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Connie Jeffery hosts Weekend Voice with Pastor Fred Kinsey. She is the youngest child of George and Nellie Vandeman and was born the same year her father founded the It Is Written telecast. Connie also hosts the Keeping the Faith television program along with Gale Murphy, Andrea Judd, and medical expert Dr. Diana Broomfield. The program focuses on issues of particular interest to women.

Connie has been in front of television cameras since the age of five, when her father carried her with her teddy bear across the It Is Written set in New York. She began studying piano in the second grade, received a guitar for Christmas when she was 13, recorded her first album (God Is Beautiful) for Chapel Music during her junior year of high school, began singing on her father’s telecast the following year, and received an Angel Award in 1990 for her album Jesus Never Fails. She recorded the album It’s Beginning to Rain in 1993 and the popular Songs My Father Loved in 2001. The latter is a tribute to her father George Vandeman.

Connie’s numerous articles have appeared in Insight, the Adventist Review, VOP News, and the It Is Written magazine, Channels. She is currently working on her first book for Pacific Press.

Along with her role at Voice of Prophecy, Connie is associate manager of the Adventist Media Center in Simi Valley, California. Prior to joining the Media Center staff, she was a property manager for a Beverly Hills development corporation for 12 years. She has also worked in advertising and promotion at the CBS network in Hollywood.

Connie and her husband Ron Jeffery have one son, Craig, and a new daughter-in-law, Bryanne. Her spare time activities include golf, tennis, reading, and writing.

Fred Kinsey, speaker/director for Voice of Prophecy, grew up almost in the shadow of the Voice of Prophecy headquarters when it was located in Glendale, California. He and H. M. S Richards often crossed paths in the morning, when Pastor Richards was walking to the office and Fred was walking to school.

Fred’s favorite story from those days is about Pastor Richards coming to his school and talking to the children and demonstrating his amazing command of the Bible—reciting many verses from memory.

Pastor Kinsey brings a wide background in pastoral ministry, church administration, and communications to his role as speaker/director of Voice of Prophecy. He also serves as assistant to the president for communication at the North American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He coordinates corporate communication for the Adventist Church in North America and also serves as president of the Adventist Media Center, of which Voice of Prophecy is a component ministry.

Prior to joining the Division office in 2005, he was chair of the communication department at Pacific Union College, where he taught classes in design, debate, and public relations. His career has also included 20 years (1981-2001) at the Northern California Conference as communication and stewardship director and assistant to the president. He also has experience in commercial radio (classical, adult contemporary, and beautiful music stations), and a few years ago he was the classical announcer for the Earthlink Radio Network.

A graduate of Loma Linda University (1974, history major and communication minor) and the Theological Seminary at Andrews University (1978, M.Div. degree), Kinsey served as a pastor in Ohio from 1978 to 1981.

Pastor Kinsey and his wife, Lynette, live in Maryland. They have two adult children - Stephanie now serves in her father's former position as communication director for the Northern California Conference; Jeffrey works for Microsoft in computer programming.

Kinsey's hobbies are astronomy and tropical fish..

Mike Tucker is heard on Voice of Prophecy’s daily broadcast. In addition to being an associate speaker for Voice of Prophecy, he serves as speaker/director for the Faith For Today television. Until early 2009, he was senior pastor of the 1900-member, Arlington Seventh-day Adventist Church in Arlington, Texas.

He has previously served as a Christian High School Bible teacher, youth pastor, and chaplain for medical and psychiatric facilities. He holds a master’s degree in counseling and has served as a “Pastor’s Pastor” for ministers in his denomination.

Pastor Tucker has authored several books, including Journal of a Lonely God; Jesus, He’s All You’ll Ever Need; Every Good Thing; A Time for You; The Irrefutable, Irrevocable, Unalterable Laws of Dating; Ten Keys to a Happy Marriage; and Meeting Jesus in the Book of Revelation.

Pastor Tucker was the speaker for NET 2007, HeartQuest: Finding the One Who Has Loved You All Along.

Mike hosts Faith For Today’s flagship program, Lifestyle Magazine, the most recognized Adventist broadcast in America. Along with Pastor Elizabeth Talbot, Mike hosts daily radio programs for Voice of Prophecy. Mike lives in the Dallas area with his wife Gayle.

From earliest childhood, Elizabeth Talbot loved Jesus. Born to missionary parents in Argentina who instilled this love for Jesus in her, Elizabeth would often line up a captive audience of her dolls and teach and preach to them from a very early age. Little did she know that would be good practice for what God had planned for her to do in the future. Although her college degree was in music education, Elizabeth spent many years in the business world as an accountant and manager. During this time, she not only earned a Master’s degree in corporate psychology, she also volunteered for approximately fifteen years as a part-time youth pastor.

However, God had other plans for her and she was eventually invited to become a full-time pastor for the Seventh-day Adventist church. She began her ministry as a young adults/young families pastor and evangelist while earning her Master’s degree in Biblical studies at Azusa Pacific University. She greatly enjoys evangelism and is continually seeking for creative ways to reach people for Jesus, which has included doing podcasting and webcasting for several years.

Most recently, Elizabeth was the senior pastor of the Grace Place in Alhambra. She is also an adjunct Biblical Studies Professor for the Haggard Graduate School of Theology at Azusa Pacific University. Also, Elizabeth is presently a Ph.D. candidate in Biblical studies at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.

While also traveling throughout the United States and internationally as a lecturer and revival/motivational speaker, Elizabeth is now the new co-host for the Voice of Prophecy “Daily Voice” broadcast. The VOP website will allow you to download podcasts of her program and listen live to streaming radio. The website will also help you find radio stations and their schedules and much more. In addition, Elizabeth is regularly featured on the Hope Channel and the Loma Linda Broadcasting Network. Elizabeth recently authored “Matthew: Prophecy Fulfilled” which is featured as one of the sharing booklets of this year published by Pacific Press Publishing Association.

Elizabeth is married to Patrick Talbot, a Marriage and Family Therapist. Elizabeth’s main identity is her passion about the Good News of Jesus Christ: “It’s like fire in my bones” she says, and she means it!.