Freddie and Mary Gaye Steel are founding / senior pastors of Life Church of Chicagoland (Church of God-TN), a Charismatic/Pentecostal church started in 2000.
The Steels were born and raised in West Virginia and came to Chicagoland in 1998 as Sr. Associate Pastors at the historic Stone Church Assembly of God.
The Steel's have a rich spiritual heritage with ancestors in the ministry dating back to the late 1500's with Freddie's Great Grandfathers, Rev. Dr. William Delaune and Dr. Gideon DeLaune.
Freddie's earliest Steel ancestor reached the Colonies of America in the early 1700's from Ireland to plant churches and train young men for the ministry. It was his 6th Great Grandfather, Rev. Captain John Steel.
Their parents were active in the Healing Revival Movement of the 1940's and were also successful Church planters, evangelists and great musicians and vocalists.
