Our Staff & Leadership

Executive Director, Canada

Guy & Geni Shields

Guy Shields is the incoming Executive Director for Village Missions Canada. He is responsible for directing the mission’s affairs under the guidance of the Canadian Board. In addition, Guy and Geni will raise awareness of the mission and the needs and speak to potential donors. Guy and Geni joined Village Missions in 1996. They served on three fields in the US: Young, Arizona, Grants Pass, Oregon, and Sunnyside, Oregon. In 2024, they followed the Lord’s leading to serve as Executive Director of VM Canada. Their role in Village Missions began much earlier, however. Guy’s parents were Village Missionaries in Canada. Geni’s parents were Village Missionaries in the United States. We invite you to partner with them and Village Missions Canada to develop spiritually thriving churches through your prayers, encouragement and financial gifts.

Admin & Office Support

Eleanor Tracey

Eleanor Tracey is the Office Administrator and Connections Coordinator based in Mission, British Columbia. She had been doing the bookkeeping for Village Missions prior to taking on this role. Eleanor and her husband, Arnold, have also served as Village Missionaries since 1984. Eleanor and Arnold are now overseeing the Connections program in Canada. Eleanor enjoys the administrative, financial and bookkeeping tasks, but the office-related interactions with missionaries and ministry partners is the part that she especially enjoys.

District Rep, Prairie Provinces

Gordon & Val Rowland

Gordon & Val became District Representatives in 2019. Their district includes Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and northwestern Ontario. They have been involved with Village Missions since 1979, having served five different churches as missionary-pastor in Alberta and Saskatchewan, prior to being asked to move into their current role.

Their ministry involves traveling to their fields regularly to come alongside the missionaries to encourage and strengthen them and their churches. Their goal is to see them be effective in their efforts to impact the communities they serve in the rural areas of Canada.
Their greatest joy in this role as District Representatives is seeing the different ways the missionaries use their unique gifts to reach into their community with the gospel of Christ.

District Rep, East & West District

Wayne & Joy Deneault

Wayne and Joy joined VM in 2005 and served three fields in Ontario, British Columbia, and Alberta.  They started their work as District Representatives in 2024.

Chief Financial Officer: Canada

Danielle McLean

Danielle has been a part of the Village Missions family since childhood, growing up as the daughter of Village Missionaries, Arnold and Eleanor Tracey. She came to know Christ as her Saviour at the age of 4 and served within the church throughout her childhood and teenage years.

Danielle completed her Bachelor of Business Administration degree at Trinity Western University and subsequently worked for several years within the government sector in various financial and leadership roles. Feeling called to use her gifts and experience to serve in a ministry setting, Danielle rejoined the Village Missions family as the Chief Financial Officer in 2020.

Danielle lives in Prince Edward Island with her husband Shawn and their three children, Emily, Jack and Luke.