Speaker Biographies

Over the years different individuals have provide a voice for the Eternal Good News. 

Each brings the Eternal Good News alive as you listen.

  • George Bryan

    George A. Bryan was born and reared on a farm at Frederick, OK. He attended Weaver School six miles west of Frederick and graduated in 1946.

    He attended Abilene Christian College and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Bible and Speech in 1950.

    He preached for churches of Christ in Texas and Oklahoma from 1948 till 1960. He attended graduate school at North Texas State University and served as graduate assistant.

    He attended the University of Oklahoma and obtained a Master's degree in 1960 and a Ph.D. degree in 1963, both in communication disorders.

    He was the speech-language pathologist at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Oklahoma City from 1963 till 1989. During this time he was adjunct professor of speech pathology at Phillips University and the University of Oklahoma.

    He was a Fullbright scholar to India from 1966 till 1968; he taught speech pathology at Topiwalla National Medical College in Bombay, India.

    He was a member of the church of Christ at 36th and Prospect and Wilshire Boulevard in Oklahoma City from 1962 till 1984.

    After retirement from the Veterans Administration, he preached for the Central Avenue church of Christ in Oklahoma City.

    In 2004, he returned to Wilshire to assist Germaine Lockwood with the shortwave radio broadcasts and continued with Eternal Good News broadcasts until they were discontinued in 2016.

  • Germaine "Jim" Lockwood

    Germaine Charles "Jim" Lockwood

    1930-2004

    Obituary from the Edmond Sun 15 May 2004

    Germaine Charles "Jim" Lockwood was born July 17, 1930 in Grand Haven, Michigan. He went to be with his Lord and Savior on May 11, 2004 while resting at his home in Edmond, Oklahoma.

    Jim was very active and faithful member of the Wilshire Church of Christ to the end of his life. His is survived by: His loving wife Sandra, his daughter Nancy, his son Stephen, and granddaughter Hope, as well as his brother Norman and sister Della. He was preceded in death by his father, Germaine William Lockwood, and his mother Frances Jobin Lockwood of Hersey, Michigan; also, his first wife, Emma Lorene Nance Lockwood, and his oldest son, Philip Germaine Lockwood of Searcy, Arkansas.

    Jim received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University and a Masters degree from the Chrysler Institute of Engineering. He was a practicing Registered Professional Engineer and worked for Chrysler Corporation until he became a full time evangelist. He also received a second Masters degree in Christian Doctrine from Harding University.

    Jim taught for a short time at two Christian colleges. He taught mathematics and pre-engineering courses from 1959-1961 at Michigan Christian College. It was while at Michigan Christian that Jim first became interested in radio evangelism into the iron Curtain Countries.

    Many years later he also taught Russian language studies at Oklahoma Christian for 4 years. He was fluent in both Swedish and Russian.

    Jim was baptized into Christ in 1953, while in graduate school.

    In 1956, while in the army, Jim became acquainted with Jerry Loutzenhiser in Dubuque, Iowa. While there he learned how to teach the gospel. Jim and his family served as missionaries in Sweden from 1961-1968. They left the states with two children but returned with three. Stephen was born to them while in Sweden.

    After returning to the states and completing his education from Harding, Jim served as a personal evangelist in Des Moines, Iowa from 1970-1977.

    He and his family moved to Oklahoma City in 1977. They began working with the Wilshire Church in 1982, which still sponsors his radio evangelism ministry.

    Jim authored a number of articles and books. The Origin of The Cosmos and The Evidences of God is in its third publishing in English as well as its presence on the internet. It is also published in Russian, Romanian, Slovakian, and Chinese. It is with out a doubt the most widely used and distributed work on Christian Evidences among missionaries of the churches of Christ.

    Germaine began preaching the word of God through Russian radio programming with Ivan Kolesnikow in 1971. In 1973, he began plans to build a short-wave radio station in Alaska to broadcast the gospel into the iron curtain countries first then, to the whole world. This project was taken over and brought to fruition by the World Christian Broadcasting Co in 1983.

    In 1991 Jim began an international English radio program called "Eternal Good News" which is currently broadcast worldwide on a large number of short-wave radio stations.