35 years of lay leadership and church-planting experience. Their mission is to make disciples, and they have been doing their best to obey in many ways. They have been involved in church leadership, leading small groups (Bible Study, Growth Groups, Navigators 2:7, and cell groups) as well as 1:1 and 1:4 discipling.
Besides having university degrees, they have been educated through courses at Providence College, and with Larry Crabb, Freedom in Christ Ministries, Ellel Ministries, Touch Outreach Ministries, Dove Christian Fellowship International, etc.
Thye have been married for 33 years, and are the parents of four adult sons.
Les has been with IBM for 31 years. He is currently a Business Transformation Consultant. For the last eight years, he’s been a member of a world-wide team given the task of improving IBM’s Customer Relationship Management (CRM). He is currently CRM Deployment Leader for Field Sales for the Americas.
N. J. is an author, speaker, and teacher as well as the executive director of The Word Guild, an association for Canadian writers and editors who are Christian. A former high school teacher and homeschooler, she has 9 books and one play in print as well as many articles and stories. She speaks regularly and has recently written two regular columns:"The Inside Story," profiling Canadian Christian authors for ChristianWeek and "Celebrating Canadian Authors" for Maranatha News.
Originally from the Canadian prairies, Les and Nancy have lived in the Toronto area since 1980.
