Steve is the founder and president of Legacy Educational Resources, providing resources for  teachers of life skills and character education in public schools at www.character-education.info and resources for  youth workers and pastors at www.youth-ministry.info. A self-styled "wisdom broker," he collects wisdom from many fields and packages it for teachers and writers via the Web.

His two Web sites attract over 800 people (sessions) per day, who log on for resources such as lessons, articles, quotes, activities and people stories. He also invests in distressed properties and rehabs them with his wife and seven sons. Steve is a frequent guest lecturer at Kennesaw State University and works with character education at the award-winning Kennesaw Mountain High School.

Steve has invested the bulk of his life in work with young adults. Shortly after the fall of Communism in Czechoslovakia, he moved his family to Slovakia, training youth workers with Reach Out Youth Solutions. After his wife was diagnosed with cancer, he returned to the States with his wife and four boys,  where he began writing resources for Central and Eastern Europe. This grew into a global ministry via the Web. 

Several years after his wife's death, he married Cherie, who was raising three boys of her own. Now with seven boys, from thirteen-year-old twins to twenty-six years, Steve has an intimate knowledge of the problems and possibilities facing today’s young people.

Steve's most recent book (2009) is Enjoy Your Money! How to Make It, Save It, Invest It and Give It. It's truly unique, teaching personal finance in a story form. Find more about it here. His book on music, The Contemporary Christian Music Debate: Worldly Compromise or Agent of Renewal?, was recently reprinted. Find out more about it here. Originally with Tyndale House and Operation Mobilization, it went through  three printings in English and was additionally published in Dutch, Spanish, German, Romanian and Russian. Steve has published numerous articles, over 500 pages of Web-based resources and over 3500 speakers’ illustrations. He's currently writing a series of articles on publishing for the Georgia Writers Association ( http://www.georgiawriters.org  ).

Personal

Steve enjoys spending time with his wife and children, researching and writing (three books in process), volunteering at church, rehabbing foreclosure houses, and taking care of his parents and 103-year-old grandmother. In spare moments he dabbles with guitars and keyboards, hikes mountain trails, snow skis, windsurfs and explores caves.

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"Whenever Steve writes for us, he consistently comes through with exactly what we were looking for. And as a bonus, he takes suggestions well (easy to work with) and delivers ahead of schedule!" (Margaret Garner, Worldwide Discipleship Association)