The Genesis - Revelation TV Team
Howard Conder - Co founder
Howard has had a varied life. Starting off as a drummer in such 60s groups as The Baron Knights and Joe Brown and the Bruvvers, he found himself running his own company in the music business at the age of 23. He was rich, successful but not contented and embarked on a spiritual search at about that time, examining other religions but seeing truth only within the pages of the Bible. In 1982 he married Lesley and, after running a recording studio in Florida, they joined YWAM's Discipleship Training School course. Then, although Howard intended to join their Media team in Texas, the Lord spoke to him through a man of God, indicating that he should go to Eastern Europe instead. Howard was obedient in this and he and Lesley spent some time in Romania. Soon afterwards, Howard felt the Lord stirring up a desire to see quality Christian Television established in the UK. This started to become reality in 1995 and particularly so a couple of years later, when he produced the successful 'Revelation' interview programmes. Then, in 2003, he launched Revelation TV with Lesley and the rest, as they say, is history.
Lesley Conder - Co founder
Lesley has been married to Howard for 26 years. Shortly after they married they moved to Florida in USA and set up a recording studio which became hugely successful and also gave them their first taste of Christian Music. Also, this gave them their first taste of church life where praise and worship replaced hymns and Bible study taught us the significance of actually inviting Jesus into our hearts and being 'born again', a term they were just not used to! They have four lovely children, Luke, Joel, Rebecca and Bethany, all of whom are heavily involved in the running of Genesis and Revelation TV and whose skills vary from Playout operators to schedulers to camera operators to sound operators to programme presenters. They are all dedicated to the vision and work hard to help reach those who need to be fed through music, testimonies, ministry, and talk shows. Lesley works mainly in the office and also handle much of the advertising and sale of airtime as well as viewer response. Her days are long and she often finds it quite a challenge to juggle the demands of family life with the ministry of Genesis and Revelation TV. Lesley says 'It must be through God's Grace that our children are well cared for, fed healthy meals, and live in a nice clean environment!! Revelation TV is not a job for me, it is our life ,and we give our life to The Lord to use us as He so chooses. I still can't understand why God would have chosen such an ordinary family to do such an unordinary task but we have been obedient and carry the vision with enthusiasm and determination!'
Gordon Pettie - Trustee / Presenter
Gordon grew up in Liverpool and worked for the Civil Service before going to Bible College where he met Lorna, who was already a student there. As a child, he went every year, with his family, to the Isle of Man for his summer holidays. There, he found a Scripture Union Beach Mission, were he committed his life to Christ, as an 11 years old. Years later, the Lord led him to join Scripture Union as a Children’s Evangelist, and be in charge of their work in the North of England. In recent years, opportunities have come to service in various means, including being a Trustee of Reinhard Bonnke’s ministry in the UK, Christ for all Nations; Barry and Batya Segals’ ministry, the Joseph Storehouse Trust; and Tommy Tenny’s ministry, the God Chasers Network UK. Gordon is also Trustee of the Revelation Foundation
Lorna Pettie - Trustee / Presenter
Lorna grew up on the Wirral, and found the Lord Jesus as her Saviour, when her sister invited her to a local church Youth Group. Her passion to learn more about her Saviour, led her to become a student at the Birmingham Bible Institute where she met Gordon. As family came along, her time was divided between assisting in the work Gordon was doing, as well as looking after 3 children, (and more latterly 4 grandchildren!) Her gifting is in talking to people about the Lord and nurturing young Christians in their faith, either on a one to one, or in small groups. The Lord has led her into a powerful intercessor and deliverance ministry
Yemi Balogun - Presenter/ Producer
Yemi Balogun is the Presenter of the programme, ‘Church in Focus’. A programme designed to highlight the works of ministries, working hard for the establishment of God’s Kingdom on earth. He is also the producer of a programme called, ‘The Fourth Dimension’. A programme that deals mostly with the supernatural. All on RevelationTv and Genesis TV. Yemi is a man that is totally committed to the advancement of the Kingdom of God on earth. An Evangelist, Pastor, with Apostolic and Prophetic unction, a great expositor of the Word of God and a great encourager. He visits churches regularly sharing the undiluted word of God, without compromise, fear or favour. He runs the Marketing and the advertising department, dealing with organisations that want to have regular programmes or advertise on both channels. He has planted a church and a Prisons ministry in Ghana, to minister to inmates with the hope of setting up a halfway house in future for the total rehabilitation of prisoners who finish serving their sentences, so that the Lord may use the testimonies of their mouths to glorify Himself. The church in Ghana also ministers to orphans, widows and old age pensioners through ministries that minister to them directly. He is married to Sylvia, with three lovely children, Amie, Ayodele and Jaheel.
Don Botham -
UK Director of Operations
Don is a prolific television producer and joined the company with a wealth of ideas for new programmes on Genesis and Revelation TV. His debut programme ‘Up Close and Personal’ is a great chance to hear the inspiring testimonies of those who have had their lives transformed by a relationship with Jesus. As Don says it’s ‘a programme that asks the questions that the viewers always wanted to ask’.
Don grew up in a Christian household in
Cheshire, attending a Methodist youth group and played football for a Church of England team but never experienced a relationship with Jesus and left the Church when he joined the Navy. Many years later when his wife Heather wanted their daughter to attend Sunday School he went along with her to assess the church and ended up hearing Pastor Ron Stidham give a sermon on the importance of being ‘Born Again’. Even though he had a church background he had never been taught this before and was impacted by this and not long after gave his life to Christ and was transformed instantly. Don attended
Liverpool
Bible
College in 1982 - 1984 and then worked for 9 years as a Senior Series Producer for God TV before joining the Genesis – Revelation team in 2008. Don is married to Heather and has two lovely daughters Lisa and Donna.
Terry Quinn - Presenter - Financial Coach
Terry Quinn, a member of the Personal Finance Society by Diploma, believes that it’s time for the Body of Christ to learn the principles of Practical Prosperity relating to Biblical Finances. Terry Quinn has over sixteen years experience in financial planning, which has involved arranging thousands of mortgages, savings plans and investments amounting to over £50 million pounds. Terry is a powerful and gifted communicator and is a graduate of Rhema bible college.
Dr Laura Richardson - Presenter
Dr Laura Richardson BSc MA MBBChir MRCGP Qualified from Cambridge University in 1991 and completed her GP training in 1996. She has worked ever since as a GP (Family Doctor) and has special medical interests in Nutrition and Dietetics, Women's problems, dermatology and psychodynamics. She has been a born-again Christian for over 25 years and has a passion to proclaim and teach God's truth on Biblical health and hygiene.
Zanda Jones - Researcher / Producer / Presenter
Zanda was born in Dulwich, London into a Christian family. She grew up believing in God but had never pursued having a personal relationship with Jesus. At 17years old, Zanda moved out of the family home, after the divorce of her parents, and soon after found that living independently was not as glamorous as she had first thought. After a period off real sadness and desperation, a good friend invited her along to church and several years later Zanda decided to give her heart to Jesus and invited Him in to her life.
Zanda has spent most of her working life supporting the needs of vulnerable children who have been fostered. She began her career at Genesis – Revelation TV as a volunteer researcher for ‘Express Yourself’ and soon became a presenter on the channel, fronting the youth programme Free4all each Thursday. She felt the call of God to leave her job as a Fostering Coordinator and shared this revelation with Lesley who promptly hired her to take the recently vacated position of researcher. Within weeks of taking the position Zanda made a huge impact on Howard with her first documentary on the Holocaust and is now commissioned to carry out other documentary work that Howard has had on his heart for a long time.