About The Author
Ronn Read grew up in Kansas but has lived ‘from coast to coast’. He attended John Brown University on a baseball scholarship, then transferred to Kansas State University where he accepted Christ through Campus Crusade ministries. He met and married Janie at this same time, and they moved to Lynchburg, Virginia, where Ronn played baseball and graduated from Liberty University, then coached baseball at Liberty while finishing his Master of Divinity work at Liberty Theological Seminary.
They moved to Quincy, Illinois to start a church, and Ronn completed his Doctoral work in Family and Marriage Counseling at that time. Ronn has served as a senior pastor for 30 years in Quincy, Milwaukee, and Tacoma, Washington, as well as the Executive Pastor of Spiritual Development at Yosemite Church in Merced California. During that time he also served as a church health consultant in Moraga, California. He is in his fifth year as Senior Pastor at Alpine Chapel in Lake Zurich, Illinois. His goal is to challenge every believer to develop a Biblical worldview and to bring out the best in every Christian that we might reveal the reality of Christ in all we do.
Ronn and Janie have five children - Terra and Ben, and their daughters Kealey, Karissa, Kaylen and Kendall; Josh and Becca, their daughters Evah and Asher and son Josh; Daniel and Lindsy; Noelle and Nate and their son Aidan and twins Leah and Elijah; and Benjamin, as well as a lab named Max, a Scotty named Maggie, and a cat – (and do cat’s names really matter?)
Ronn’s passion is church health, and his best place to discuss it is on the golf course.