Joe Ardis Horn

Joe Horn is the CEO, Chair, and President of SkyWatchTV, where he also serves as the host of its groundbreaking programming. An award-winning film producer, Joe has created numerous acclaimed documentaries that inspire and educate audiences worldwide. He is a bestselling author of influential works including Timebomb, Unlocking Eden, and Everyday Champions. In addition to his media accomplishments, Joe is a board-certified holistic health practitioner dedicated to promoting wellness and healthy living. A passionate child advocate, Joe works tirelessly to support the mission of rehabilitation for children who have experienced abuse, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to making a positive impact on the lives of the most vulnerable.

The Founder of SkyWatch TV- Dr. Thomas R. Horn

Long time television and radio personality, author of dozens of best-selling books and publisher of many others, Thomas Horn, serves as the Chief Executive Officer of SkyWatchTV. At the dawn of the Internet, Horn launched two news services where coverage of latest-breaking news and information on cutting-edge stories covering religion, prophecy, discovery, and the supernatural through in-depth investigative reports led to his network of writers being referenced and interviewed by the biggest names in broadcasting, including: LA Times Syndicate, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX, Time, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, BBC, MSNBC, Michael Savage, SciFi Channel, History Channel, Hannity & Colmes, Sid Roth’s “It’s Supernatural”, The Jim Bakker Show,  Celebration Daystar TV, FaithTV, The Harvest Show, The 700 Club, Coast to Coast AM, WorldNetDaily, NewsMax.com, White House Correspondents, and dozens of other newsmagazines and press agencies around the globe. SkyWatchTV is the consummation and new “mothership” of Tom’s several subsidiaries including Defender Films and Defender Publishing.

Derek P. Gilbert

Derek Gilbert’s broadcasting career dates back to 1980 in Galesburg, Illinois, and included stops in Peoria, Little Rock, Saint Louis, Philadelphia, and suburban Chicago. With the advent of the Internet, he began producing and hosting the web radio programs A View From the Bunker and P.I.D. Radio, which he co-hosts with his wife, author and analyst Sharon K. Gilbert — also a member of the SkyWatchTV team.

Derek and Sharon co-host SciFriday, a weekly look at science and technology through a Christian lens, and Unraveling Revelation (beginning July 2019), a discussion of theology and geopolitics related to end times prophecy.

He’s authored the groundbreaking books Last Clash of the Titans: The Prophesied War Between Jesus Christ and the Gods and Antiquity and The Great Inception: Satan’s PSYOPs from Eden to Armageddon. His new book, Bad Moon Rising: Islam, Armageddon, and the Most Diabolical Double-Cross in History, will be published in the summer of 2019.

Derek is also a contributing author to Saboteurs, The Milieu: Welcome to the Transhuman Resistance, The Final Roman Emperor, God’s Ghostbusters, Blood on the Altar, I Predict, and When Once We Were a Nation. He’s a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan, prefers glasses to contacts, and sings the high part in gospel and barbershop quartets.

Donna Howell

Donna Howell is a bestselling author, speaker, and biblical researcher known for her passionate dedication to breaking down Scripture to its original meaning and making it accessible for modern audiences. She serves as the Managing Editor at Defender Publishing and is a prominent panelist and contributor to SkyWatchTV, where she shares her deep insights on faith, theology, and current events.

Our Mission Statement:

WHEREAS, it is the express purpose of the Great Commission of the New Testament Church to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ and his teachings to all the nations of the world through local and foreign ministry, missionary work, and evangelism for the purpose of constituting the Body or Church of our Lord Jesus Christ, built and established upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the Chief Cornerstone;

WHEREAS, Bible prophecy and “signs of the times” are integral to the preaching of the Gospel and will be fulfilled at the Second Coming of Christ; and,

WHEREAS, God ordained that His Universal Church be enjoined in the observation of end-times signs as part of study, counsel and instruction for the work of the ministry and for the exercise of those spiritual gifts and offices provided for in the New Testament;

WHEREAS, the Bible specifically connects interpersonal ministry as integral to the mission of the Gospel including feeding and clothing the poor and ministering to widows and orphans, SkyWatch TV operates the Whispering Ponies Ranch where children from Foster Care can experience weeklong Royal Family Kids Camps, Teen Reach Camps, and associated camp and conference ministries;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that this corporation is formed exclusively for religious purposes, to
propagate the Gospel of Jesus Christ, in accordance with the Holy Bible, in customs and traditions of Evangelical Christianity, as an administrative unit of and a constituent division amenable to Sky WatchTV, a Missouri Nonprofit Corporation.

Our Purpose:

The purpose of the nonprofit shall be to create, develop, and distribute original television programming and related materials that stimulate, encourage, and facilitate serious study of the Bible as the inerrant Word of God focused on edifying and instructing an international audience, as well as the Whispering Ponies Ranch to carry out its purpose, the nonprofit shall:

1. Provide weekly and daily television programming and analysis.
2. Conduct annual summer camps for children and adults.
3. Work in conjunction with Bible teachers, church leaders, and academics in the analysis of world events in light of Scripture.
4. Accept donations, solicit and raise money for the foregoing purposes. The Fund will provide interested persons or businesses with an opportunity to make tax deductible bequests, memorial contributions and other gifts.

We believe:

1. That the Bible is the literal, divinely-inspired and complete Word of God
2. In one God, creator of all things, eternally existing in three Persons.
3. That Jesus Christ was and is true God and true man.
4. That Jesus Christ was born of the virgin Mary by the action of God’s Holy Spirit.
5. That God, through the ministry of the Holy Spirit, is active in the world today, convicting and regenerating man, to the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.
6. That the true church is comprised of all such persons who have been regenerated (born again).
7. That man was created in the image of God, but fell into sin, and requires a redeemer.
8. That the shed blood of Jesus Christ provides the only means of salvation.
9. In the imminent second coming of Jesus Christ.
10. In the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ and the bodily resurrection of those who die in Him.
11. That water baptism and the Lord’s Supper are ordinances to be observed.
12. That Jesus Christ is the head of the local church.