Jean Fleming grew up in Maryland, came to Christ in her senior year of high school and met a Navigator-trained fellow student in college. She married Roger in 1965 and they went to their first staff assignment with The Navigators in San Diego, California, followed by assignments to South Korea, Okinawa, Tucson, Seattle, Colorado Springs, and Montrose, Colorado.

Jean's primary ministry focus has been one-to-one ministry with a passion to touch the generation behind her for the future of the work of Christ. She has also written A Mother’s Heart, Between Walden and the Whirlwind (reprinted as Finding Focus in a Whirlwind World), Homesick Heart, Feeding Your Soul, and magazine articles.