After 31 years, Ray Ellis retired from law enforcement and now serves as the Senior Pastor at Passion For Christ Ministries in Meridian, ID. Ray began his career in law enforcement with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department in California in 1989 after serving as a United States Marine. After his start in Southern California, Ray moved his family to Idaho where he served with the Meridian Police Department until his retirement in 2019. Active in the writing and publishing community, Ray’s first novel, "Notorious" a police thriller (previously released as "N.H.I.: No Humans Involved"), was published in 2011 and since then Ray has had four other works released and has been selected as one of Idaho's Top 50 Authors for the year of 2011, a Top 10 Idaho Author in 2012; and the 2014 ACFW, Idaho Chapter Writer of the year. In 2012, Ray launched NCC Publishing, LLC., a company that assists developing writers along the creative journey, covering areas from story and character development all the way through final publication. As part of NCC Publishing, Ray’s primary role is that of writing and story development coach. Today, along with pastoring, Ray is writing a study commentary of the Old Testament books Leviticus and Deuteronomy. He is married to his wife of 40 years and enjoys most of all being “granddaddy.”