Greg Stier has been the executive director, president and creator of Dare 2 Share Ministries International since 1991. Stier has coached over 30,000 Christian teens across North America in how live your faith with confidence and audacity. In 1997 he was a guest speaker at Youth for Christ's DC/LA events and revisited that speaker at the Fellowship of Christian Athletes' Y2K forum. “Youth ministry became his full-time focus on April 20, 1999, due to the Columbine High School massacre.” Stier wrote published works such as "You're Next!" and “Dare 2 Share: A Guide to Sharing Your Faith (Focus on Family),” as well as several programs on preparing for evangelism. According to Stier, “[he] doesn't come from a church going…from a religious family. His was a tough urban family full of bodybuilders, tobacco chewers, and beer-drinking thugs. He recounts how, apparently, throughout his life (though not that long), his tough, delinquent family was led to Christ in one way or another. The impact Jesus had on his extended family, who knew from the age of 11 that he would become a preacher!” He and his wife Debbie have two children and currently reside in the Denver area. Content Summary What if an epidemic was about everything positive instead of full of the usual negative connotations? What if the epidemic began with a change in a positive direction in church youth groups and seeped into local communities where churches exist? If the epidemic occurs like this, isn't it possible that the world will also be affected by the epidemic? This is the model presented by Steir, and he wants to see these very outbreaks like the ones described... in the center of the paper... this is a concept that should resonate in the minds of adolescents. The title of the book is the same as a movie that is a few years old, yet it applies it to a project established within the early church. To quote Steir, the epidemic “spreads like an epidemic. It infected the population so quickly that no one was safe." With some changes to word choice and phraseology, this is truly a unique way of looking at and considering how to do youth ministry. Bibliography Draper, Electra. “Rough Youth Was a Path to Teen Ministry.” The Denver Post. November 25, 2007. http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_7550860 (accessed April 4, 2011).Stier, Greg. "My story." Greg Stier. 3 April 2006. http://www.gregstier.org/mystory/ (accessed 4 April 2011). Outbreak: Creating a Contagious Youth Ministry Through Viral Evangelism. Chicago, IL: Moody Publishers, 2006.