"Mightier than the thunders of many waters, mightier than the waves of the sea, 

the Lord on High is mighty." Ps. 93:4

ABOUT JEANETTE

          A daughter of American missionaries, Jeanette Windle grew up in the jungles and small towns of Colombia, now guerrilla hot zones. In 1981, Jeanette graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Biblical Studies and Theology from Prairie Bible College in Three Hills, Alberta. In 1985, Jeanette and her husband Martin moved to Bolivia to work with a nondenominational Christian mission organization. While her husband served as director, Jeanette worked with women and children at risk in varied regions of Bolivia.

       Jeanette began her publishing/writing career producing Spanish-language educational and inspirational material for women and children at risk as well as writing articles for a variety of international publications. This was followed over the next years by eight children's books, including the six books of the Parker Twins Adventure Series, a young adult mystery/suspense series set in a multi-cultural background.  Her first major adult fiction release, CrossFire, a 630-page political/suspense novel set in the counter-narcotics war in Bolivia, was released in July, 2000. A teen novel, Jana’s Journal, and a second adult political/suspense novel, The DMZ, set in the guerrilla warfare in Colombia, were released in spring of 2002. FireStorm, an exploration of Islamic terror ties in Latin America, was released, July, 2004. Her most recent suspense novel, Betrayed, is scheduled for release by Tyndale House Publishers in March, 2008, in both English and Spanish. Tyndale has also recently published The DMZ in Spanish as Zona de Despeje.

         Jeanette and her husband Marty moved to Miami in June, 2000, when her husband assumed the position of Vice-President of General Services for Latin America Mission, a nondenominational Christian mission organization working throughout Latin America. In January, 2006, they moved again to Lancaster, PA, when Marty accepted the position of President of BCM International, another nondenominational mission organization serving in 50 countries on five continents.

        Jeanette heads up BCM’s media department, speaks and travels extensively both in the U.S. and internationally, and serves as consulting editor and mentor in developing indigenous writers in more than a dozen different countries from Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador, Brazil, Spain, to Croatia and the Philippines. She is recipient of Focus on Fiction’s 2005 Deserted Island Book Award (i.e. the reading material of choice if one were headed to a deserted island). Jeanette is also recipient of the South Florida Writers Association 2004 Celebrity Author’s Award and 2002 Mabel Meadows Staats Award. She served for three years as VP of Publication for the South Florida Writers Association and president of Miami-Dade Christian Writers and is currently president of Lancaster Christian Writers. Marty and Jeanette have four children.