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Steve Gaines (John Steven Gaines) was born on 31 December, 1957 in Corinth, Mississippi, U.S., is an American pastor. Discover Steve Gaines's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

Popular As John Steven Gaines
Occupation Pastor, 61st President of the Southern Baptist Convention (June 15, 2016 - June 13, 2018)
Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 31 December 1957
Birthday 31 December
Birthplace Corinth, Mississippi, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Parents Edgar GainesDorothy Gaines
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1957

John Steven Gaines (born December 31, 1957) is an American Southern Baptist pastor, and the president of the Southern Baptist Convention.

He is currently serving at Bellevue Baptist Church in Cordova (a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee), one of the largest congregations in the Southern Baptist Convention and has visited Israel 16 times.

1975

He entered the University of Tennessee at Martin (UTM) on a full football scholarship in the fall of 1975.

By the third game of his freshman season, he shared a starting defensive end position with a senior teammate.

At UTM, he began attending weekly meetings of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

1976

Their father worked for the Illinois Central Railroad and retired in 1976 as a track supervisor.

Their mother founded and supervised a janitorial business in Dyersburg, for which both Gaines and his brother worked.

He was baptized by his pastor at First Baptist Church in Dyersburg, Dr. Robert Orr.

During his senior year at Dyersburg High School, Gaines was selected as first team defensive end in his high school's "Big Ten Conference" and as All-District in track.

1977

In the fall of 1977 he gave up his football scholarship to transfer to Union University, a Christian college in Jackson, Tennessee.

On October 23, 1977, Steve Gaines was licensed to the Gospel ministry by his home church in Dyersburg.

At Union University, Gaines met Memphian Donna Dodds, a campus leader who was selected as Miss Union University.

1979

After graduating from Union University in 1979, Gaines began studies for a Master of Divinity degree at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.

For seven years he served as Professor Roy Fish's grader, longer than anyone else to ever hold that position.

In the final year of his master's program, the seminary preaching faculty awarded Steve with the H. C. Brown, Jr. Preaching Award for "Outstanding Achievement in the Study and Practice of Preaching."

At the same time, the evangelism faculty presented him with the W. Fred Swank Evangelism Award for best demonstrating the spirit of evangelism as a graduating student.

Fred Swank was the legendary pastor of Sagamore Hill Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.

He was the only Southwestern Seminary graduate to ever receive both awards.

For Senior Preaching Week, Gaines was selected to preach in the seminary's chapel services before his professors and peers.

1980

Their first date was in December 1978, and they were married on June 14, 1980.

Donna Gaines is a Bible teacher and author who leads women's ministries at Bellevue and speaks at churches and conferences across the nation.

She has a Master's of Education from Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas, and is board certified as an educational diagnostician.

Steve and Donna Gaines have four children.

1984

He graduated with his Master's of Divinity on May 11, 1984.

1985

He began doctoral seminars at Southwestern in the fall of 1985, majoring in preaching and minoring in evangelism.

Dr. Fish's course on The History of Spiritual Awakenings particularly inspired him to pray and seek genuine revival for America.

His doctoral dissertation was entitled, "An Analysis of the Correlation between Representative Baptist Hour Sermons by Herschel H. Hobbs and Selected Articles of The Baptist Faith and Message."

1991

He graduated from Southwestern Seminary with a Ph.D. on May 10, 1991.

2000

The document, which is the primary doctrinal statement for all SBC agencies, including its six seminaries and International Mission Board, was adopted by the SBC in 2000.

2004

In 2004, Gaines was elected president of the Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference, and was the keynote speaker at the SBC annual meeting in Nashville.

He served with his predecessor at Bellevue and three-time SBC president, Adrian Rogers, on a committee charged with revising The Baptist Faith and Message.

2005

On Sunday, July 10, 2005, the Pastor Search Committee of Bellevue Baptist Church presented Dr. Steve Gaines to the church congregation.

At the conclusion of the services the Bellevue family overwhelmingly voted to call Steve Gaines as the seventh Pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church.

Gaines succeeds the longtime Bellevue pastor Adrian Rogers.

Before arriving at Bellevue Baptist, Gaines pastored for 14 years at the Gardendale First Baptist Church, an 8,500-member church in suburban Birmingham, Alabama.

There he became one of the leading voices in the conservative wing of the SBC.

2016

On March 9, 2016, Dr. Johnny Hunt announced he would nominate Gaines to be President of the Southern Baptist Convention at the upcoming SBC annual meeting in St. Louis, Missouri.

2017

He was elected, and was then re-elected for a second one-year term at the 2017 annual meeting in Phoenix, Arizona.

Gaines' theology is best described as conservative and evangelical.

Born to parents Edgar and Dorothy Gaines, Steve and his only sibling, Ed, spent most of their youth in the small town of Dyersburg, Tennessee.