Pastor Steven Cauble: Who He Is and What's Verified

Pastor Steven Cauble

Steven Cauble is an American minister and church event director. He served as an associate pastor at The Church on the Way in Van Nuys, California, and was married to actress Lisa Whelchel from July 1988 until their divorce in March 2012

Quick facts


Known as	Steven Cauble, Steve Cauble
Profession	Minister; managing director of the Foursquare Connection convention
Church ties	The Church on the Way, Van Nuys, CA; The Foursquare Church
Marriage	Lisa Whelchel, married July 9, 1988
Divorce	Finalized March 1, 2012, after 24 years
Children	Three: Tucker, Haven and Clancy
Age	Reported as 61 in September 2012, which would put him in his mid-seventies now
Current status	No confirmed public announcements as of September 2026

Why people search his name

Almost every search for Steven Cauble starts somewhere else — with Lisa Whelchel, who played Blair Warner on The Facts of Life and later finished as co-runner-up on Survivor: Philippines. He was her husband for more than two decades.

That framing sells him short. Cauble built a working life inside the Foursquare Church that had nothing to do with television, and the part of his career that is best documented is the part almost no celebrity article covers.

It’s worth saying plainly: much of what circulates online about him is unsourced. Birth dates, hometowns, net worth figures and current addresses get repeated across dozens of near-identical pages without a single citation behind them. This article sticks to what reporting actually supports.

Ministry at The Church on the Way

Cauble was an associate pastor at The Church on the Way, the Van Nuys congregation that Jack Hayford led from 1969 to 1999 and grew into one of America’s early megachurches. The church is Foursquare — a Pentecostal denomination founded in Los Angeles in 1923 by Aimee Semple McPherson. Wikipedia Wikipedia

An associate pastor at a church that size does less preaching and more running things. Contemporary accounts place Cauble in exactly that lane: administration, systems, coordination. He was the person who made large, complicated things work rather than the person on the platform.

Earlier in his adult life he worked for Life Pacific College, the denomination’s college, and represented it at Foursquare conventions. Connect Meetings

The convention he rebuilt

This is the genuinely interesting part of his résumé.

Cauble had attended Foursquare conventions since childhood, first with his family and later on behalf of Life Pacific College. He came away thinking they were disorganized. So he told the denomination’s leadership as much — and they responded by asking him to fix what he’d criticized. He started as a volunteer handling the convention’s music, then picked up audiovisual, venue contracts and catering, and was eventually asked to arrange attendee lodging on top of all of it. Connect Meetings Connect Meetings

He agreed, but pointed out he was supporting a wife and three kids on an associate pastor’s salary. A financial arrangement followed, and the 2000 convention in Hawaii was his first as official staff. Connect Meetings

By 2018 he described himself as a one-man show running Foursquare Connection as managing director. The event moves to a different U.S. city each year and draws roughly 4,000 people, from infants to seniors, and he was nearing his 40th convention in a leadership role. Connect Meetings

One change he pushed reveals something about how he thinks. The convention used to offer parents little more than a room to take crying children to. Cauble wanted families to treat the trip as a family trip, so age-appropriate programming was added for kids from infancy through high school — as many as 650 children a year. All of it runs in a secured area with separate restrooms, a requirement he factors into scouting venues. Cost drives his choices too; he has said his own parents had to count every penny to attend. Connect Meetings Connect Meetings

He has also planned events outside the denomination, including work for the Christian Community Development Association and international gatherings for the C.S. Lewis Foundation. Connect Meetings

Marriage to Lisa Whelchel

They met through church. Whelchel first encountered Cauble at a prayer group in 1986, and they married on July 9, 1988, while he was an associate pastor at the church she attended. The Facts of Life had just finished its run, and she stepped away from acting. HuffPost

The two worked together in Christian ministry from that point on. Whelchel became a Christian author and speaker; Cauble handled church work and, later, the logistics side of her book sales and speaking calendar. HuffPost

They had three children — Tucker, Haven and Clancy — all born in the early 1990s. The family kept a low profile, which appears to have been deliberate rather than accidental.

The divorce

Whelchel confirmed the split to People in September 2012, months after the fact: the divorce was final on March 1, 2012, ending 24 years of marriage. She flew out to film Survivor on March 10, and later said the show gave her something else to focus on rather than sitting with the loss. UPI HuffPost

Neither of them has explained what ended the marriage. Whelchel told People that what happened in the family was between them and God, and she has never elaborated. Reports at the time indicated she filed in Denton County, Texas, in December 2011, that the divorce was uncontested, and that the couple had kept the separation private until the filing. Court records were sealed. Speculation filled the gap, as it usually does — none of it has ever been confirmed by either of them, and it shouldn’t be repeated as fact. Amomama Amomama

Where he is now

The relationship between them survived the marriage, which is the detail that keeps this story circulating.

In a 2018 trade-magazine interview, Cauble said he and Whelchel remained best friends and saw each other regularly along with their three grown children, and that he still handled her book sales and speaking engagements. One of their daughters has joked that she wouldn’t have known her parents were divorced if someone hadn’t told her. Connect Meetings Amomama

Whelchel remarried in 2019, to psychologist Pete Harris. As of September 2026, no reliable source has reported a remarriage for Cauble, and his current city of residence has not been confirmed in any credible outlet despite the confident claims scattered across content-farm websites.

What isn’t established

Worth knowing before you read anything else about him:

Exact birth date and birthplace. Never published in a reliable source. The 1951 Denton County claim traces to unsourced aggregator pages.
Net worth. No figure has ever been verified. All published numbers are guesses.
Current home address or city. Unconfirmed.
Reason for the divorce. Both parties declined to say. Everything else is rumor.
“Senior pastor” titles. Some pages assign him churches and roles that don’t appear in any real record.

FAQs

Who is Pastor Steven Cauble?
He’s an American minister who served as an associate pastor at The Church on the Way in Van Nuys, California, and has spent decades organizing the Foursquare Church’s annual Connection convention. He was married to actress Lisa Whelchel from 1988 to 2012.

When did Steven Cauble and Lisa Whelchel divorce?
Their divorce was finalized on March 1, 2012, after 24 years of marriage. Whelchel confirmed it publicly in September 2012.

How many children do Steven Cauble and Lisa Whelchel have?
Three: Tucker, Haven and Clancy, all born in the early 1990s.

Are Steven Cauble and Lisa Whelchel still on good terms?
Yes. In a 2018 interview, Cauble said they remained best friends and saw each other regularly with their grown children. He has also continued managing her book sales and speaking engagements.

What does Steven Cauble do now?
His best-documented work is directing Foursquare Connection, the denomination’s annual convention, which draws around 4,000 attendees to a different U.S. city each year. He has also planned events for other Christian organizations.