Sandy Cathcart

SANDY HAS TRAVELED extensively, fishing the Sea of Ohotsk in Far East Russia, sailing over Lake Baikal in Siberia, cycling the backroads of China, rowing across the rivers of Vietnam, swimming in Israel’s Dead Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, trekking across Peru and Haiti, and hiking across Lantau Island.

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With The Cat Man, she rafts rivers in tahitis, hunts deer and elk, skis cross-country and downhill, canoes marshlands, tracks antelope across the desert, fishes rivers and lakes, sailboards and water skis, climbs mountains, hikes on a daily basis, and just about anything else there is to do in the outdoors.

She grew up on stories of her Cherokee great grandmother who some said was a healer and others said was a witch. Sandy has been comfortable in wilderness since she was seven years old and, even now, her friends lovingly call her an “animal magnet.” Sandy is known as the “Scribe” for Ghostdancer and Restoring The Heart Ministries.

Sarah Elizabeth Farrow

ENCOURAGED BY HER MOTHER, Sarah Elizabeth Farrow’s prayer journey began in childhood. It has taken many twists and turns and even a few side tracks since then, but prayer has guided her throughout her life. Her mother, an English teacher, also encouraged her to start writing when she was still in elementary school and was her first editor.

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Sarah began her adult writing career fresh out of school. First she wrote newspaper fashion copy for a large department store, and later graduated to writing and producing radio and television commercials for an advertising agency. While staying home to raise her four children, Sarah supplemented the household income by writing on prayer for a wide range of magazines and newspapers. Later, she returned to the workplace as a technical writer and executive assistant.

Now retired, Sarah is still writing and praying. She also knits, draws, and enjoys the freedom of a life with few deadlines. She shares her home with three rescued animals, Chevy, a Mexican street dog, Stitch, a Mexican street cat, and Jada, an elderly cat inherited when a family friend passed away, along with John, her husband of 53 years, a son and two grandsons. Life is never dull at the Farrow home in Arvada, Colorado.

Lee Ann Johnson 

AS A MOTHER of three amazing children and grandmother of four, Lee Ann has learned a lot about life. Her children taught her to laugh, that she could survive almost anything, humility (sometimes in tonnage), and how to love even when people are not very lovable.

Her grandchildren are her payback to their parents, and they bring her so much joy and laughter as they remind her that God knew what He was doing when He made parents young!

Lee Ann was raised in and lived in Oregon for most of her life. Although her life goals were to marry Elvis and be Queen of England, she married a cowboy and is now Queen/Office Manager of a dental practice. She is quick to say, “God has such a sense of humor.”

Marleen McDowell

MARLEEN FULFILLS her passion for teaching through children’s Sunday School. She enjoys retirement with her husband, Aaron, at their remote home in the Oregon Cascades. Here, time slows down for homemaking, gardening and exploring the mountains as she continues to “teach” through her writings.

Joy Olender

JOY BEGAN DRAWING and painting after sitting in on her grandchildren’s art lessons. It seemed like such a wonderful thing to mix oil paint and put it on canvas that she has been painting ever since and encouraging others by making opportunities for them to experience the joy of painting and exhibiting artwork through the Collaboration of the Arts.

Jeanne Randall

JEANNE WAS INFLUENCED at an early age by her upbringing in Hawaii.  It was also there that she attended church camp annually, where she embraced a quest to follow Christ and developed an early and deep love for the Bible.  She graduated from Seattle Pacific University and began a career as an elementary school teacher and later a school board member.  After marrying Mark in 1983, and in the midst of raising their 5 children, Jeanne created and published custom collections of Bible Verse sets for Men, Women, Grandparents, Parents, Youth and Children distributing more than 60,000 editions in the Christian marketplace.  She also taught a weekly Good News Club for 12 years. When her husband became disabled in 2000 Jeanne went to work full time at her family’s guest ranch in Southern Oregon where she served as manager and events coordinator for vacationing guests, camps, retreats and weddings.

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During trips to Israel and to France, Jeanne became fascinated with the power of Biblically themed paintings and sculptures to communicate a Biblical worldview and in 2007 founded Masterpiece Christian Fine Arts Foundation to visually communicate Christ to current culture through fine art.

Since then Masterpiece has hosted annual conferences and workshops offering encouragement and training to artists of faith, and traveling Biblically themed exhibits of fine art throughout the West Coast and Southwest where they have served more than 35,000 guests.

Diana Shadley

PASTOR DIANA SHADLEY is affiliated with the Kahnawake Band of Mohawk, First Nations, Quebec, Canada. She became reservation connected when she married Calvin “Buttons” Shadley (Ghostdancer Shadley), a member of the Wasco and Klamath Tribes. They became ministers along with Calvin’s extended family as a ministry team. They offered love, support and encouragement to natives, veterans, elders, and homeless people wherever they went. As she walked the Jesus way, as fully Christian and fully native, Diana submitted herself to the teaching of Calvin’s mother and respected elder, Laura Grabner. Now, Diana teaches as a widow and elder who is received with honor and respect as a valuable part of the family ministry team.

Diana’s message is of how the Creator loves His children and desires to bring His forgiveness, love, reconciliation, and restoration to the wounded warriors who have suffered at the hands of an oppressor. This message is delivered in respect to Native culture with honor and dignity. It teaches and encourages worship of the Creator (Jesus) the way He created each individual, incorporating language, dance, instruments, songs and storytelling.

Diana is one of the team members on Ghostdancer Shadley and Restoring The Heart Ministries. Check out the website of Restoring The heart here.

Ghostdancer Shadley

GHOSTDANCER SHADLEY (Also known as Cal, Buttons and Pahowatush) was a respected elder of the Klamath and Warm Springs tribes of Oregon. It was his desire to leave a legacy of doing the will of God with a focus on reaching out to others with God’s love. He succeeded in that during his lifetime, and now his ministry continues through the written word.

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