Joanne B. Holstein is a Becker Bible Studies teacher and author of Guided Bible Studies for Hungry Christians. She has received her Master of Science degree in Psychology/Christian Counseling with honors from Liberty University. She is well-known as a counselor to Christian faithful who are struggling with tremendous burden in these difficult times. She is a leading authority on the history of development of the Christian churches and the practices and beliefs of world religions and cults.
The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod is the second largest of the Lutheran church bodies in the United States. It is a conservative and confessional Lutheran Christian denomination.
The Church of the Brethren is a group of Protestant churches which began in 1708 in Schwarzenau, Germany. They were driven from Germany into Holland and Switzerland by persecution. They first came to America in 1719 under the leadership of Peter Becker.