Steven Phelps:  

Life Steve Phelps was born on January 26, 1955 in Gainesville, Texas to Ray & Peggy Phelps. He has two older bothers, Dennis and Kenny, both presently living in Texas. He graduated GHS in 1973 where he won the Drama award and was a two year letterman in football and track. On May 18, 1974 he married Sherry Brown. They lived in Gainesville and Kilgore, Texas until he joined the US Army in 1977. After serving three years in the Green Berets Steve and Sherry moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Then after a year of college they moved back to Gainesville where he worked in the oil fields. In 1982 they left hot & muggy Gainesville for Anchorage, Alaska. There Drew (1983) and Cameron (1985) joined Rashelle (1979) and Dustin (1982) as the Phelps' kids. Steve was working as the manager of a fine art frame shop in Anchorage when God called him into full time ministry. He served as youth pastor for the Oceanview Community Church. It was in Alaska Steve began cartooning for magazines. He has been published in almost every major periodical in the USA, including, Better Homes & Gardens, TV Guide, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, National Enquirer, Leadership, Christianity Today and hundreds more. InterVarsity Press published a collection of his cartoons in 1994 called "All God's Children Got Gum In Their Hair!". In 1989 Steve and his young family left Alaska for Sunny California (Santa Maria). Steve was united with his former Pastor (Steve McCoy) and began a new youth group for the First Church of God.  In 1990 Steve & Sherry accepted the call to be senior pastors for Edmonds Church of God just north of Seattle. Their experience there was tremendous and they made many friends as they served for the next five years in the Pacific Northwest. In 1995 they moved to Sherry's home town and became the pastors of First Church of God in Sapulpa, Oklahoma (Tulsa). In November 1998 Steve planted theROCKchurch. While church p...Expand for more