Author
Shannon Steuerwald and her husband Steve serve at Ironwood, a year-round Christian camp located in Newberry Springs, California. Together they have served in children’s and youth ministries for over eighteen years. Shannon is active in the youth and women’s ministries in her local church. She and Steve have three children.
An avid reader, Shannon’s love for good literature transformed into a love for writing. Desiring to influence and to encourage, Shannon began to write articles for education journals and women’s ministry publications, develop speeches and dramatic productions for school events, write Bible studies for ladies’ retreats, and write a devotional (A Proverb a Day Keeps the Naughties Away), children’s book (From Scrawny to Brawny), and Bible study resource book (God’s Treasure System).
Writing has become a tool that God uses in Shannon’s life and ministry to encourage others to know, trust, and obey God more.
Educator
The daughter of Christian educators, Shannon saw firsthand the benefits and hardships of being an educator. Her parents, Walt and Betty Brock, history and elementary teachers respectively, instilled in Shannon a love for learning and sharing knowledge. Her parents lived the principle that education was a treasure to be valued by teaching in the classroom, starting a Christian school, and organizing associations to advance Christian education in California.
Shannon received a bachelor degree in English education at Maranatha Baptist Bible College and has experience teaching at the elementary, secondary, and college levels. Today, she is the principal of Ironwood Christian Academy, where she has served since 1996. She also teaches English and literature classes in the junior high and high school and teaches education workshops at conventions and teacher in-services. If asked what Shannon enjoys most about her job at Ironwood Christian Academy, she will be quick to say that the best part of her job is being able to go to work with her three children.
Because truth cannot be taught apart from God, education has become a tool that God uses in Shannon’s life and ministry to encourage her students and staff to know, trust, and obey God more.
Speaker
Growing up as a “camp worker’s kid” uniquely prepared Shannon for a variety of speaking venues. From performing in a multitude of skits and melodramas to sharing her testimony in churches to preparing devotionals for campers, Shannon was given many opportunities to speak and perform in front of people. Her education prepared her for the more formal side of speaking, and she competed in several speech competitions and sat in many teacher training classes.
Today, Shannon enjoys speaking for women’s events, education and women’s ministry workshops, and family and youth seminars. She and her husband Steve serve together at Ironwood, a Christian camp in southern California, where Steve works in the communications department and Shannon is the principal of Ironwood Christian Academy. Steve and Shannon are members of Faith Baptist Church of Cherokee Road, where they serve as youth leaders and Sunday school teachers.
Speaking has become a tool that God uses in Shannon’s life and ministry to encourage others to know, trust, and obey God more.