Ron is blessed beyond measure to be married to Nan. By the grace of God, since 1986 they have partnered together in marriage, parenting, and ministry.
Ron is Founder and President of As For Me And My House Ministries, LLC (the parent ministry of Successful Stepfamilies) which provides marriage and family training and family ministry consultation to church leaders (for more visit www.RonDeal.org). Nan serves as Vice President of Ministry Outreach for Successful Stepfamilies and is a freelance voice talent.
Ron is author of the critically acclaimed Stepfamily Resource Library including the Amazon.com bestselling book The Smart Stepfamily: Seven Steps to a Healthy Family and DVD series, The Smart Stepmom, coauthored with Laura Petherbridge, and The Remarriage Checkup: Tools to Help Your Marriage Last a Lifetime, coauthored with Dr. David Olson. A former Stepfamily Educational Consultant to Focus on the Family, Ron is a member of the Stepfamily Expert Council for the NationalStepfamilyResourceCenter. He is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor with 20 years experience in full-time local church ministry.
Ron served as a member of the Couple Checkup Research Team (headed by Dr. David Olson, Life Innovations) which conducted the two largest studies of marriage ever accomplished. They surveyed over 100,000 marriages and remarriages (over 200,000 people) and examined the qualitative differences between highly satisfied marriages and low-quality marriages. The results of their groundbreaking research for couples are published in the books The Couple Checkup (Olson, Larson, & Olson-Sigg, 2008) and The Remarriage Checkup (Deal & Olson, 2010), and is featured in Ron’s newest seminar for dating, engaged, married, and remarried couples—the Couple Checkup Conference.
Ron is a popular conference speaker and has appeared in dozens of national radio and TV broadcasts both in the US and Canada and his work with stepfamilies has been covered by newspapers throughout the country. Ron welcomes media interviews. He has written feature family and ministry articles addressing a variety of family matters for a number of publications and online magazines including Focus on the Family magazine, ParentLife, The Family Room, and Christianity Today. He also writes a monthly feature article in HomeLife magazine.
On a regular basis Ron trains therapists, marriage educators, and ministry professionals at conferences like Smart Marriages, the American Association of Christian Counselors World Conference, and the Association of Marriage & Family Ministries conferences. He has spoken at the National Stepfamily Conference, and the Utah and Arkansas Governors' conferences on the family. Ron and Nan have three boys. Their middle son Connor died unexpectedly in February, 2009 at the age of 12. They would be honored if you would view his videos here.
What others are saying about Ron Deal and Successful Stepfamilies:
"Ron is an excellent presenter and his book The Smart Stepfamily is the most helpful book I know on this topic. I highly recommend this ministry."
Dr. Gary Chapman
Best selling author of The Five Love Languages
"Ron Deal is a true minister to stepfamilies."
Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott
Authors and Conference Speakers
best-selling authors of Saving Your Marriage Before it Starts
"Ron is one of the foremost Christian authorities on stepfamilies."
Dr. Bill Maier
Vice President, Resident Psychologist
Focus on the Family
"Ron Deal is the 'go-to' guy in America today for helping stepfamilies."
Dr. Gary Rosberg
Co-Founder, America's Family Coaches
Co-author of the award winning book Divorce-Proof Your Marriage
"Ron Deal has, by far, the best material available on stepfamilies."
H. Norman Wright Author of more than 70 books on the family
