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Jerry B. Jenkins (www.jerryjenkins.com) is the author of more than one hundred books. The former vice president for publishing for the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, he also served many years as editor of Moody magazine. His writing has appeared in a variety of publications, including Reader's Digest, Parade, in­-flight magazines, and many Christian periodicals. He writes books in four genres: biographies, marriage and family, fiction for children, and fiction for adults.

Jenkins's biographies include books with Hank Aaron, Bill Gaither, Luis Palau, Walter Payton, Orel Hershiser, Nolan Ryan, Brett Butler, and Billy Graham, among many others. The Hershiser, Ryan, and Graham books reached the New York Times best-sellers list.

Four of his apocalyptic novels, coauthored with Tim LaHaye, Left Behind, Tribulation Force, Nicolae, and Soul Harvest, have appeared on the Christian Booksellers Association's best-selling fiction list and the Publishers Weekly religion best-sellers list. Left Behind was nomi­nated for Novel of the Year by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association in both 1997 and 1998.

As a marriage and family author and speaker, Jenkins has been a frequent guest on Dr. James Dobson's Focus on the Family radio program.

Jerry is also the writer of the nationally syndicated sports story comic strip Gil Thorp, distributed to news­papers across the United States by Tribune Media Ser­vices.

Jerry and Dianna and their sons live in northeastern Illinois and in Colorado

Speaking engagement bookings are available through speaking@jerryjenkins.com.

 

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Tim LaHaye is a noted author, minister, counselor, and nationally recognized speaker on family life and Bible prophecy. He is the founder and president of Family Life Seminars and the founder of The PreTrib Research Center. Presently Dr. LaHaye speaks at many of the major Bible prophecy conferences in the U.S. and Can­ada, where his seven current prophecy books are very popular.

Dr. LaHaye is a graduate of Bob Jones University and holds an M.A. and Doctor of Ministry degree from Western Conservative Theological Seminary. For twenty-five years he pastored one of the nation's out­standing churches in San Diego, which grew to three locations. During that time he also founded two accredited Christian high schools, a Christian school system of ten schools, and Christian Heritage College.

Dr. LaHaye has written over forty nonfiction titles, with over ten million copies in print in thirty-two lan­guages. He has written books on a wide variety of sub­jects, such as family life, temperaments, and Bible prophecy. His current fiction works written with Jerry Jenkins, Left Behind, Tribulation Force, Nicolae, and Soul Harvest, have all reached number one on the Christian best-seller charts. Other works by Dr. LaHaye are Spirit-Controlled Temperament; How to Be Happy though Married; Revelation, Illustrated and Made Plain; and a youth fiction series, Left Behind: The Kids.

He is the husband of Beverly LaHaye, founder and chairperson of Concerned Women for America. Together they have four children and nine grand­children. Snow skiing, waterskiing, motorcycling, golf­ing, vacationing with family, and jogging are among his leisure activities.


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