John J HowartonThe author is a very blessed man, married to Angela, with three children and eight grandchildren. John served as a Christian missionary behind the Iron Curtain in the 1980s and '90s, working with the persecuted church, training Christian leaders in Estern Europe and the Soviet Union. Afterward, he taught in American Christian academics for seventeen years, and currently, he and his wife are active in a teaching ministry in the Middle East and East Africa. Read More Read Less