Jean partnered with her husband in youth ministry for 18 years. They also worked in an orphanage in Florida for one year, where God used them to minister to abused, abandoned and neglected children. They have traveled on mission trips to Guatemala, Romania, and Mexico. Jean shares more about some of these experiences in her blog at: http://jbu_page.blogspot.com/. Jean enjoys writing in her spare time and wrote for a Christian on-line magazine for one year.

Ed and Jean currently Pastor a growing church in their home town of Allen Park, Michigan called "Ark Ministries." Jean has a heart to minister to women. God has gifted her in the area of prophetic song and worship. It is her hearts desire to see women set-free and strengthened to step out in the areas God has called them. God has used Jean on several occasions to pray over barren women and God has miraculously touched and healed them.

"I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know Him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and His incomparably great power for us who believe..."
Ephesians 1:17-19 (NIV)