Jeffrey Dean is an Ordained Pastor, National Communicator, and Author. He is the founder of Jeffrey Dean Ministries, whose mission is to equip people to know and grow in Christ more. A 20-year veteran of teen and family ministry, Dean has risen to become an authority on teens and teen culture.With his innate ability to zero in on today's youth culture, Dean connects with teens by speaking their language, understanding their dilemmas, and resonating deep within their hearts on the issues that matter most. With a heart for evangelism and a passion for communicating to both teens and adults, Jeffrey has spoken to more than three million people in churches, conferences, prisons, public and private schools and at music festivals.With his signature style of tackling everyday issues by applying real-life biblical solutions, Jeffrey has spoken at countless evangelistic and secular events, including Creation East, Alive Music Festival, Ichthus Festival, Creation West, The Big Ticket, Lamb Jam and LifeFest Musical Festival. Exuding a unique combination of humility and boldness, Jeffrey confronts topics of relevance for this generation head-on equipping people to realize their purpose and value, align their priorities to God's plans and win in life.Jeffrey has partnered with such popular ministries as Youth for Christ, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Josh McDowell Ministries, Teen Serve Ministry, and many local Boys and Girls Clubs and crisis pregnancy centers across the country. He has also held a position on the Strategic Stakeholders Committee for the Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C., and presently serves on the Advisory Board of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse.A lover of writing, Jeffrey has a column in Forward and Direction Magazines. Additionally, he has written for numerous publications including Horizon Magazine, The Brink, Fusion Magazine and Stand Firm. Jeffrey is the writer of the multi-volume curriculum Flood, published by Serendipity House Publishing, and acclaimed books Between the Lines: One-Liner Wisdom for Today's Guys and Between the Lines: One-Liner Wisdom for Today's Girls, published by Random House Publishing. His latest releases for teens, This Is Me and Watch This, are bold, interactive resources for teen girls and guys, respectively, offering relevant solutions and practical applications to the current issues plaguing them most today, including relationships, parental conflicts, witnessing, dating and more. His most recent release specifically for parents, The Fight Of Your Life, is a shockingly truthful and reassuringly practical book highlighting the "must-know" information every teen influencer needs to help guide and guard this generation.A highly relevant and sought-after communicator, Dean makes his home in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife and their two daughters.