Steven R. Bates

Steven R. Bates graduated from Lee University with a BA in biblical education before receiving a scholarship for the Master of Theological Studies at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He eventually transferred to the Medical University of South Carolina, where he received a Doctor of Dental Medicine. Presently, while still maintaining his dental practice in Charleston, S.C., he has combined his knowledge in theology and passion for missions in his travels abroad, which have included ministry in almost all of the countries of South America, as well as Norway and Israel.