About the Author

Joseph D. Perry was a Senior Pastor for twelve years before retiring to go into full time writing. After being ordained and licensed with the Church of God in Christ, Perry worked as a youth minister in Los Angeles. There he witnessed many of the young children who did not know how to read or write, and learning as well there was an alarming school dropout rate. Determined to fight for change, Perry created the Non-Profit organization “Boys2Men Girls2Women Foundation” in 2000 which is still in operation today. The mission of the organization is to keep children in school, out of gangs, off drugs, and prevent teen pregnancy.

In 2004, Perry felt God call and challenge him to start a church named San Joaquin Valley Bible Church. Therefore for four years after launching the Boys2MEN Girls2Women organization, the foundation would meet the children’s physical needs while the Church would meet their spiritual needs.

During Perry’s 12 years of pastoring he noticed that even the most basic materials were often still too spiritually advanced for new believers. Perry felt God urge him and then called him to create and write spiritual curriculum and study guides at a level that anyone could comprehend. He began writing specialized and tailor made curriculum for what he called “embryos in Christ”.  After over a decade of pastoring, Mr. Perry retired to focus on full time writing as God has called him to take this curriculum and translate it into many languages so it can be utilized in many countries around the world. “We’ve got to increase the spiritual maturity level of the world, and we must do it drastically”, says Perry.

He then realized that the Bible study and Sunday school curriculum on the market, although basic, was still too advanced for his newly converted followers, in which many had never in life attended a church. He began writing specialized and tailor-made curriculum for what he called embryos in Christ. He believes a babe in Christ is different from an embryo in Christ. An embryo is an unborn or unhatched offspring that is in the process of development. They are even more elementary than babes. The majority of the curriculum he found was written to babes in Christ and felt God’s urging to create and write spiritual embryonic curriculum and study guides. Perry created one chapter at a time and taught it.

It took ten years to write, develop, teach, and rewrite the First Edition First Steps – New Believers Training Kit study guide to what he thought was simply for the few sheep God had placed into his fold. God had bigger plans. He retired as a pastor after twelve years to focus on full-time writing as God has called him to take this curriculum and translate it into many languages so it can be utilized in many countries around the world. The Second Edition First Steps – Believers Training Kit, along with his other writings and corresponding videos, is what he devotes his life to. “We’ve got to increase the spiritual maturity level of the world, and we must do it drastically,” says Perry.