About the Authors
Devon O’Day, a radio personality, former plus-size model, songwriter, and author, studied voice-over and commercial acting at the Weist-Barron School in New York City and is the voice of choice to narrate specials for such artists as Garth Brooks, the Dixie Chicks, Kenny Chesney, and others.
Stuart Briscoe was born
England in 1930, graduated from high school at the age of seventeen, and
promptly embarked on a career in banking. He studied law, economics, and
accounting in his spare time and eventually became personal assistant to the
chief inspector of the bank. As he was doing all this, he was also preaching.
For twelve years, preaching and banking kept him fully occupied. Then during
the Korean War, he was drafted into the Royal Marines. In 1959, he and his wife
left the business world to share in the ministry of the Torchbearers, a youth
organization reaching out to the far corners of the world. About ten years
later, Elmbrook Church in Brookfield, Wisconsin, asked him to be their pastor.
The church has since grown to a weekly attendance in excess of seven thousand and
has planted eight sister churches in the Milwaukee area. After thirty years as
senior pastor at Elmbrook, he stepped down to assume the role of
ministers-at-large on the church staff. The recipient of various honorary
doctorates, he has preached in more than one hundred countries and is often invited
to minister for pastors, missionaries, and church lay leaders on all
continents. In his spare time he likes to read, run, and garden.
About Nan McNamara
Nan McNamara has performed on stage, television, film, and behind the microphone in voice-overs for over twenty years. Her passion is to tell good stories—no matter what the medium. Originally from St. Paul, Nan received a BA cum laude in theater.