A Pilgrimage to the Promised Land and Beyond (B&W)

Stephen B. (Steve) Lucas was born and raised in Joliet, IL. He met his wife, Janet, on a blind date in his junior (her freshman) year at the University of Illinois where he earned a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MBA in Finance. They celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2013. They have three sons and 2 grandsons (Minneapolis and Orlando). Steve worked in information technology management for 48 years, with IBM for 25 years in field marketing & systems, application software development management, corporate finance, and executive management internal financial systems. Then he served as Chief Information Officer (CIO) for business units of Spherion and Lockheed Martin, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Chief Operating Officer (COO) for Ithaka Harbors and finally CIO/Account Executive for the New York Blood Center. Retiring in 2011, he now has time to golf weekly with friends and his wife, volunteer at a local hospital, serve as an adjunct professor in business, team teach marriage and relationship courses with his wife and renew his passion for studying Bible prophecy. He completed course work and his Masters thesis at the School of Prophets in 2014 and has continued his studies for a PhD with the first course being the holy land tour reported in this book.