Eric is an avid adventurer—having travelled the world, hiking waterfalls in Croatia, swimming with sea turtles in Guam, and scaling active volcanoes in New Zealand—and has seen adventure’s impact on people firsthand, over and over again. Founder of Adventure Experience and member of the National Speaker Association, he now travels the U.S. with his award-winning photos, speaking on the benefits of risk, challenge, and getting outside your “comfort zone.” He also spends way too much time on local rivers and mountains and has finally given up trying to get the smell of wet neoprene out of his car.

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Neatly trimmed nails are nothing a gritty rock face can’t fix, and the contents for any five-day trip worth taking can always fit into a single rucksack. Sam believes in the value of perspective. Whether that’s the ocean floor, free-falling from 13,000 feet, or staring at a wolf through a campfire, there are life lessons and spiritual applications to be learned. After all, the greatest adventure to be lived is in walking in stride with Christ. Sam earned degrees from Northwestern University in youth ministry and biblical studies and has been active in various ministry leadership roles for the last eighteen years. Her passion is to challenge Christians to deepen their faith, speaking truth with transparency, humor and love. An unconventional pastor’s wife and mother of three, should you dare her to jump into an ice cold lake during wintertime, just remember to bring a towel.
You can connect with Sam at lovesamevans.com, on Twitter
at @LoveSamEvans, or on her Facebook group, Love Sam Evans.