About Us

We are the Wheeler family from the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, area.

The Wheeler Family after the 2003 Spring Concert

Jeff and Lu met at church in Cedar Rapids in 1985 and were married in 1986. We have two children who have been educated at home. One is still being taught at home, and the other is now attending Coe College.

Jeff grew up in Oklahoma and graduated from the University of Missouri - Rolla with a degree in electrical engineering in 1984. After working for a large company in Cedar Rapids for nearly five years, he joined Parsons Technology, a very small software company at the time, in 1989. During his nearly ten years at Parsons Technology, he contributed to the development of QuickVerse, a popular software product that put the Bible on the computer, and other church- and Bible-related products. (For more information on this history of QuickVerse and Parsons Technology, visit the personal website of Craig Rairdin, creator of QuickVerse.) Jeff is now affiliated with Laridian, a new company that publishes Bible-related products for handheld computers. He works from a home office and is able to spend more time with his family. You can help perpetuate this lifestyle by buying Bible software for your Pocket PC computer or Palm Computing Connected Organizer from Laridian!

Lu was born in Iowa but grew up in Cannon Falls, Minnesota. She graduated from Drake University in 1985. She is a registered pharmacist in the state of Iowa. She practiced pharmacy at a local hospital until our first child was born, when she became a stay-at-home mother.Now she is the primary teacher of our children, and enjoys it very much. Lu enjoys finding and reading good books, and has helped us all become more avid readers.

Our children have been educated at home (aka: homeschooled) since our oldest child was ready to enter first grade. There are several advantages of educating your children at home including a better education, an improved opportunity to reach the heart of the child, and protecting their minds from the filth that pervades a fallen society. One of the more obvious advantages and testimonies of home education for our family has been this: our children like each other. They do not criticize each other, compete with each other, or think that the other one isn’t cool. Instead, they play with each other, do projects with each other, and include each other in activities with other friends.Don’t get me wrong; they’re not perfect. But what a testimony when they love each other and act like it, too!

In May 1999, we added a dog to our family. Lu and the kids went to a farm one afternoon and came back excited about the cute, cute puppies that they’d seen. Well, we’d tried dogs before, mostly at Jeff’s request. But this time the other three were excited and Jeff wasn’t. So, now we have a dog by the name of Shep. He's a pretty good dog, though he dislikes UPS and FedEx trucks. He'll hear them a block away and bark at them until he's scared them away.

We are active in a local evangelical church, and have been involved in additional ministry opportunities such as the local homeschool group, a choir for homeschooled students, and leading worship at a local care facility and a home for women.

No biographical information is complete without some photographs.

Family Picture This photo was taken at a wedding that we attended in December, 1998. Lu doesn’t always wear glasses and Jeff doesn’t always wear bow ties... plus, we aren’t so fuzzy in real life! However, this will give you an idea of what our fair family looks like.

Funny Picture What better to follow a family picture than a funny picture? Following one of our home church gatherings last year, this picture was taken. We didn’t know it was funny until the photo came back from the developer.

The photo above was taken at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri.

Thanks for coming to our small home on the web. We hope you enjoy it!

May the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be pleasing to you, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.
Psalm 19:14 (NLT)

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