EXPERT ON:
◉ Church & Ministry Leadership
◉ Decision-Making & Emotional Intelligence
◉ Faith in Action
◉ Leadership Development
◉ Team Building & Collaboration
EXPERIENCE:
◉ Apologetics Ministry Leader – Co-founder and President of Midwest Christian Outreach, Inc., leading a national ministry focused on equipping Christians to engage cults and new religious movements since 1987.
◉ Respected Author & Researcher – Co-author of multiple influential books and contributor to leading Christian journals and publications on theology, discernment, and apologetics.
◉ National Media Voice – Frequent guest on radio and television programs, including The John Ankerberg Show, and co-host of the weekly Unknown Webcast, providing trusted insight on faith and cultural issues.
L.L. (Don) Veinot Jr. is co-founder and President of Midwest Christian Outreach, Inc., a national apologetics ministry and mission to new religious movements based in Wonder Lake, IL., with a branch office in Quincy, IL, and Cape Coral, FL. He, along with his wife of over 55 years, Joy, has been involved in discernment ministry as missionaries to cults and New Religious Movements since 1987.
He is a frequent guest on various radio and television broadcasts, including The John Ankerberg Show, as well as being a staff researcher and writer for the Midwest Outreach Journal. He is co-author of Richard Rohr and the Enneagram Secret, A Matter of Basic Principles: Bill Gothard and the Christian Life, and the revised and updated edition of A Matter of Basic Principles: Bill Gothard and His Cultish Teachings.
He is also a contributing author of Preserving Evangelical Unity: Welcoming Diversity in Non-Essentials, as well as articles in the CRI Journal, PFO Quarterly Journal, Campus Life Magazine, Journal of the International Society of Christian Apologetics, Midwestern Journal of Theology, The Christian Post, and other periodicals. He is also co-host of the weekly “Unknown Webcast” on the Midwest Christian Outreach, Inc. YouTube Channel.
He was ordained to the ministry by West Suburban Community Church of Lombard, IL, at the Garden of Gethsemane in Jerusalem, Israel, in March of 1997. Don is a charter member of ISCA (International Society of Christian Apologetics) and is also the current President of Evangelical Missions to Non-Christian Religions (EMNR), a consortium of Counter cult/apologetic ministries and missions to non-Christians.
