Donald M. Goldstein is Professor Emeritus and former Director of GSPIA’s Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. A veteran of the Korean War, he is a retired Air Force officer who served for 22 years. He has taught courses in history, public administration, political science, arms control, national security, theory and practice of international affairs, American foreign policy, international relations and military history.

Dr. Goldstein is the author of over 50 articles and 21 books including At Dawn We Slept, which was runner up for the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 and on the Best Seller List of the New York Times for 47 weeks. He won two Peabody Awards for historical work with ABC and was the winner of the National Association of Public Administrators Teacher of the Year as well as the Chancellor’s Distinguished Teacher at the University of Pittsburgh. He serves as a consultant for NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, the History Channel and NHK (Japan). He earned a BA in History and a MA in History from the University of Maryland. He also holds MS in Political Science from Georgetown University and in Public Administration from George Washington University. Goldstein earned his Doctor of Philosophy Degree in History from the University of Denver in 1970.

Carol Aiko DeShazer Dixon is the first daughter of Jacob and Florence DeShazer. She spent most of her childhood being home-schooled by Florence and attending military and missions schools in Japan. She graduated from the Christian Academy High School in Japan in 1972. She then attended Aldersgate College in Saskatchewan, Canada, where she received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Christian Education. At Aldersgate, she met and married a Canadian, Ken Dixon from British Columbia. They were married in Tokyo, Japan, by her father on December 19, 1974. The couple spent one year living in Tokyo with the DeShazers assisting their missionary work, teaching English and studying Japanese. During this time, Carol Aiko gained a greater appreciation for her parents, their ministry and all the sacrifices they had made for her and her siblings. She is very passionate about her parents’ legacy and feels strongly that their story is something she wants the world to know more about. She is presently working to make her parents’ story more available through documentaries, books and other media outlets.

Margaret Davidson lives in St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada. Married since 1963, she and her husband, Bill, have three children. Her message is one of love and total forgiveness. Blake Davidson, Magaret’s son, lives in Dundas, Ontario, and is senior pastor at Christian Life Assembly. A church planter and pastor for more than eighteen years, he is married and has four children.

Dr. Debi Toporoff, born in Stuart, Florida, has been in the mental health field for over thirty years. She received a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of South Carolina, a master’s degree in health services administration from Central Michigan University, a master’s degree in theology, and a doctorate of ministry from the Life School of Theology. She has one daughter and resides in Beech Island, South Carolina.

Dale Williams is an author, pastor, counselor, educator and missionary. He has devoted his life to ministering to and rescuing others, and helping people in desperate need to come to know God.

Dr. Sandra Clifton has earned a doctor of ministry and masters of divinity from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was a frequent contributor to the "Fueling the Fire" devotional, which was a feature of SpiritLed Woman magazine. Dr. Clifton teaches writing workshops for doctor of ministry candidates at Oral Roberts University. Sandra and her husband, Terry, both ordained ministers, have an outreach healing ministry called Sandra Clifton Ministries. The Cliftons reside in Los Angeles, California.