Eli is the son of an agnostic Jewish father and Lutheran mother. Though raised in a home that fluctuated between spiritual neutrality and antagonism toward Christianity, Christ invaded his life at 18 years old as he was completing Basic Training at Ft. Jackson, SC.

After graduating from seminary, over the years, he served churches in Texas, Florida, Georgia, and Colorado as Student Minister, Education and Outreach Pastor, Church Planter/Lead Pastor, and served for 5 years with a national mission agency. He is a certified Intentional Interim Pastor. Common to all of his ministry experience is a passion for evangelism, strategic planning, and real-world discipleship development.

He has been married for more than 40 years to his wife, Lisa. They have 3 married children and 8 grandchildren.

Solomon's Quest is the culmination of 45 years of God's leading,

research and study, experimentation, training,  as well as having incredible mentors from ministry and business that invested in his life. The result is a transferable, leader-developing, life-changing strategy for small group Bible study and personal evangelism.