Mark Ward Sr. is a gifted Christian communicator whom God has used as an author, broadcaster, educator, and speaker. He is author of seven books including two histories of religious broadcasting, the present volume and Air of Salvation: The Story of Christian Broadcasting, and he has appeared on numerous national and local Christian talk shows as a commentator on religious media. A contributor to leading religious and business journals, he has been a frequent speaker at Christian writers conferences nationwide and serves on the advisory board of the American Christian Writers Association. As a broadcaster Mark has been producer and speaker for four nationally syndicated daily radio programs including The Word Works!, stories of conversions through gospel literature that have now been published as a book of the same name. He has served on the faculties of two Christian universities teaching writing and broadcasting. Today Mark lives with his wife Donna in Greenville, South Carolina, and ministers as a full-time independent writer. He provides communications consulting and public relations for Christian ministries as founder and president of Message Media Group and may be contacted at www.messagemedia.us. Mark also ministers at churches throughout the eastern United States as a member of the Calvary Quartet and may be contacted for church engagements at www.calvaryquartet.com.