2009-2010 Annual Report

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the Board for the past year. Janice also serves on Redeemer’s Ombudsman Review Committee. She retired from the Royal Bank in Burlington as the Manager of Client Care. She has been the Trustee for New Brunswick Theological Seminary from 2000-07. She has also been a Sunday School teacher and superintendent and the Women’s Group President. Janice and her husband Albert have three adult children and are members of Westdale Reformed Church. Bonnie Moore has obtained a B.A. from the University of Windsor, a B.Ed. of English, Theatre Arts from the University of Western Ontario, and a M.Ed. in Curriculum Design from the University of Toronto. She is currently taking M.Th. courses at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto (CrossCultural Christianity, Teaching the Faith). Bonnie has served on a variety of committees for church and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and led a short-term mission to Costa Rica. She has taught English as a Second Language to elementary teachers in Rwanda and has taught English and Theatre Arts for 25 years with the Toronto District School Board. Bonnie has directed and produced many theatre productions and led planning teams for school and board projects. She has run workshops and seminars for other educational/Christian organizations. She and her husband David Kloosterman attend Little Trinity Anglican Church Shirley Vandenberg has obtained an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree from McMaster University and a Certified General Accountant designation. Shirley is currently working as an accountant and is the manager of accounting and budgets for the Vineland Research & Innovation Centre. In

the past she served for six years as the Canadian Treasurer on the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee Board. She is the current chair of Fruitland Christian Reformed Church’s diaconate. Shirley and her husband Gerry have two children.

NOMINEE FOR SENATE

Dr. Daniel Machiela, a member of the Christian Reformed Church, joined the faculty of Religious Studies at McMaster University in 2008, and brings with him a vibrant interest and expertise in the interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures during the Late Biblical and Second Temple periods, Semitic languages and philology, Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish Pseudepigrapha, Aramaic Targum, Septuagint, and the geographic, historical, and social dimensions of the early Jewish era generally. His recent work has focused on the Genesis Apocryphon (1Q20) from Qumran Cave 1, which has included a new text edition and translation of the scroll, along with a detailed study of its geographic portions in relation to the Book of Jubilees. This was published in fall, 2009, by E. J. Brill in their Studies in the Texts of the Desert of Judah series (volume 79). Dan has several other projects underway, including: an examination of Qumran Aramaic in the context of other Aramaic dialects, a handbook of early Jewish scriptural interpretation, and a more general introduction to the world of Second Temple period Judaism. Side interests are the reception of the Deuteronomistic theological framework in later thought (both Jewish and Christian), and the Gospel of Luke’s special source, “L.”

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