Ronald Bates:  

My story really begins between my freshman and sophmore years. While attendinding a church convention that summer, I had an encounter with the Lord, and was called into the ministry. What a joke that someone as totally unworthy as I would feel such way. I felt as if I was losing it at the ripe old age of 16, and dismissed it as some wild imagination. In the summer of 1966, at a church camp, I met a young girl with whom I would share this journey we call life. This year, 2011, W we will celebrate our 44 year together . In 1976 I began a pastorial ...Expand for more