About
Stan Lewis is a pastor, author, and photographer ...
He is also a fifth-generation native of Florida and shares his life with his wife, Kristin. They have three daughters - Brittan, Lauren, and Ashlyn and a couple of sons-in-law, but he can’t remember their names. Having grown up near the beach, he greatly loves the mountains and places without any sunburnt tourists who talk funny. His favorite mountains are in Nepal and New Zealand, but in reality, any will do, except the ones in Georgia, which are lame. Stan’s first love is the Lord Jesus Christ, and he has been a follower of Him since September 11, 1984.
Stan attended far too many colleges and institutions of higher learning to list, and in reality, some are far too embarrassing to mention, and others might be embarrassed if they were mentioned.
His professional experience proves he’s not a deadbeat who calls himself a writer just to get out of work and impress softheaded people. He served in the U.S. Navy Chaplain Corps, worked as an adjunct professor, and ministered in various roles in multiple churches across the Southeastern United States. Stan also worked in a frame shop but probably should have been fired because he couldn’t match mat colors for fussy old women. He is passionate about mission work, having worked in nearly thirty countries, smuggled Bibles, trained leaders in open and underground churches, lectured as a guest professor at Christian universities, and eaten some strange things like horse, vegemite, and Canadian bacon, which isn’t even bacon.
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Stan is an introvert by birth and an extrovert by training, which means social occasions annoy and drain him, but he smiles and acts like he enjoys them, as a good Southerner should. He is detail-oriented and doesn’t handle chaos very well. Faith, loyalty, and courage are characteristics he looks for in people whom he studies and associates with, and he has no tolerance for those lacking in those qualities. As his career is very demanding and, at times, draining, silence and solitude are essential in keeping him refreshed. Therefore, he finds peace in the natural beauty of God’s creation by spending time outdoors or by going to a theater playing a Star Wars movie that was written and directed by Rian Johnson because no one will be there.
The hobbies and interests that Stan engages in include traveling, encountering new cultures, photography, woodworking, hiking, science fiction, clay shooting, boating, aviation, and being a booster for the University of West Florida women’s volleyball team. Some books he enjoys are The Pilgrim’s Progress, The Pilgrim’s Regress, military biographies, any book by Adolph Saphir, and his favorite Quantum Realms and String Theories: Navigating the Multidimensional Labyrinth of Nonlocality, Entanglement, and Wave-Particle Duality and the Theoretical Foundations of Subatomic Realities. Stan resides in Crestview, Florida, which is nowhere near the mountains but is about the highest point in Florida. Stan and Kristin also have a feral cat named “Goose,” which is a female, of course.
