My name is Steven Tammen. I currently work in Warner Robins Georgia as a civilian employee of the AFSC Software Directorate, United States Air Force. My team in particular does full-stack web applications with C# (ASP.NET Core) on the backend and Angular on the frontend. At present, I am an assistant project manager, and help coordinate all the work for a group of ~18 software developers that are split into three separate scrum teams.
I graduated from the University of Georgia in December 2019 with three majors: Computer Science, Ancient Greek, and Classics. I spent the first two years of my college experience (out of a total of 5.5 – that’s what changing your major twice and ending up a triple major does to you) at Georgia Tech studying engineering, before deciding I wanted to learn Ancient Greek in college for the sake of this ministry. Georgia Tech is excellent for engineering, but Ancient Greek is something that it doesn’t even offer – hence why I ended up at UGA. You can see more about me, including things I did in college, in my CV.
The below links represent my effort to document relevant information about myself, like my spiritual background and my qualifications to teach.
Overview
I was fortunate to grow up in a Christian family, but my path to ministry was far from inevitable (or conventional). This page sets out to give a general introduction as to where I came from and how I ended up here. I did try to make it brief, but, well, telling the full story does require some ink. This is probably as close as I’ll ever get to a testimony, if that sort of thing interests you.
Lay Christians should not turn to just anyone in seeking out Bible teaching. Quite to the contrary, since spiritual realities are in truth the most important things in life, arguably, there are few choices one faces more serious than which Bible teacher to listen to. Giving ear to the wrong person can have eternal consequences, either in terms of compromised spiritual reward, or even in terms of lost salvation. Bearing this in mind, this page aims to explain what makes me qualified to put myself forward as a Bible teacher.