Jungle Tales Conference Speakers

2010 Conference Speakers

Dennis Payne, MD is a medical doctor and an engineer. He is originally from West Virginia where he did his engineering training in a four year technical college and attended medical school at West Virginia University School of Medicine. His post graduate training is in evaluation and management of diseases of the musculoskeletal and immune systems with emphasis on auto-immune diseases. He has been in practice in Hickory, NC for 17 years. He has an intense interest in the complex processes of the development of the human body from conception, cell-to-cell interactions, and the function of the musculoskeletal system. In understanding these remarkable processes, a demonstration of the creative work of the Maker can be seen in the conception and development of each individual.

Dan Breeding began working with animals at the age of 13 on a farm in Illinois. He worked with livestock such as cattle, sheep, hogs and a few horses. He is a graduate of the Moorpark College Exotic Animal Training and Management Program in Ventura, California. Upon graduating from the Exotic Animal Program he began an apprenticeship under an ape trainer at Going Ape in Auburn, California. He maintained and cared for fourteen chimpanzees and one orangutan. During this time Dan also volunteered at a non-profit organization called Wild Things, Wildlife Assemblies. He also occasionally freelanced for Animals In Action of Los Angeles, where he gained experience with an African elephant, Bengal tiger and pygmy hippopotamus. Before the birth of Wild Animal Encounters, Inc., Dan worked for a short time at Silver Springs Attractions. During this short time, he assisted in the catch-up and relocation of twenty-five crocodilians representing 11 species. He also worked with several species of raptors, including a bald and a golden eagle.

website: WildAnimalEncounters.com

Dr. Jobe Martin, a native of Bloomsburg, PA, was a biology major at Bucknell University and a 1966 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh Dental School. After spending two years in the Air Force, he established a private dental practice at NASA in Houston. Jobe and his wife, Jenna Dee, moved to Dallas in 1971 when he assumed a teaching post at the Baylor College of Dentistry. In 1982, he made the decision to enroll at Dallas Theological Seminary. It was during his time at Baylor that he was challenged by some of his students to consider the claims of creation science. He now is widely known for his DVD series, Incredible Creatures That Defy Evolution. They now serve through Biblical Discipleship Ministries, which they founded in 1984.

website: BiblicalDiscipleship.org

Jeff Setzer was born and reared in North Carolina where he attended both public and Christian schools. In 1982, he graduated from Tabernacle Christian School of Hickory, NC and attended Pensacola Christian College in Florida. In 1986, he graduated with a B.A. in Bible, with two summers of youth evangelism with Neighborhood Bible Time. He also worked at the WILDS Christian camp in 1987 and taught fifth grade at Tabernacle Christian School in Hickory, NC the following year. After assisting Evangelist Dave Kistler and pursuing additional studies for a year at Ambassador Baptist College in Shelby, NC, Jeff served for a year at Liberty Baptist Church in Sevierville, TN. While there, he met Heather in an evangelistic meeting at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Hickory, NC. He soon moved back to North Carolina, working various jobs until he and Heather married in December of 1993. Heather attended Tennessee Temple University and Bob Jones University, where she graduated in 1993 with a degree in Elementary Education and a minor in music. After marriage, they served 3 years at Faith Baptist Church in Shelbyville, TN, serving in youth, music, and children's ministry. It was during this time that they heard a creation evangelist for the first time and began to be burdened to reach young people with creation. Later, while traveling with an evangelist, they developed VBS programs using many different resources. As a result of their burden and studies, they changed their ministry name in 2000 from "Youth Bible Crusade" to "Creation Family Ministries," a multi-faceted Biblical education ministry that uses God’s creation to edify and evangelize all ages!

website: CreationFamilyMinistries.org