Meet Our writers
John O’Malley
John is the co-founder of the Guild of independent Baptist Writers. John writes with the heart of a teacher. He senses the struggle of people and points them to Scripture with the voice of a friend. John points people to Jesus by writing, speaking, and visual devotions.
John is a missionary with World Wide New Testament Baptist Missions.
You can discover his writing on Amazon or on OMalleybooks.com.
Duey Whitfield
Duey is the co-founder of the Guild of independent Baptist Writers. Duey writes as a friend and guide. His practical teaching strengthens believers and guides people to find answers to real-life questions in the Bible. His book, "Consumption and the Consumer," provides biblical answers to the oft-discussed point of what alcohol adds to a life.
Duey is a missionary church planter to Spanish-speaking America.
You can discover his writing on his website: DueyWhitfield.com
Amanda Baker
Amanda Baker
Amanda grew up in a pastor’s home, was saved at an early age, and was clearly called to missions as a teen. The Lord has allowed her to minister in short term missions endeavors to countless countries, but He has without a doubt placed a burden on her heart in recent years for the people of England. She was able to visit England on two survey trips in two different areas of the country. These trips confirmed God’s call for Amanda to minister with church-planting teams throughout England.
Amanda is currently serving with Jonathan and Natalie VandenHurk in Peterborough, England, to help establish Calvary Baptist Church as a self-supporting, self-governing, independent Baptist church led by a national pastor. She enjoys writing devotionally in an effort to understand the personal application of the Scriptures and is happy to share these thoughts with others through her writing. You can find her devotional writing on her ministry website. http://www.abaker2england.edifyhub.com/
Steve Schramm
Steve Schramm
Steve is an author, speaker, and Bible teacher with a heart for exploring God’s Word and God’s world. He trains Christians to become confident, passionate servants of Jesus, so they can grow in their walk with God and share their faith more persuasively. Sign up to receive two chapters of Steve’s book, Truth Be Told: An Independent Baptist Guide to Sharing Christianity, Overcoming Objections, and Winning More Souls for Christ, absolutely FREE by visiting http://www.steveschramm.com/whyapologetics
Steve is the Founder and President of The Creation Academy. jointca.co His weekly blog posts and podcasts can be found on his ministry website, steveschramm.com.
Lou Ann Keiser
Lou Ann Keiser
Lou Ann Keiser is a missionary wife, author, teacher, and counselor. She enjoys reading, writing, cooking, photography, and exploring places with lots of history with her husband. She’s the author of His Ways, Your Walk, a handbook for Christian women and has contributed to several other books, the most recent being Overcomer, by Kimberly Rae. Overcomer is a workbook for women who have been victims of trafficking and other abuse. Lou Ann’s personal blog is In the Way https://intheway-lk.blogspot.com. She also writes monthly for In Her Shoes, a blog for Baptist missionary women https://inhershoesbmw.blogspot.com. Lou Ann and her husband Roy have served in the beautiful Basque region of Spain for more than thirty three years. They have two grown, married children and four grandsons.
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Kristen Kelley
Kristen Kelley
Kristen Kelley and her husband Brandon are missionaries, currently on deputation to go to Southeast Asia. As a former Christian school teacher, and now as a mother of four little girls, she has long had a heart for education. Kristen thoroughly enjoys writing, whenever given the opportunity, and designs much of her own homeschooling curriculum. Her blog, entitled “Dinner’s In the Oven,” encourages women in their walk with the Lord.
Following two miscarriages in 2016 and 2017, she became burdened for ladies going through similar sorrow, without the comfort of God’s Word. Kristen's book, A Letter In Your Loss, helps women in their time of grief.
Kristen blogs at:
Jilene Scherbenske
Jilene Scherbenske
Jilene has loved to study and meditate on scripture most of her adult life. Her joy for God’s Word has led her to conduct ladies’ Bible studies for over 30 years. She and her husband attend Eagles Heights Baptist Church in Kansas City, MO. They have been married for forty-six years and have three daughters, all of whom are serving in full time ministries with their husbands, and thirteen grandchildren. Jilene received her BSN from the University of North Dakota. After serving as a nurse for several years she became active in the church’s music ministry and has remained in that capacity for more than twenty-five years. Her greatest love is God’s Word and the study and meditation of it.
Jilene blogs at hiswordmylight.com and her facebook page is Deepening Your Marriage.
Jim Taylor
jim taylor
Jim was saved while stationed in South Korea in February of 1984. He has been a missionary with Armed Forces Baptist Missions since 1991 and is currently serving as their Asian Director.
God has placed a special burden on his heart for the military stationed in Korea. As a result, he has spent 30 years of his life on the field and is currently serving as the Pastor of Haven Baptist Church at Kunsan AB, ROK.
Jim’s writings can be found on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Old Paths Publications.
Holly Minion
Holly Minion
Holly began writing in elementary school when she and a few friends formed a writing club. That club lasted about two weeks, but Holly never stopped writing. She moved on from writing "mystery stories" to placing in the Ohio Association of Christian School's Jr. High poetry contest to writing school term papers. After college, she used writing as a way to connect with others and get her thoughts worked out on paper.
Holly is the wife of a self-employed web developer and the mother of two energetic boys. Balancing home, church, and a part-time job doesn't leave much time for writing these days, but between loads of laundry, training for 5ks, and playing superheroes she is doing her best to write what God lays on her heart and hopes it will be an encouragement to others.
Jason Tsaddiq
Jason Tsaddiq is just a plain ol’ person who enjoys backyard farming, raising chickens, painting the house without first telling his wife.
who loves dark chocolate in one hand and mixed nuts in the other – to be eaten together.
who relishes music that makes him think of his Almighty Creator and Savior instead of how loud the drum accompaniment is.
who delights in yard-saling and thrift-storing because you just never know what you’ll find.
who wants to do right – his life’s main ambition.
who wants friends and acquaintances to know him as “one that escheweth evil.”
Jason, for security purposes, requests no image shown to protect his ministry location.
Byron FOxx
Dr. Byron Foxx is an evangelist, music publisher, songwriter, and the founder and president of Bible Truth Music. As an evangelist, he preaches about 500 times per year in about 100 cities. He also directs city-wide evangelistic campaigns called the GOD BLESS AMERICA RALLIES.
Bible Truth Music is a Christian music publishing company that provides music to over 7,000 churches! The Bible Songs For Kids series and the Bible Truth Hymnal are gaining wide distribution!
Daniel J. Brown
Daniel J. Brown is a church planter in Leutkirch, Germany. He and his family assisted in the founding of the Rhine Valley Project, a team effort to starting Biblical Baptist Churches in the southern Rhine Valley (Including Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Austria, and southern Germany). Daniel and his wife Deana have three children (Micah, Kaylee, and Tobiah). Their work amongst refugees from Africa and Middle Eastern countries has equipped them for outreach in the Muslim world, and given them a unique insight into international ministry. Daniel’s home church is Parkview Baptist Church in Livonia, Michigan.
Martin Wickens
God called Martin Wickens to serve Him as a pastor. He has ministered in churches in Glengormley, Northern Ireland, Sunderland, England, and Brimpton, England. He has a burden to see local churches thrive and support world evangelism by training and enabling each believer to fulfill their part in the work of the ministry.
Martin enjoys reading about a wide variety of subjects and incorporating truths and ideas he finds into sermons and blog posts.
Dan Zacharias
Dan was born in 1965 and grew up in west Michigan in a pastor’s home. Dan and Karen were married in 1988. Dan, Karen, and four of their eight children reside in the Shenandoah Valley. Two of the Zacharias children are students at Pensacola Christian College while two others serve on the faculty and staff at PCC. Dan is an active member of Valley Baptist Church in Edinburg since 1990. In 2005, God led Dan to become the Executive Director of the Old Dominion Association of Church Schools, the Virginia affiliate of the American Association of Christian Schools. (A longer Biography may be read here.)
Mike and Joyce White
Mike and Joyce White have been a team for 50 plus years. They served the Lord together both in the USA and many foreign countries. For 20 years, they were missionaries to countries of the former Soviet Union. They wrote Called to Go to give praise to their Lord and Saviour for all He has done in their life both before and since they began serving Him as full time missionaries. They are finishing their service for the King by taking the Gospel of Jesus Christ to American university and college campuses. You can learn more about their ministry at: Mike White – University Independent Baptist Outreach.
Joyce writes children’s church curriculum that is published and used in many churches in America and Russia.
Together Mike and Joyce recently wrote Thinkers Have Questions, a booklet that is distributed on university and college campuses.