Everett grew up in a non-Christian home, and was strongly inculcated in Secular Humanism. In 1971, he surrendered his life to Jesus Christ while an undergraduate in college. He was immediately challenged in his new faith by college professors and an old friend who had just become a Jehovah’s Witness. As a result of his search for the truth, he sensed God’s leading into full time Christian service, emphasizing apologetics.

He has a master’s degree in theology (Fuller Seminary), and has done post-graduate study at California State University, Sacramento, and National University. He is also an ordained pastor (SBC).

After 15 years of professional ministry in churches and Christian schools, Everett founded an apologetics ministry called the Sierra Institute. Two years later, this ministry merged with John Morehead’s American Religion Information Center, and changed its name to TruthQuest Institute. Then, in 1999, when Dick Baer went into semi-retirement, TruthQuest acquired Mr. Baer’s Ex-Mormons and Christian Alliance. At the same time, TruthQuest affiliated with Watchman Fellowship, creating the first WF office “west of the Pecos.” Everett was the director of the California office of Watchman Fellowship for several years

Everett is a contributor to the latest edition of Dr. Walter Martin’s classic work, The Kingdom of the Cults. He has also written a number of articles in the forthcoming Baker Dictionary of Cults. He has been a contributor to The Watchman Expositor and has been published in a number of other periodicals including the International Journal of Frontier Missions and Cultic Studies Journal.

Radio stations and media outlets have used Everett as a source for background information (U. S. News & World Report, NBC’s Dateline, ABC news, The Los Angeles Times, and others). He has been interviewed as an expert on cults on Christian and secular radio stations all over the United States.

Everett has devoted himself to reaching those in cults and new religious movements with the authentic Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Everett has trained local law enforcement officers about the dangers of cults, and teaches in schools and churches all over the western United States equipping Christians to share their faith in an effective and tactful way with members of other religions.

Everett currently serves as an adjunct faculty member at Capital Bible College in Sacramento, teaching systematic theology and apologetics. He is also an Interfaith Witness Associate of the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Mr. Morehead has a Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies at Salt Lake Theological Seminary in Salt Lake City, Utah. His thesis focused on sociological, historical, and ecclesiological aspects related to the Burning Man Festival in Nevada.

Mr. Morehead is a contributing author and editor to several book projects dealing with new religions including Encountering New Religious Movements: A Holistic Evangelical Approach (Kregel, 2004), a book that he co-edited and co-authored. This book won the 2005 Christianity Today Book of the Year Award in the category of missions/global affairs. He has also contributed to the forthcoming The Baker Dictionary of Cults, and editor of a forthcoming dialogue book between Paganism and Christianity through Lion Publishing. He is the co-founder and co-editor of the e-journal Sacred Tribes: Journal of Christian Missions to New Religious Movements. Mr. Morehead has also provided expertise on mission strategy to new religions as unreached people groups with the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization at their meeting in Thailand in 2004. Mr. Morehead has also served as adjunct instructor in new religious movements, theology, and apologetics at Capital Bible College located in Sacramento, California, and is an adjunct instructor at Salt Lake Theological Seminary.