About Us

Lou Mancari is currently the Director of Pastoral Care of Gospelink Missions, where he has served since 2003. He helps to oversee hundreds of national preachers in Africa and India and has preached on five continents and in twelve different countries. Formerly, Lou helped to plant and pastor two churches, one in New York City and one in rural central Pennsylvania, and while attending Bible college he worked in outreach ministry with street gangs in South Chicago (1980–85). Lou has diligently studied and taught the Bible since 1980 through the pulpit, the pen, and through his personal life.

As a young man Lou was co-captain and quarterback of his state championship high school football team in Delaware. Lou quarterbacked and captained his state high school all-star team 1973 and played quarterback at the University of Connecticut from 1973–76, one of the first freshmen ever to play varsity football in the NCAA.

He and his wife Iris have four children, Amber, Becca, Christal, and Luke. Their oldest daughter, Amber, is married and serves with her husband, Jared, on the mission field in India.

In December 2007 Spirit Illustrated was birthed out of Lou’s passion to teach solid Bible truths using illustrations from our culture. His first book, Autopsy of a Dead Church: CSI—Church Status Investigation, used a popular TV theme to deal with thechallenges of the contemporary church in America. His other books both illustrate God’s Word from the world of football: a Bible study called NFL: New Foundation League and a devotional called First and Ten: Giving God the First Ten Minutes of Every Day. The lastest book presented by Spirit Illustrated is mainly authored by Dean Kershner and is titled Step Up and Dig In. This is a devotional using the world of baseball to illustrate Bible truth.