Brian Keith Jones

Contact Him: bkj@briankeithjones.com

Brian Keith Jones was born in Flint, Michigan. He earned a Bachelor Degree in marketing from Ferris State University, his Masters and Professional Degrees from the University of Michigan. Jones has been a business executive in a multi-national corporation responsible for North America, a business owner, consultant, public speaker and free lance writer. He currently works with companies that are considering acquisitions, and firms preparing to sell. Brian and his wife Mary have three children, Tyler, Lauren and Trey.

Dr. Salminen

Contact Him: drsal@new-gate.org

Dr. Bryan R. Salminen was born in Lansing Michigan. He received the B.A. degree from Concordia Ann Arbor, the M.Div. degree from Concordia Seminary St. Louis Missouri, the M.Ed. degree from Michigan State and the University of Toledo, the Ph.D. degree from St. Louis University. He has also done post-doctoral work at Washington University. He is a licensed professional counselor, a licensed marriage and family therapist and a clinical member of the American Association of Marriage and Family therapy. He served parishes in Ohio and Illinois. He also served as professor of psychology at Concordia University, Ann Arbor and professor of pastoral counseling at Concordia Seminary before serving as pastor at Emmanuel Lutheran, Cadillac Michigan. He has authored numerous articles as well as two books. No Ordinary Men was originally published by Concordia Publishing House in 2000 and he has a new book on Divorce published by the Lutheran Laymen's league. He has taught in Brazil, Germany, Cambridge England and Latvia. He and his wife Casey are co-founders, developers of Zoe (www.zoescore.com) an on-line premarital counseling program. Dr. Salminen and Casey have three children, Lauren, David and Michael.