Steve Swayne is currently Director of St. Francis Springs Prayer Center, a role he started in January 2020.  Over the course of his life he has traversed the for-profit and non-profit sectors.  He currently owns 3 businesses - a social media marketing company, a landscape company and a construction cleaning company. 

Before these ventures, Steve was Director of StepUp Ministry for 9 years.  StepUp teaches job and life skills to unemployed people in Raleigh, Greensboro, Wilmington and Durham, NC and places over 700 adults annually in employment.  In those 9 years he helped StepUp grow from a $300,000 non-profit to a $4M non-profit.  Before StepUp, he ran and sold a publishing company called By Design Publishing from 2004-2008.  From 2000-2004, he operated a Young Life camp in Central Oregon and from 1992-1999 he worked in the NBA as a Marketing/Community Relations Director for 2 NBA basketball teams. 

Steve graduated from Claremont McKenna College in 1992. Steve resides in Raleigh with his wife, Laura and their 4 children.