Now in it’s 47th year of publication, The Christian Appeal is a monthly devotional magazine designed to honor Jesus and to celebrate our faith in him in a way that will be winsome and understandable to our non-church-going neighbors. Although the publishers are not ashamed of their own Christian roots, they try to submerge denominational distinctions in order to publish a journal that will minister to all those in any place who honor Jesus as Lord.

Senior Editor Gene Shelburne has been the pulpit minister at the Anna Street Church in Amarillo, Texas, for 42 years. He is the author and publisher of the Family Bible Study series of lessons. His column “Cross Currents” appears in several newspapers, including the Amarillo Globe News. He has written four books, The God Who Puts Us Back Together, Expect the Light!, The Quest for Unity, and Families That Stay Together.

Curtis K. Shelburne has lived, worked, and ministered during most of his life in the Texas panhandle, though his ministry in writing, speaking, and preaching has taken him and/or his words about the Word across our nation. Hailing from a ministry family (the son of a minister and brother of three ministers), Curtis grew up in Amarillo, Texas, and went on to earn degrees from San Jacinto College (A.A., English), Abilene Christian University (B.A., Bible), and West Texas A & M University (M.A., English). He is the author of How To Measure a Rainbow (Covenant Publishing, 2001) and Wing Whispers of Love (Covenant Publishing, 2004), and the narrator for the audio version of Wing Whispers of Love (2007). He is also the author of one chapter of Unleashing the Potential of the Smaller Church (ed., Shawn McMullen, Standard Publishing, 2006). For twenty-five years he has served as minister of the 16th & D Church of Christ in Muleshoe, Texas. For twenty-seven years he has served as Managing Editor of The Christian Appeal devotional magazine and for many years he has penned the Focus on Faith newspaper column which is also available via free subscription as a weekly e-mail column (www.focusonfaith.injesus.com). His web site is www.curtisshelburne.com. He has served as one of the deans for the Summer Excitement Youth Leadership School, as a member of his local school board, and has been chairman of the Abilene Christian University Visiting Committee for the English Department. In his spare time, he enjoys singing, stained glass crafting, and motorcycle riding.
                Curtis and his wife, Juana, who serves as the Municipal Judge for Muleshoe, Texas, and who holds an honorary but well-deserved doctoral degree in making a wonderful home, have four sons: Christopher (and his wife Shayla), Jeffrey (and his wife Amy), Stephan, and Joshua, and two granddaughters, Brylan and Brenley.

David Langford has served for the past 20 years as a minister with the Quaker Avenue Church of Christ in Lubbock, Texas and the past 9 years serving also as an elder there.  He has received the Ph.D. in Family Therapy from Texas Tech University in Lubbock and is author of a collection of essays entitled,  “A Curse a Cradle and a Cross.” He has also developed a home Bible study curriculum for families entitled, Faith Chronicles:  Telling the Next Generation.