Eric Owens

Eric Owens was born and reared in Rockford, IL. He joined the United States Marine Corps and served in the First Gulf War (1988-1992). After being honorably discharged he attended the Memphis School of Preaching,an intense 2 year preacher training school in Memphis TN. After graduation he returned to Rockford and preached in the congregation in which he was reared for about three years. In 1997 he and his family moved to Georgia and began working with the Avondale church of Christ in Decatur where he continues to labor. Eric serves as the pulpit minister and one of the elders.

Eric's first book "So You Want To Be Happy" exposes and explains the problems with prosperity preaching and why it has failed. It also explains where true happiness is and how those in Christ can have it.