Neal Carlson lives with his wife Nancy, of 46 years, in a small seacoast town in Central California, USA called Cayucos. The town, is some 2,000 in population and is located on Hwy 1 between Monterey and San Luis Obispo. That area is roughly half way between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, April 27, l934 and at age 9 moved with his parents to the southern state of Louisiana where he was raised in the city of Shreveport. He graduated from Byrd High School there in 1952.

He holds a B.A. degree from Louisiana College (1956), a Master of Divinity from the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (1960) and a Doctorate from California Graduate School of Theology (1971).

At age 19 he responded to the call from God to the ministry and within months was called to his first church as pastor, the Jacoby Baptist Church, Lettsworth, Louisiana. He celebrated 50 years in the ministry, April, 2003.

At the graduate school in New Orleans, l958, he met his wife to be, NANCY JANE DuBOIS from Kirkwood, (St. Louis) Missouri. She was working on her Masters in religious education.

Together they pastored:

• Bridge City Baptist Church - greater New Orleans, La.
• First Baptist Church - Plano, Illinois
• Beverly Hills Baptist Church - greater Detroit, Michigan
• American Baptist Church - Ridgecrest, California
• Alvarado Baptist Church - San Diego, California

And 28 1/2 years - COMMUNITY CHURCH FELLOWSHIP
King City, California until December 31, 2000.

Currently he is president of FOUNDATION FOR LIVING, Inc. which he founded in 1972 and pastor of THE CHURCH IN THE SON (the internet ministry)

They have 5 grown children; Robyn Lynn, Kenneth Neal, Darrin Neal, Bryan Neal, and Jody Lynn, all who live in the coastal town of Cayucos, California.

They have 12 grandchildren

In an attempt to expand the ministry of Foundation for Living, in 1997 a piece of cyber-turf was opened to the world called
WORDS FOR COURAGEOUS LIVING.