Meet the team behind the mission.
Our team brings experience, compassion, and a shared calling to support ministries across borders.
Chase Turner
PRESIDENT AND CEO
After graduating from FHU in 2006 with a degree in Spanish, Chase began working with Spanish Missions, an online ministry that reaches every Spanish speaking country in the world. Chase and his wife Kristen married in 2006 and have four children (Ellie, Rose, Benjamin and Everett). They live in West Monroe, Louisiana.
Chase loves spending time with his family, traveling, speaking on stress and anxiety, as well as fishing, reading, writing and running.
Zane Perkins
Executive Vice President
Zane is the Executive Vice President of Herald of Truth. He is a 1999 graduate from Sunset International Bible Institute who has spent seventeen years with his wife, Tae, and four children in Santiago, Chile, as part of a church-planting effort through Great Cities Missions. While on the mission field, Zane continued his education, earning a master’s degree in organizational leadership. The Perkins family returned to the United States to be closer to family in 2019. Zane has developed seminars entitled Living in Harmony (marital and/or interpersonal relationships), Rising Above Our Feelings (emotional intelligence and interpersonal relationships), The Marriage Puzzle, Practical Principles in Parenting, and Leadership Development. Additionally, Zane has developed a three-day spiritual renewal retreat to help those in ministry and service deal with burnout. After several years of traveling the country, working with churches in these areas to build up the kingdom and partnership with SIBI. Zane is transitioning to Herald of the Truth as Executive Vice President. His new role will focus on M.E.S.A. (Mission Evangelize Spanish America), providing resources for the Spanish-speaking in the US.
Jenny Lovell
Vice President of Development
After graduating from FHU in 1992 with a BBA in Marketing, Jenny began working in customer service and sales jobs in Nashville. Jake works as a Network Engineer for Tractor Supply Company. Jenny started her fundraising career in higher education at Freed- Hardeman University, and remained there for 11 years, while living in Nashville. While living in Nashville, Jenny worked for Lipscomb University for 9 years before she joined Herald of Truth in 2024.
Jenny and her husband, Jake, married in 1994 and have 2 adult children (Noah, and Hope Faith). Hope is married to Michael Ruiz. They live in Nashville, TN.
Steve Ridgell
Director of Domestic Ministry
He is committed to sharing the good news of Jesus and equipping others to share their faith. He is the author of Can I Tell You a Story? and Followers Making Followers. He has co-authored three books with Tim Archer: Letters from the Lamb, Hope for Life and More Hope for Life.
Steve has a bachelor’s degree from Abilene Christian in Bible and speech and a master’s degree from ACU in restoration history. Steve’s passion and humor make him a popular speaker for lectureships, seminars, retreats and special Sundays. He and his wife, Marsha, have two grown children and five grandchildren. He enjoys hanging out with family and wishes he had time for hunting, fishing and sports.
LeAnn Littlefield
Business Manager
LeAnn Littlefield has been the business manager for the Herald of Truth since 2022. Her background in nonprofit accounting makes her an invaluable asset to all the Herald of Truth does.
Her husband Gary and daughter Emily live in Abilene, TX which is where the home office for the Herald of Truth is located.
Tony Fernandez
missionary
Tony Fernández leads a dynamic church-planting movement in Cuba which averages over 200 baptisms every year. Beginning with three people meeting around a kitchen table, the church in Matanzas province now has 54 congregations meeting regularly.
In addition, thousands of people regularly study the Bible through online studies Tony has helped start with listeners to Herald of Truth’s radio programs.
In 2025, we celebrate 30 years of partnership with Tony in Cuba.
Esteban Valle-García
ambassador to central america
Esteban comes to the Herald of Truth in 2025 as an experienced missionary and ambassador to Central America through the ministry One Kingdom. He is from Nicaragua and has spent his life serving the people of Central America through mission trips, local evangelism and translating.
He has a strong heart for helping others and will now serve as the Director of Online Outreach for the Herald of Truth. He will also be helping provide leadership consultation for our Spanish church planting efforts through MESA.
He and his beautiful family live in West Monroe, LA.
Bruno Valle
MISSIONARY
Bruno Valle leads Herald of Truth’s ministry in Central America. In that role, Bruno coordinates our campaigns and leadership training throughout Latin America, oversees the printing and distribution of Herald of Truth literature in Central America, and co-hosts the Lea La Biblia radio program with Tim Archer.
Bruno has authored numerous books in Spanish and has a popular You Tube channel which focuses on preparing ministers in the area of preaching.
Bruno teaches several courses each year at the Biblical Institute of Central America in Progreso, Honduras.