George Whitten is the founder and chief editor of Christian news agency Worthy News, part of Worthy Ministries. Worthy News has been in the top ten Christian News sites since its founding in 1999. He has been living in Israel with his wife and two children for past five years. George Whitten has also been writing for the daily ‘Worthy Devotional‘. Read by tens of thousands of people worldwide, it gives an insight into the driving force behind Worthy Ministries and its flagship news agency Worthy News.
Stefan J. Bos is an award winning journalist and Worthy News’ European bureau chief and international correspondent. Based in Budapest, Hungary, Bos has traveled extensively to cover wars and revolutions throughout Eastern Europe and the Balkans, as well as other countries such as Burma, Canada, Georgia, India, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Laos, Lebanon, Thailand and Turkey for national and international media. He reported for BosNewsLife News Agency, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Voice of America (VOA), Deutsche Welle, CBS-News, Dutch BNR News Radio, Dutch News Agency ANP, Dutch Reformed Daily, Belgium VRT Radio and Television, National Public Radio, Market Place Radio, Vatican Radio, CNN Radio and others. Bos received the Annual Press Award of Merit from the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for his coverage about foreign policy affairs, including Hungary’s relationship with NATO and the European Union. Bos says he was born in Amsterdam next, or near, the old fashioned typewriter of his father, a fellow journalist, who taught him the trade from an early age.
David Haggith is an international correspondent for Worthy News. He is authored the book ‘End-Time Prophecies of the Bible’ published in 1999. Haggith also wrote and produced award-winning radio commercials and has scripted, photographed and produced several multi-media travel shows. He contributed articles for several magazines including The Lutheran, HIS Magazine, Christian Single, Group Magazine, Christian Essence, The Baptist Leader, Christian Educator’s Journal, Church Teachers, Christian Living, The Youth Leader, The Lutheran Layman, The Rocky Mountain Lutheran, Presbyterian Record, New Covenant, The Lutheran Journal, Our Sunday Visitor, P.I.M.E. World (The Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions), Bridal Trends and Today’s Single. He has written news articles and editorial columns for newspapers that included The Belling¬ham Times, The Issaquah Press, Puget Sound Business Journal, The Magnolia News and Queen Anne News, plus a series of feature articles for The Abilene Reporter-News and The Anniston Star, and a five-page spread for The Daily Mail in Britain. Haggith has a Bachelor of Arts from Western Washington University in English/Writing and a certificate in screenwriting from the University of Washington.
Jawad Mazhar is an international correspondent for Worthy News based in Pakistan. He has reported extensively on Christian persecution and other key developments related to terrorism and politics for Christian news agency BosNewsLife, and other media. Mazhar has also covered stories for several rights organizations, including the influential Washington D.C,-based advocacy group International Christian Concern. He has become a key voice for the voiceless in Asia, especially the persecuted church in Pakistan.
Agnes R. Bos is an international correspondent for Worthy News. Since 2000 she extensively covers news from Central and Eastern Europe for the Russian services of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Radio France International (RFI). She is also working as a researcher and producer for several national and international radio and television networks, including the Voice of America, Deutsche Welle Radio and Television, and several other German, Dutch and Belgium broadcasters. She has traveled extensively through the region during historical changes and covered the overthrow of President Slobodan Milosevic in Yugoslavia, his subsequent trial in front of the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague, the expansion of NATO and the European Union. Bos also reported from other parts of the world, including on the civil war in Burma, persecutions of Christians in Laos and recent conflicts in Georgia, Iraq and elsewhere in the world. Bos holds a bachelor degree in Linguistics, Arts and History.
Khristov Exoucia is an international correspondent for Worthy News based in Dallas, Texas. Exoucia has been writing for over 23 years and music for 28 years. He is an American born Sephardi of many talents: writer, composer, producer, arranger; instrumentalist on electric and acoustic guitar, bass, keyboards; vocalist; apologist, teacher, cook, artist, and volunteer. He is a co-founder and original lead guitarist of the modern rock band ‘Seventh Day Slumber’, and was a feature lead guitarist on the album “Spirit Come”. holds a degree from CFNI in Dallas, Texas in Practical Theology and lived outside of the United States in various research and service positions, including in England, Scotland, India, Turkey, Israel, and Mexico.
Avraham Ben Yechiel is Worthy News’ Israel Correspondent based in Jerusalem, Israel. He is a gifted writer for over 25 years. Yechiel has a Bachelor of Arts from Oswego State in New York.
Rodney Drinnen is Worthy News’ award-winning United States Correspondent. He has been writing since he was a child and won several awards for short stories and poetry. He was also an active participant in the Christian Writer’s Guild, which he says attributed to his interest in journalism.
Mary Priddy is our Christian news and human interests correspondent. Based in Huntsville in the U.S. state of Alabama, she a gifted writer with a passion for reporting on human interest stories. And those aspects of life, close to her heart.