Authors

JoAnn Doyle and her husband Tom have been married for 40 years and have 6 children and 10 grandchildren and counting. JoAnn was a pastor’s wife for 20 years before God called the Doyles into full-time mission work in the Middle East. Tom and JoAnn launched Uncharted Ministries, which sounds the alarm and inspires believers to join God’s great harvest among Jews and Muslims. The women’s ministry of Uncharted, called Not Forgotten, encourages others to join them as they reach women with the love of Christ in many places, including Israel, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Korea, and the United States. JoAnn is a guest on national TV and radio programs such as Focus on the Family, Moody Radio, and Mission Network News. JoAnn also hosts “Flourish”, a women’s TV program broadcasting the name of Jesus into the Persian World by satellite. She and Tom co-authored Women Who Risk: Secret Agents for Jesus in the Muslim World, and Breakthrough: The Return of Hope to the Middle East.

Tom Doyle is President of Uncharted Ministries. In 2001, right before the September 11th attacks, Tom left the pastorate and he and his wife, JoAnn, began working full time in the Middle East. Tom and JoAnn co-authored Women Who Risk: Secret Agents for Jesus in the Muslim World. Tom is author of Dreams and Visions: Is Jesus Awakening the Muslim World? and Breakthrough: The Return of Hope to the Middle East. His book, Killing Christians: Living the Faith Where It’s Not Safe to Believe, takes readers to secret meetings, torture rooms, grim prisons, and even the executions of those who choose faith over survival in countries hostile to the Gospel of Christ. He is also author of Standing in the Fire: Courageous Christians Living in Frightening Times, a finalist for the 2018 ECPA book of the year, telling the triumphant stories of Middle Eastern heroes of faith who feared God more than terrorist groups like ISIS.

Anna M. Droll, M. Div. (Fuller Theological Seminary), is ordained with the Assemblies of God and is a district-appointed missionary, having founded Kairos Global Missions in 2012 with her husband Raymond. Her ministry is focused in Africa where she also served as Communications Coordinator for Global Teen Challenge Africa. She is adjunct professor of Evangelism and Missions at Southeastern University and adjunct professor of Old Testament at Northwest University. She is finishing her PhD work with advisor, Amos Yong, exploring dreams and visions in African Pentecostal spirituality. A forthcoming publication will be articles to be presented in the Encyclopedia of Christianity in the Global South on Christianity in the West African countries of Togo and Benin. Facebook

Adam Durnham is a graduate of Central Michigan University with a BA in English and Minor in Psychology. He currently works as a freelance writer for the mental health and wellness sector. As a Christian, Adam has an extreme focus on God's Healing hand and His interaction with the world at large. He currently does missionary work with addicts in Detroit, Michigan.

John Edmiston is a Bible teacher, educator, author, public speaker, missions strategist and leader in the area of technology in missions. He is CEO of Cybermissions, an online ministry specializing in evangelism, discipleship, theological training, counseling, and leadership development.

Paul Elbert, physicist-theologian and New Testament scholar, teaches theology and science at the Pentecostal Theological Seminary. He is co-chair of the Formation of Luke-Acts section in the Society of Biblical Literature and is a research advisor to the Dominican Biblical Institute, Limerick, Ireland. His writings have appeared, for example, in Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft and in Catholic Biblical Quarterly. He served as editor of two anniversary volumes for Old Testament scholars, Essays on Apostolic Themes (1985) and Faces of Renewal (1988).

Matthew A. Elliott serves as president of Oasis International and project director for the Africa Study Bible. Oasis International serves areas of the English-speaking world where people lack access to affordable Christian literature and the Bibles needed to mature in their faith. Matthew earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and master’s degree in New Testament at Wheaton College, as well as a Masters of Theology and a Doctorate of Philosophy in New Testament Studies from University of Aberdeen (Scotland). He was ordained at College Church in Wheaton, Illinois under Dr. Kent Hughes. He is the author of Faithful Feelings: Rethinking Emotion in the New Testament (InterVarsity UK/Kregel) and Feel: the Power of Listening to Your Heart (Tyndale House). Matthew, his wife, Laura, and three children reside in the Chicago area.

Rev. Pamela F. Walter Engelbert, Ph.D., is a practical theologian and research/writer who is ordained with the Assemblies of God. She has served with her husband as co-pastors in the U.S. and as missionaries to Mongolia. In more recent years, they have returned periodically to Mongolia to teach block courses at the Mongolian Assemblies Bible Training Center (accredited with APTS). Pam is a graduate from Fuller (MDiv, 2010) and earned her PhD in Pastoral Care/Counseling from Luther Seminary (2017). Holding a Grief Support Specialist Certificate from the University of Wisconsin and a certificate of Death and Grief Studies from the Center for Loss and Life Transition in Fort Collins, Colorado, she companions others on their grief journeys by way of grief support groups conducted through a local nonprofit, nonreligious bereavement center. Pam is trained in Marshall Rosenberg's Compassionate Communication (nonviolent communication), which she has presented to various groups in churches and non-profit organizations. Her ongoing interests are grief/loss/dying, compassionate communication, violence against women, and pentecostal theological praxis of suffering and healing. She outlines a pentecostal theological praxis of suffering and healing of presence in Who is Present in Absence: A Pentecostal Theological Praxis of Suffering and Healing. In her most recent publication See My Body, See Me: A Pentecostal Perspective of Healing from Sexual Violence (Wipf & Stock 2024), she utilizes qualitative research to describe participants’ healing journeys from sexual violence and then provides three pentecostal healing praxes as ways for the church to respond to survivors of sexual violence. Pam currently lives with her husband in Colorado.

Steve D. Eutsler, D.Min. (Assemblies of God Theological Seminary), M.Div. (Assemblies of God Theological Seminary), M.A. Biblical Literature (Assemblies of God Theological Seminary), B.A. Bible (Central Bible College), is professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Global University in Springfield, Missouri. He has extensive experience as a pastor, evangelist, and educator and is the author of numerous articles and books. www.wix.com/SteveEutsler/reveut Email

D. William Faupel, Ph.D., serves as Professor of the History of Christianity and Director of the Library at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC. His graduate education includes degrees in theology, library science and the history of Christian thought from Asbury Theological Seminary, and the University of Kentucky in Kentucky and the University of Birmingham in England. Dr. Faupel, ordained in the Episcopal Church, has served as pastor, education and editor and writer. He is the author of The Everlasting Gospel: The Significance of Eschatology in the Development of Pentecostal Thought (Deo Press, 2008).

James Feltner and his wife, Chyrel, are the pastors of Emanuel Chapel in South Coffeyville, Oklahoma, and are the authors of Divine God Encounters. They are church planters and have pastored for 31 years in the South and Midwest.

Ajith Fernando is the Teaching Director of Youth for Christ after being its national director in Sri Lanka for 35 years. He and his wife, Nelun, are active in church ministering primarily to the urban poor. His ministry includes mentoring younger staff and counseling Christian workers. He is the author of fifteen books published in nineteen languages. www.ajithfernando.org. Facebook.

Steven M. Fettke, M.Div. (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary), Th.M., D.Min. (Columbia Theological Seminary), is Professor of Religion at Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida. He was awarded the Delta Alpha Distinguished Educator Award by the Alliance for Assemblies of God Higher Education in 2009. He is the author of Messages to a Nation in Crisis: An Introduction to the Prophecy of Jeremiah (1982).

Joseph Fiorentino is the pastor of Quadeville Pentecostal Church in Ontario, Canada. He earned a Master of Arts in Ministerial Leadership (2017) from Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida and a Master of Theological Studies (2023) from Tyndale University in Toronto, Ontario. His research interests center on kenotic participation in God through the indwelling Christ and rural church ministry. Joe and his wife Lori have a son, Joseph Jr.

Mitch Forman is the Vice President of U.S. Ministries for Chosen People Ministries, the oldest Jewish mission in the United States. Raised in a traditional Reform Jewish home near Boston, Mitch had a powerful encounter with Jesus as his Messiah after losing his job as a top chef in San Francisco in the mid-1980s. He has served in Jewish missions, taught classes on the Jewish background of the Bible, and was a founding leader of the Beth Yeshua Messianic Jewish Congregation. Mitch is married to Kina, a second-generation Jewish believer, and they have two daughters, Kaelee and Alana, and a son Joshua.

David Kyle Foster, M.Div. (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School), D.Min. (Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry), David is the author of Sexual Healing: A Biblical Guide to Finding Freedom from Sexual Sin and Brokenness, Transformed Into His Image, and Love Hunger: A Harrowing Journey from Sexual Addiction to True Fulfillment (Chosen, 2014). He has served as adjunct professor at Asbury Theological Seminary, The Bible Institute of Hawaii, Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry and Logos Christian College & Graduate School, and is on the faculty of the Wagner Leadership Institute. His articles have appeared in New Man, Charisma, Touchstone, and Rev magazines and he has appeared on programs ranging from The 700 Club, The Dr. Phil Show, and The Coral Ridge Hour to Janet Parshall's America. David is the founder and director of Mastering Life Ministries and producer of the “Pure Passion” TV program. He makes his home in the Nashville, TN area.

Brian Fulthorp, M.Div. (AGTS, 2007), is an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God who works as a Chaplain with Pruitt Health Hospice in Farmville, North Carolina. He is married to Debbie Fulthorp and they have three children.