huck and Nancy Missler were both raised in Southern California. Chuck demonstrated an aptitude for technical interests as a youth. He became a ham radio operator at age nine and started piloting airplanes as a teenager. While still in high school, Chuck built a digital computer in the family garage.

      His plans to pursue a doctorate in electrical engineering at Stanford University were interrupted when he received a Congressional appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. Graduating with honors, Chuck took his commission in the Air Force. After completing flight training, he met and married Nancy. Chuck joined the Missile Program and eventually became Branch Chief of the Department of Guided Missiles.

      Chuck made the transition from the military to the private sector when he became a systems engineer with TRW, a large aerospace firm. He then went on to serve as a senior analyst with a non-profit think tank where he conducted projects for the intelligence community and the Department of Defense. During that time, Chuck earned a master's degree in engineering at UCLA, supplementing previous graduate work in applied mathematics, advanced statistics and information sciences.

      Recruited into senior management at the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan, Chuck established the first international computer network in 1966. He left Ford to start his own company, a computer network firm that was subsequently acquired by Automatic Data Processing (listed on the New York Stock Exchange) to become its Network Services Division.

      Returning to California, Chuck found himself consulting, organizing corporate development deals, serving on the board of directors at several firms, and specializing in the rescuing of financially troubled technology companies. He brought several companies out of Chapter 11 and into profitable operation. Chuck thrived on this type of work.

      As Chuck notes, his day of reckoning came several years ago when -- as the result of a merger -- he found himself the chairman and a major shareholder of a small, publicly owned development company known as Phoenix Group International. The firm established an $8 billion joint venture with the Soviet Union to supply personal computers to their 143,000 schools. Due to several unforeseen circumstances, the venture failed. The Misslers lost everything, including their home, automobiles and insurance.

      It was during this difficult time that Chuck turned to God and the Bible. As a child he developed an intense interest in the Bible; studying it became a favorite pastime. In the 1970s, while still in the corporate world, Chuck began leading weekly Bible studies at the 30,000-member Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, in California. He and Nancy established Koinonia House in 1973.

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      Chuck had enjoyed a longtime, personal relationship with Hal Lindsey, who upon hearing of Chuck's professional misfortune, convinced him that he could easily succeed as an independent author and speaker. Over the years, Chuck had developed a loyal following. (Through Doug Wetmore, head of the tape ministry of Firefighters for Christ, Chuck learned that over 7 million copies of his taped Bible studies were scattered throughout the world.) Koinonia House then became Chuck's full-time profession.

      Nancy has loved the Lord for almost 50 years. She asked Christ to come into her life in 1957 at Hollywood Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles. That same year, while attending UCLA, Nancy met and married Chuck, an honor graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. After almost 20 years of marriage and four children, they appeared on the "outside" to have it all: challenging careers, beautiful home and family and many of the trappings of an extremely successful lifestyle. On the "inside," however, despite their strong commitment to Christ, events occurred that caused their marriage to fall apart. Nancy attended marriage seminars, read many self-help books and had everyone she knew praying, but nothing seemed to change and they appeared destined for divorce. Before taking such a drastic action, Nancy began to personally search the Scriptures for the answers to her broken heart. As she started practicing what the Lord revealed to her, a sequence of events began that revolutionized their marriage!

      Nancy wrote about the miracle of her healed marriage in her first book, Why Should I Be The First to Change? She followed this with The King's High Way Series : The Way of Agape , Be Ye Transformed and Faith in the Night Seasons . These Bible Study courses cover such topics as: What is God's Love and how is it different from human love? How can we genuinely love the difficult people in our lives? What does it mean, in the practical sense, to be transformed by the renewing of our minds? And, how can we continue to have faith in God when everything in our lives falls apart. These three books are simply a chronology of Nancy's own walk with the Lord-through a broken marriage, through bankruptcy, through a 6.8 earthquake, through the loss of her home, and finally, through the sudden and unexpected death of her first born son, Chip. Each title includes a 350 page textbook, a workbook, an audio series and for group study, a DVD and video series.

      As Nancy began to share the insights from her series, requests began to come in from around the world to speak. Over the past 20-25 years, she has spoken at hundreds of seminars throughout the United States, as well as Europe, Australia, Singapore, Israel, Thailand and New Zealand. She has also appeared many times on national television and given hundreds of radio interviews.

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      One of Nancy's newest endeavors, The Plain and Simple Series , is designed to make the road toward God and a relationship with Him practical-plain and simple. Titles in this series are: The Key : How to Let Go and Let God; The Choice : Hypocrisy or Real Christianity; Against the Tide : Getting Beyond Ourselves; Tomorrow May Be Too Late : Discovering Our Destiny and, Never Give Up : The Fruit of Longsuffering. Her latest series, In His Likeness , includes these titles: Private Worship : The Key to Joy and Reflections of His Image : The Purpose of Your Life .

      For the last 10 years, Nancy also has been involved in a ministry called The King's High Way which produces the above books, including workbooks, videos, audios and DVD's. The King's High Way ministry focuses on the 'practical application' of Biblical principles. The ministry has seven employees, about 25 volunteers and includes a local outreach to the community called The King's Place (a teaching facility, networking and prayer center and counseling offices).

      Besides writing books and working at The King's High Way Ministry everyday, Nancy is a grandmother to seven, four of which live with their parents on her and Chuck's property. She and Chuck travel extensively through their respective ministries and still are enjoying that 'miracle marriage' that God created so many years ago. 2007 is their 50 th anniversary.

      Read the introduction and first chapter of: Why Should I be the First to Change? - which tells the complete story of the "turn around" of Chuck and Nancy's 20 year Christian marriage.

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