The Creative Story Project is a collaboration of people who are dedicated
to the use of story to encourage, enlighten, and educate.
to the use of story to encourage, enlighten, and educate.
Pete Vanderpool
Pete Vanderpool is a successful entrepreneur, speaker, and author. He has been a storyteller for over twenty years, regaling people with his folksy style and laughter..
Substituting at a mall in Wisconsin began a 21 year career as Santa Claus, and also led him into the storytelling genre. Since that time, he has been teaching, telling, and learning the art of storytelling, and is now focusing on story gathering — teaching how to find relevance in the stories of your life. Pete started The Santa Project as a 501(c)3 non-profit to teach children about personal safety. He has also taught elementary school students to write, illustrate, and publish their own original stories. He now presents talks and workshops on various topics, but not during the last few weeks of the year when his Santa Claus persona reappears! You can contact him at: pete@creativestoryproject.com |
Joyce Vanderpool
Joyce is a successful business person in her own right. She has worked beside her husband Pete in the capacity of what a friend calls "The Vice President of Everything Else".
A member of the Cleveland Storytelling Guild, she is a storyteller and a trained emcee, but she is more likely to use story to illustrate her talks or press releases involving community work and the programs of the Creative Story Project. Joyce enjoys just about anything creative, including photography, sewing, and needle arts, and writing or telling the stories that come through her life. She and Pete have four children, four grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren, all certainly supplying fodder for the stories of their nearly 40 years of marriage. You can contact her at: joyce@creativestoryproject.com |
Wendy C. Brown
Wendy is a seeker, hiker, and lover of nature who also enjoys writing, teaching, speaking, photography, travel, and long coffee shop conversations with friends.
Wendy’s passions include the global fight against human exploitation and offering whole life alternatives to women in prostitution. In 2015, Wendy earned her MBA her MS in Marriage and Family Therapy. She has written for Moody Monthly, Cornerstone, Discipleship Journal, Women Alive!, Women of Spirit, ParentLife, HomeLife, On Mission, Mature Living, Youth and CE Leadership, and Evangel Magazine. In April 2011, Wendy published the book, Revolving Choices: Playing Roulette With Life. It is now in its second printing. She is the co-author of Equipped to Bless: Finding Relevance in the Stories of Your Life. You can contact her at: wcbrown10@yahoo.com |
