Stephen Arterburn

Stephen Arterburn is the Founder and Chairman of New Life Ministries—the nation's largest faith-based broadcast, counseling, and treatment ministry—and is the host of the New Life Live! broadcast.

Stephen Arterburn’s first book Hooked On Life was published in 1984. He has become a New York Times Bestselling and Award-Winning author with more than 15,000,000 books in print, receiving four ECPA Gold Medallion, “Book of the Year” awards for quality and impact.

The Every Man’s Battle series won two of those awards and has sold over 4,000,000 copies. Stephen’s publications have also been awarded one Bronze, two Gold and two Platinum ECPA sales awards.

His most recent Gold Medallion win was 2020 in the Youth Non-fiction category where his book, Kirby McCook and the Jesus Chronicles was chosen Book of the Year.

Stephen Arterburn is a respected innovator dedicated to helping transform lives with God’s truth all over the world. In 1988 Arterburn founded New Life Treatment Centers, a venture-capital funded organization providing Christian psychiatric and addiction treatment in secular psychiatric hospitals.

Because of the impact, growth and profitability of this organization Stephen was award the Socially Responsible Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst and Young, Merrill Lynch and Inc. Magazine.

Steve also founded the Women of Faith conferences attended by over five million women. He serves as the Teaching Pastor of one of the largest churches in America, Northview Church in Carmel, Indiana where he resides with his family.