Nordskog Publishing Inc.

Publisher's Corner

Publishing Team

OUR ADVISORY COUNCIL

	Dr. Ted Baehr Dr. Ted Baehr is the founder and Chairman of The Christian Film & Television Commission™ and Publisher of MOVIEGUIDE® Magazine, a family guide to entertainment. An award-winning media authority often on television, radio and print, his purpose is to be used by God to redeem the values of the mass media and to encourage families to use wisdom in selecting their entertainment. His books include The Media-Wise Family, Narnia Beckons, Faith In God & Generals, as well as the newly released The Amazing Grace Of Freedom and The Culture-Wise Family, among many others. For more information, please visit www.movieguide.org. Ted Baehr is married to Lili and they have raised three sons and a daughter and reside in Camarillo, CA near the offices of Movieguide.
	Eugene Clingman Eugene Clingman and his lovely wife Edna along with five of their eight children reside in Winona, Missouri. Eugene received a Bachelor of Theology degree from Berean Bible College, San Diego, CA, and has served in the pastorate fourteen years: as Associate Pastor, Westminster Foursquare Church; as Senior Pastor of Brawley Foursquare Church in Brawley, CA; as Associate Pastor and Minister of Evangelism at Living Way Church, Poway, CA; and Associate Pastor at Covenant Family Church, Redlands, CA. Eugene served with the U.S. Center for World Mission three and a half years where his responsibilities evolved from a role in the Personnel Department, to Director of the Serve-Work-Study Program, and finally as Interim Manager of William Carey Library Publishing. Since 1999 Eugene has served with Coalition on Revival and the International Church Council Project. The Clingman Family also operates a web-based business www.GranolaDelights.com, and www.4HisName.com.
	Dr. Marshall Foster Dr. Marshall Foster is the founder and president of the Mayflower Institute, a non-profit educational foundation. Since 1976 he has been dedicated to teaching and reclaiming America’s godly heritage. Previously he founded the Los Angeles Rams chaplain program, and USC’s Campus Crusade for Christ ministry. Dr. Foster is a best-selling author and keynote speaker, effectively and dynamically communicating biblical truths and principles of our founding fathers’ miraculous success story. Multitudes have been impacted by Marshall’s seminars, historical tours, educational materials and media appearances; and his contagious love for Jesus Christ. His passion to unite this land as “One Nation Under God” has inspired young and old alike. Dr. Foster’s biblical and historical wisdom offers a new generation hope for a lasting spiritual and cultural revival. He and his wife, Trish have raised a daughter and son and reside in Moorpark, CA.
	Rev. Christopher Hoops (January 29, 1950 – July 17, 2008) On July 17, 2008, Nordskog Publishing’s founding Theology Editor Rev. Christopher Rory Hoops went home to His Lord after a lengthy and painful illness. As a long-time, loyal friend, Rev. Hoops urged Jerry and Gail Nordskog to embark into the Christian publishing business after they sold Powerboat Magazine. Known as Chris to his friends, Rev. Hoops leaves an apt legacy to NPI with his contribution to our first four titles. (See his article on our title The Battle of Lexington). Whether in missionary ministry to the Navajo and Hopi reservations, his founding Inland Christian Center Academy, or the founding of American Heritage Christian Church and other churches, Chris tirelessly served His Lord. He voraciously studied Biblical theology, with its apt expressions in Christian history. Christian liberty was his great passion. With great energy, Chris forged outlets for his acquired wisdom in the form of public speaking, classroom teaching, pulpit ministry and political action. Among his outlets, Chris regularly contributed to Jerry Nordskog’s Southern California Constitution Education Committee, speaking on America’s Christian History and Liberty. In all these activities, Chris became a well-known leader in Reformed and Christian action circles. Rev. Hoops has been reunited with his oldest daughter, Erin, who died at age 16 in an auto accident in Colville, WA, where the family lived for many years. He is survived by his devoted wife, Gail, and sons Christopher (with his wife Shay), Michael, and adopted daughters Bridgette, Tia, and Katie.
	Dr. Jay Grimstead Dr. Jay Grimstead graduated from Fuller Seminary with a Thm and a DMin degree and spent 20 years on staff with Young Life Campaign. The past 30 years he has been organizing theologians and leaders to clarify and defend the historic Church's biblical stand on the major controversial issues plaguing the church at this point in history. He organized the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy (a team of 60 of the world's leading scholars and leaders) in 1977 that created the definitive statement on biblical inspiration: The 19 Articles on Biblical Inerrancy. In 1984 he founded the Coalition on Revival which created the 17 Worldivew Documents which are blueprints for how the Bible applies to the major areas of life (www.Reformation.net). In 1992 COR organized the International Church Council Project which created 18 of their 22 Theological Documents (www.ChurchCouncil.org). Their Mission Statement is "to establish for the 21st century, a biblical theological standard of doctrine for the global Church that is consistent with the mainstream theology of the first 20 centuries." Dr. Jay & Donna Grimstead have raised a son and daughter in CA.
	Ronald Kirk Ron Kirk has been married to Christina since 1971. They have five children and six grandchildren. Upon a degree from the University of California, Berkeley, he has practiced professional landscape architecture since 1974, and now practices as Ronald Kirk Design, in Oxnard, CA. Entering Christian education, he soon became an eager student of the Reformed Faith and of America’s Christian history. Since 1980, Ron has studied and taught the Biblically and historically identified applied-faith view of life and education known as Get Wisdom! In 1982, he founded the Master’s School K through 12 in Camarillo, CA. He was ordained as a minister of the Gospel in 1984 by the American Heritage Christian Church, and served as its pastor from 1991 to 1996. Ron founded Berean Christian Academy in Milford, CT in 1996, and in 2000 worked with Covenant Academy Asheboro, NC. He has served the Chalcedon Foundation to write and speak on applied faith and educational subjects, and has spoken at venues all around the USA.
	J. Richard Tennesen, Jr. A California native, J. Richard Tennesen, Jr. came to faith in Jesus Christ as a young adult, quite active in the conservative political movement of the 1960s. His conversion soon led to two years’ service in administration with the international organization, Youth With A Mission. Following a call to pastoral ministry, Richard moved his family to Santa Cruz, CA, where he earned a bachelor’s degree at Bethany Bible College (now Bethany University), and pursued extensive post-graduate studies at Western Seminary’s campus in Los Gatos, CA. From 1976 to the present, he pastored five churches in Oregon and California; and is currently lead pastor of Redwood Christian Center in Felton, CA. His ministry has included service with Teen Challenge Monterey Bay, Pregnancy Resource Center, Healing Rooms of Monterey Bay, Evangelical Ministers Fellowship, and Radio Liberty with Dr. Stanley Monteith. Tennesen lives in Capitola with his wife of 49 years, Mandy, and their adult daughter. Their son, his wife, and their four children live in Chowchilla, CA.