Get to know the Wholly Loved Ministry Team below:
Teresa Baumbach
CEO, Board Member, Writer, Editor, Content Development
Teresa is a writer, teacher, and leader, by training and by gifting. She received her bachelor’s degree in English from Western Oregon University and her master’s degree in English from the University of South Dakota. She has taught English and writing at high school and college levels. Teresa has also used her skills in writing and editing, primarily for church publications. Before taking over leadership of the ministry, Teresa led our Content Development Team.
She has a heart for women and desires to help others grow in their walk with God by sharing her faith journey, including the challenges she has experienced. Teresa loves God and His Word, spending time daily in it. She also participates in and leads Bible studies regularly. She wants all women to experience healing, hope, and freedom through Christ. Teresa describes her faith journey as ongoing from childhood through the present day. God has grown her through the various seasons of her life. She openly shares how God’s grace sees her through the trials and sustains her daily. Her faith is the central part of her identity, and her relationship with the Lord is the most important one in her life. She describes it as “authentic,” meaning it is genuine and deep. She shares from a place of honesty with God, herself, and others.
She has been married to her husband, Bill, for 38 years. They have one daughter, Sarah, and a granddaughter, Julietta.
Bill Baumbach
Treasurer, Board Member
Bill Baumbach serves as Treasurer and a board member for Wholly Loved. He has been an IT executive, working for General Mills, IBM, AC Nielsen, Harry & David, Blue Bunny Ice Cream, and Make-A-Wish. He currently works as an executive partner with numerous CIOs across the country. In addition to his work in the field of technology, Bill has served on boards for United Way and a local area foodbank. He is a follower of Jesus and active in his local church community. He is a devoted husband, father, and grandfather.
Kelly Campbell
Team Manager, Board Member, Writer, Podcast
Kelly survived a massive stroke at 40 that left her physically disabled but with a passion for prayer and other survivors. She holds a Master of Divinity in Healthcare Chaplaincy and serves on the Board of Directors for Wholly Loved Ministries and the Brain Injury Association of Georgia. She is a recent transplant to Utah, coming from Woodstock, Georgia, a suburb north of Atlanta, and has never lived outside of the humid deep south but survived her first real winter. She led several service teams at her former church, Bridgepointe, an interdenominational church in Woodstock, where she was ordained through The Association of Related Churches (ARC) in August of 2022. She loves to use her testimony to help others and has been the Wholly Loved Team Manager since 2020.
Aneah Epshteyn
Public Relations/Administration/Faith Over Fear Support Group Leader
With a background in clerical and administrative positions, Aneah has an aptitude for organization and creativity while finding options and solutions for challenges presented. Those qualities have been applied to her research into healthy cooking and jewelry design. She is excited to see how the talents and skills the Lord has given her will be of service in ministry. She and her husband reside in Southeastern Wisconsin.
Ava Pennington
Podcast Host, Writer
Ava is an author, speaker, and Bible teacher. She’s also a freelance editor, a certified coach for Christian writers and speakers, and a mentor in Word Weavers Intl. And she teaches a weekly Bible Study Fellowship (BSF) class.
Equipped with an MBA, Ava’s career in human resources spanned 20+ years before she left the corporate world to become a writer and Bible teacher. Ava also received an Adult Bible Studies certificate from Moody Bible Institute and is trained as a Precepts Ministries instructor.
Ava is passionate about mining truths from Scripture and sharing those truths with others. She is the author of Reflections on the Names of God: 180 Devotions to Know God More Fully, as well as co-author of 2 children’s picture books. She has also written numerous magazine articles and is published in more than 35 anthologies.
Ava was blessed with a joyful marriage for 40 years before her husband graduated to heaven. Now she unwinds by spending time gardening and playing with her too-smart-for-her-own-good boxer. Visit www.AvaPennington.com to learn more.
Jason Thompson
IT
Jason Thompson is a husband, father, and software architect. Jason has over 15 years developing enterprise applications for a variety of organizations including small startups, multinational banking corporations, and a Fortune 500 healthcare company. Jason has a desire to use his unique skill set to serve God behind the scenes by empowering others to reach farther through technology.
Jason has been married to his wife Mary for almost two decades and they have a son and daughter. In Jason’s free time he can be found inventing crazy gadgets, collecting awesome “dad jokes”, studying apologetics, reading comic books, and obsessing over technology from the 1980s and 1990s. You can find out more about Jason Thompson by visiting https://jasonthompson.dev
Jenny Fulton
Writer, Graphics
Jenny is a wife, mother, and writer who enjoys studying Scripture and sharing what she has learned with others. She is the author of Princess Lillian and Grandpa’s Goodbye, Lil Kingdom Sisters Guide to the Alphabet (to be released Fall 2021), and an upcoming Bible Study on 1 Corinthians. An enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, Jenny developed an early interest in language and cultures. In 2007, she graduated from Grace University with a B.S. in Bible, a B.S. in elementary education, and an endorsement in K-12 ESL. For the next seven years, she worked as a teacher in a variety of cultural and educational settings, both abroad and in the United States. Her days are now spent raising her three young daughters and writing as much as time and opportunity allow. You can find more of her writings on her website at heart-soul-mind.org
Jessica Brodie
Graphic Design, Editor
Jessica is an award-winning Christian journalist, author, blogger, and editor. She is the editor of the South Carolina United Methodist Advocate, the oldest newspaper in Methodism, which has won more than 118 journalism awards during her tenure. She is the author of two devotionals, Feed My Sheep (2019) and More Like Jesus (2018), and editor of Stories of Racial Awakening (2018) and Called by God (2020), all from her newspaper’s Advocate Press. She also writes fiction, represented by Bob Hostetler of The Steve Laube Agency, and her novel The Memory Garden won the 2018 Genesis contest for unpublished contemporary fiction from the American Christian Fiction Writers. A speaker and contributor to Crosswalk, Christianity.com, and the United Methodist News Service, she has a faith blog at JessicaBrodie.com.
Joanne Sher
Content Editor
Joanne Sher was raised in Southern California but now lives in West Michigan with her husband Marc, and their two teenage children. Both Joanne and Marc were raised in the Jewish faith and came to Christ in their early 30s. Find one version of her salvation testimony here, and another (less “facty” – more “pretty”) here.
Joanne holds a Bachelor’s degree in English and has been editing/proofreading for friends probably since high school (or maybe even junior high). About twelve years ago, however, she started taking on jobs to help supplement her family’s income. She has edited everything from short devotionals to book-length manuscripts to course material and truly LOVES doing it, and working with people. She volunteers in various children’s ministries at her church and is an avid reader and student of Scripture.
Jodie Bailey
Writer, Podcast Host
Jodie Bailey is a Carolina girl who believes in the transformational power of the story when God is allowed to hold the pen. She spent fifteen years moving and moving and moving around the country with her now-retired Army husband. As an Army wife, she developed a love for serving and speaking to other Army spouses as a Protestant Women of the Chapel study leader, a Family Readiness Group leader, and an Army Family Team Building instructor.
Jodie began her writing career by creating content for PWOC’s international e100 women’s study and contributing to military family devotions and blogs. She is a multi-published inspirational fiction author who crafts suspense stories infused with the power of God’s love and freedom. If she’s not behind the keyboard, she’s probably teaching high schoolers the power of their personal stories in yearbook class or, better yet, she has her toes buried in the sand and a fishing line in the water on the Outer Banks. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, her daughter, and two dogs who are currently locked in an ongoing battle for the attention of their humans. You can stop by and say hi at http://www.jodiebailey.com.
Lillian Duncan
Writer
Lillian Duncan is a multi-published author who lives in the middle of Ohio Amish country with her husband and a menagerie of pets. After more than 30 years of working as a speech pathologist for children, she saw how the power of words transforms lives, especially Scripture. Her tagline for many years was “stories of faith mingled with murder & mayhem” since she wrote Christian suspense and mystery novels. In 2012, she was told, “You have bilateral brain tumors.” She had no idea how much those words would change her life, but they did. When life changes for a writer, their writing changes as well. She still loves to write suspense and mystery novels but also has branched out into other genres. Despite being diagnosed with bilateral brain tumors and a rare genetic disease (Neurofibromatosis Type 2 (NF2), God continues to strengthen her and give her peace and joy as well as the blessing to be able to continue to write.
Her goal is to write stories that entertain but also demonstrate God’s love for all of us. To learn more about Lillian, visit http://www.lillian-duncan.com.She also has a devotional blog at http://www.PowerUpWithGod.com.
Lisa Walton
Graphic Design
Lisa has been married to her husband for almost twenty-eight years and has three children–two boys and one girl. She was raised as a Christian and loves the Lord and serving Him in any way she can. She has extensive IT experience, graduated from college with a degree in Computer Graphics, and enjoys the opportunity to use those skills to share truth.
Susan Aken
Writer, Editor
An Oklahoma native who has lived in Nebraska since 1987, Susan is a former school librarian and a current substitute teacher who has been involved in public education for over thirty years. She and her husband have one son whose adoption at two days old when she was 39 was a miracle. They now also have a beautiful daughter-in-law. Susan is a contributing writer to Wholly Loved Ministries and has occasionally written devotions for other blogs. Besides writing she has a passion for special needs ministry and prayer ministry. She enjoys time with family, reading, photography, movies, walking anywhere in nature, and sitting down with a cup of tea.
Susan uses her writing to serve Wholly Loved Ministries in numerous capacities, including creating content for our devotional projects and Bible reading plans as well as writing articles for iBelieve on the ministry’s behalf. She looks to Jesus as her constant friend, Savior, and Lord. She believes life is a journey and we’re all in different places. It’s all about grace. Visit her at susanaken53.wordpress.com or connect on Facebook
Suzette Oxendine
Writer
Suzette has practiced medicine as a Physician Assistant for 12 years, 11 of which have been in pediatrics at Children’s Health of Carolina, and recently changed to
part-time status to devote more time to her ministries. As a pastor’s wife, Susie holds several leadership roles at Pembroke First Baptist, including Worship Leader and Bible teacher of their Princess Warriors Women’s group. She loves encouraging women to find and use their God-designed gifts to serve in kingdom work for the Lord.
Susie’s most recent accomplishment is becoming a published author of the Christian children’s book entitled Little Curly Susie. At the end of each day, Susie treasures most the quiet moments when she can tune in to the voice of God directing and encouraging her on this awesome journey. Susie likes to say, “If you wear this many hats in a day, you either have a big head or serve a BIG God!”