Nathan & Lacey Steel are purveyors of relational healing, wholeness, and discipleship. They are also parents of two adopted homeschoolers, and consumers of strong coffee. They started Cultivate Relationships to encourage and equip people to enjoy life no matter what and live connected to God and others. It was inspired by their own journey to relational wholeness — from isolation and anger to living connected.
Nathan struggled with a deep-rooted bitterness toward his dad, an inability to share his feelings, and a 20-year addiction to pornography. Lacey struggled with a fear that fed her explosive anger producing a need to control people and circumstances.
Nathan was born in Homer, Alaska with a genetic disease called cystic fibrosis (CF). This led his family to eventually move to Wisconsin where he spent most of his formative years being cared for at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. After high school — and shifting his focus from working in Special Effects in Hollywood to full-time ministry — he moved back to Alaska to attend ministry school.
Nathan was born in Homer, Alaska with a genetic disease called cystic fibrosis (CF). This led his family to eventually move to Wisconsin where he spent most of his formative years being cared for at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. After high school — and shifting his focus from working in Special Effects in Hollywood to full-time ministry — he moved back to Alaska to attend ministry school.
Lacey was born and raised near Grand Rapids, Michigan. After high school, she traded her desire for politics for a passion to serve Jesus full-time. In 2002, she moved to Alaska to attended ministry school. During this time, they discovered that they had a mutual love for Jesus and coffee. So, in 2004 they got married.
During their first year of marriage they also discovered all the emotional and mental baggage they had from their childhoods. They eventually made the decision to abandon their dream of ministry to pursue healing their marriage. Unfortunately, this pursuit moved them away from friends and family to a new community in a new city.
Achieving wholeness in their marriage took over eight years (and counting) and eventually led to the adoption of their two girls, Lydia and Arianna.
They were finally able to pursue their dream of full-time ministry by becoming full-time, donor-supported missionaries at Alaska Bible Institute in Homer, Alaska. It was at this school that they developed and taught the Christian Living Course — a curriculum based on the healing, wholeness, and discipleship in Jesus that they had experienced. During this time, they saw students set free from life-long bitterness, reunited with estranged family members, and freed from childhood traumatic experiences.
It was from this life-changing experience that God gave them the desire to move beyond the classroom — to expand what they had developed and give it away. So, in 2017, their family moved to Texas and launched Cultivate Relationships, LLC., a ministry that provides healing, wholeness, and discipleship in Jesus to people who desire to better hear the voice of God and live empowered by the Holy Spirit so that they may enjoy life and live connected.
Achieving wholeness in their marriage took over eight years (and counting) and eventually led to the adoption of their two girls, Lydia and Arianna.
They were finally able to pursue their dream of full-time ministry by becoming full-time, donor-supported missionaries at Alaska Bible Institute in Homer, Alaska. It was at this school that they developed and taught the Christian Living Course — a curriculum based on the healing, wholeness, and discipleship in Jesus that they had experienced. During this time, they saw students set free from life-long bitterness, reunited with estranged family members, and freed from childhood traumatic experiences.
It was from this life-changing experience that God gave them the desire to move beyond the classroom — to expand what they had developed and give it away. So, in 2017, their family moved to Texas and launched Cultivate Relationships, LLC., a ministry that provides healing, wholeness, and discipleship in Jesus to people who desire to better hear the voice of God and live empowered by the Holy Spirit so that they may enjoy life and live connected.
Their ministry, Cultivate Relationships, is about joy, good coffee*, happiness, light sarcasm, and healthy relationships. But most importantly, they strive to equip you to better hear God's voice and live empowered by the Holy Spirit in your circumstances and relationships.