About the author…..

Author, educator and researcher Joel Getts has been involved in ministry and education for most of his life. After spending nearly two decades owning and operating two businesses, he continued his education and went into pastoral ministry. Joel studied history extensively at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio. He is a graduate of the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science, the Church Leadership Academy of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Colorado Springs, Colorado and he holds certifications in Biblical Counseling and Life Coaching from the Light University of Forest, Virginia. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in History from Concordia College in Wilmington, Delaware and a Masters Degree in Philosophy and Apologetics from Trinity Theological Seminary in Newburgh, Indiana. He earned an additional Masters Degree in Sacred Historical Theology from the Universal School of Theology in Milford, Illinois and he also earned a Ph.D. in Biblical Studies from the St. Luke School of Biblical Studies in Hephzibah, Georgia. In addition to his pastoral ministry, He has been an adjunct instructor at the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science in Cincinnati, Ohio and the Central Institute of Theological Studies in Dayton, Ohio. At the time of this writing he is the Senior Pastor at Trinity Church in Miamisburg, Ohio. He and his wife Jeri, reside in Miamisburg, Ohio.