The author was raised on a farm in Connecticut and attended a good evangelical church as a child. After college he worked as a teacher in an Eskimo villiage in Alaska where God brought him to full surrender. His German wife opened his eyes to the needs of the world and at age 33 he took his wife and two small sons to the Middle East where they worked in fellowship planting for the next 33 years. He now resides with his wife, Barbara, on the family farm in CT where he writes, teaches and serves as a life coach.