Iron & Shepherd
Iron & Shepherd
Building stronger leaders, families, and faith through leadership, stories, and biblical truth.
What is Iron & Shepherd?
Iron & Shepherd is a growing leadership, publishing, and Christian ministry organization founded by Jerry W. Sutphin.Our mission is simple: building stronger leaders, families, and faith through leadership, stories, and biblical truth.What began through writing and real-life leadership lessons has grown into something larger—a place where leadership, family, storytelling, publishing, and Christian ministry come together with one purpose: to help people grow, find direction, strengthen their faith, and know they are not walking through life alone.
Sutphin Publishing
Stories with purpose. Books that help people grow.Sutphin Publishing is the publishing arm of Iron & Shepherd, creating faith-based fiction, children’s stories, leadership books, devotionals, and other works centered on faith, family, character, resilience, and purpose. Our goal is to publish books that encourage, equip, and leave a lasting legacy.
Fence Line Ministries
Faith rooted in truth, community, and the quiet places where God meets us.Fence Line Ministries is the ministry arm of Iron & Shepherd, founded by Jerry W. Sutphin. Through sermons, devotionals, biblical teaching, and community gatherings, the ministry exists to strengthen faith and remind people they do not have to walk through life alone.
Books by Jerry W. Sutphin
Where the Fence Line Ends
A faith-centered family novel about healing, legacy, forgiveness, and finding your way home. Where the Fence Line Ends begins a story rooted in the quiet places where faith, family, and second chances meet.
Salem and the Lost Chick
A gentle Fence Line Kids story about responsibility, helping others, and doing what is right. Follow Salem as he brings a lost chick safely home and learns about kindness, courage, and faith.
No Degree Required
A practical leadership and career guide built from real-world experience, showing how character, work ethic, leadership, and measurable results can create opportunity and open doors—even without a college degree.
Ember's Journey
Book Two in Where the Fence Line Ends series. Ember’s story continues the world of the Fence Line through themes of belonging, healing, family, faith, and discovering that sometimes home is found where you least expected it.
Now Available
Coming Soon from Sutphin Publishing
New stories, leadership books, devotionals, and children’s adventures are already in development. From the next chapters of the Fence Line world to practical leadership lessons and new family-centered stories, Sutphin Publishing is continuing to build a growing library rooted in faith, purpose, character, and hope.
The Unity Protocol
Book One of The Valor Chronicles
When extraordinary abilities begin to emerge, Dr. Cade Valor and Dr. Serena Valor discover that their greatest strength is not what either can do alone, but what becomes possible when they stand together. A story of family, courage, sacrifice, and the power of unity.
Coming Soon
Where the Fence Line Began
A story of roots, love, and the beginnings that shape a family’s legacy. Where the Fence Line Began returns to the origin of the Fence Line story, tracing the early foundation of faith, family, and the choices that started it all.
Coming Soon
Also in Development
Additional leadership, devotional, family, and children’s projects are being developed through Sutphin Publishing, including The Black Wolf, My Mother's Story, Leading Through the Storm, The Commanded Man, future Fence Line Kids adventures, and other faith-centered works designed to encourage, equip, and inspire.
Jerry W. Sutphin
Author • Leader • Publisher • Ministry Founder
Meet Jerry W. Sutphin
Jerry W. Sutphin writes with one purpose—to help people feel seen, understood, and less alone.Drawing on decades of leadership experience and a deep commitment to faith and family, Jerry writes leadership books, faith-centered family fiction, and children's stories that explore courage, healing, character, and belonging.He is the author of No Degree Required and the Where the Fence Line Ends series, where ordinary moments reveal the extraordinary power of faith, compassion, and love.Through Sutphin Publishing and Fence Line Ministries, the ministry arm of Iron & Shepherd, Jerry works toward a simple mission: building stronger leaders, families, and faith through leadership, stories, and biblical truth.Jerry lives in Ohio with his family and believes that every life matters, every story has meaning, and no one should have to walk through life alone.
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