3ABN PRESIDENT MARRIED

Danny Shelton, 54, president of the Three Angels Broadcasting Network (3ABN), a television and radio outlet with strong ties to the Seventh-day Adventist Church, married Brandy Lynn Elswick, 33, on Wednesday, March 8, in a brief ceremony that took place on the 3ABN compound in West Frankfort, Illinois. Mr. Shelton and his previous wife, Linda Shelton, were divorced in June 2004 in an action filed in Guam, Micronesia. A posting on “Linda Shelton’s Official Web Site” (lindashelton.org) states that “For over one year my attorneys have been contesting the validity of the Guam divorce. Dan's attorneys have been seeking to attest the validity of this divorce. This divorce was just recently validated by the court.”

In an interview with Adventist Today, Mr. Shelton also stated that the divorce action is final. If it were not final, he stated that he would not have been able to secure a marriage license. According to a clerk in the Office of the County Clerk of Franklin County, Illinois, the county within which the 3ABN headquarters are located, the marriage license to Mr. Shelton and Ms. Elswick was issued on March 7, 2006, one day before the wedding. This is a third marriage for both. Ms. Elswick is a recent convert to the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Mr. Shelton spoke on the telephone with an Adventist Today representative to confirm and correct several aspects of this story.