6 Steps Forward: Every Man Matters

Mark Trever is a typical man driven by contrasts—joy and pain, freedom and obligation, death and life. His world is filled with challenges: A tattooed giant. An overbearing set of in-laws. An overlooked family. A life-threatening disease. A hobby that restores one relationship and births another.

Mark presses on, but nearly misses life’s essential reward. He discovers, almost too late, the critical secret. Let his story give you courage to take your own steps forward and dare others to realize their legacy.

Alan Hoffler has used his gift of teaching as a public high school teacher and coach, a college instructor, a corporate trainer, and a long-time Sunday School teacher. He left the corporate world and started his own business in 2008 to use his passion for teaching to help others communicate more effectively. He is a licensed commercial pilot, an avid college football fan, a youth sports advocate, and a hobbyist photographer. He and Haley, his wife of 17 years, thoroughly enjoy the most challenging of all teaching endeavors-their two children.

Dr. Eric Hoffler received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Florida before completing his pediatric training at the Medical College of Virginia, and has practiced general pediatrics for 24 years in Fayetteville, Georgia. He and Cheryl, his wife of 29 years, have five adult children. He is active as an elder in his church and has participated in over 30 medical missions trips in ten different countries. Influenced by a great mentor from his high school church youth group, Eric has taught and led youth and adult groups locally and abroad. In addition to his family, Eric enjoys photography, gardening, travel (he's been to all 50 states and 27 countries!), hunting, classical music, and chocolate.