Jentezen Franklin is a New York Times best-selling author and the senior pastor of Free Chapel in Gainesville, Georgia, and Irvine, California, a nondenominational church with nine thousand members. He is also founder of the Kingdom Connection Media Ministry, which includes international television and publishing ministries that have served the Christian community for more than thirteen years. Kingdom Connection is broadcast internationally on networks such as TBN, Daystar, and local broadcast stations in the United States.