Rayford Steele is a fictional character and the de facto protagonist in the Left Behind series of novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. He is the leader of the group known as the Tribulation Force, and is the most elaborated character in the series. However in the film series he is condsidered the second main character.
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| - Rayford Steele is a fictional character and the de facto protagonist in the Left Behind series of novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. He is the leader of the group known as the Tribulation Force, and is the most elaborated character in the series. However in the film series he is condsidered the second main character.
- Rayford was born 42 years before the Rapture in Belvidere, Illinois to working-class parents. While growing up, Rayford is embarrassed by his family's low socioeconomic status and his parents' relative old age, and he makes it his goal to attend college and become either a professional athlete or a pilot. He eventually obtains an Air Force ROTC scholarship to attend Purdue University; while there, he meets a fellow ROTC cadet two years his junior, Irene. They fall in love and marry in the spring of his senior year, and just a year later, his daughter Chloe is born. Over the next several years, he leaves the Air Force and begins working as a pilot for Pan-Continental Airlines; when he is thirty, he and Irene unexpectedly have a son, Raymie.
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| - Irene Steele Amanda White Steele Chloe Steele Williams Rayford "Raymie" Steele Jr. Cameron "Buck" Williams Kenny Bruce Williams Ekaterina Risto
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| - Former airline pilot for Pan Continental, later Nicolae Carpathia's pilot for the Condor 216, then pilot for International Commodity Co-op
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| - Rayford Steele is a fictional character and the de facto protagonist in the Left Behind series of novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. He is the leader of the group known as the Tribulation Force, and is the most elaborated character in the series. However in the film series he is condsidered the second main character.
- Rayford was born 42 years before the Rapture in Belvidere, Illinois to working-class parents. While growing up, Rayford is embarrassed by his family's low socioeconomic status and his parents' relative old age, and he makes it his goal to attend college and become either a professional athlete or a pilot. He eventually obtains an Air Force ROTC scholarship to attend Purdue University; while there, he meets a fellow ROTC cadet two years his junior, Irene. They fall in love and marry in the spring of his senior year, and just a year later, his daughter Chloe is born. Over the next several years, he leaves the Air Force and begins working as a pilot for Pan-Continental Airlines; when he is thirty, he and Irene unexpectedly have a son, Raymie. Though raised in a churchgoing family, Rayford cannot conceive of “faith” being anything more than attending church, trying to be a good person, and helping one another, nor can he imagine what is meant by a "personal relationship" with Christ. Three years after Raymie is born, Rayford has a brush with death when he nearly collides with another airplane while landing at LAX, and he impulsively promises God that he will go to church and pray more regularly; on the same night, Irene, after talking to a neighborhood friend, becomes a born again Christian. They are soon at odds over her new found faith and he reneges on his promises to God. Though his job at Pan-Con enables him to afford a large house and expensive cars, he finds that these material things do not bring him the satisfaction he had expected, and he increasingly withdraws into himself, sullen at Irene’s constant pushing him to "receive Jesus as his Savior." As a father, he is pleased with Chloe’s questioning, independent streak, and though he loves Raymie, he is dissatisfied with what he perceives as the boy’s soft and overly compassionate nature – as well as the enthusiasm he shares with Irene for everything church-related.
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