AUTHOR BIO

Throughout his life and career, Bob Ryan shared fires with strong male influences. Bob Ryan is a Viet Nam Veteran serving at 3rd Field Hospital, Saigon in surgery and triage capacities. He remained in medicine after release from the Army until he entered ministry in 1979. He served in pastoral ministry twenty-three years, as an Associational Missionary twelve years and with the NAMB five years. He completed a Doctor of Ministry with Golden Gate (Gateway) Seminary completing a project, “Identifying and Coping with Ministry Burnout” in 1994. In retirement, he continued ministry in a country church developing and mentoring men hungry to understand express God’s purpose through their passions and purpose.