Beverly Snyder is the Events Coordinator for Northwestern Book Stores and a full-time personal caregiver. In her spare time she loves to read, travel, play in the kitchen, study the Bible, and talk with friends. Writing interests include fiction for children and adults, and devotionals.

For more than 20 years, Beverly has been involved with Bible Study Fellowship--several years as a children’s leader. She has taught Sunday school for all ages, coordinated Christian education, and taught and coordinated vacation bible school programs. She reads to children on a weekly basis and has also been an assistant scoutmaster for Boy Scouts.

Beverly occasionally leads workshops and speaks at women’s events.

Publications Secretary,

Janelle Huston .

Treasurer Keith Johnson is a self-employed business analyst. He has been a member of MCWG for approximately 11 years. His primary writing interests are poetry and commentaries on social, cultural and political issues from a Christian perspective. He has had several articles published by the Minnesota Christian Chronicle and the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Mary Fran Heitzman has been a member of the Minnesota Christian Writers Guild for seven years and is a certified member of Toastmasters International.

She enjoyes writing essays, poetry, devotionals, and magazine articles. Her work has appeared in Focus on the Family, Toastmaster and ByLine magazines.

She's completed three years of the Jerry B. Jenkins Christian Writers Guild Correspondence Course, five years of Bible Study Fellowship, and has co-facilitated Faith Interaction classes at St. Michael's Lutheran Church in Bloomington for two years. Her first book, "Starting From Scratch When You're Single Again," was co-authored with Sharon M. Knudson and released in September 2008.

Pat van der Merwe has been a member of MCWG for more than ten years. She and her husband, Derek recently retired from New Life Christian Center, the church they founded in the early nineties, so they can spend more time in South Africa, and Pat can focus on her writing. She write’s mostly non-fiction, and has recently published in Pray Magazine. She is currently writing a book on meditations of a prodigal’s mother, a topic close to her heart. Pat also enjoys speaking to women’s groups.