TERRY BATES 

Terry is the senior pastor of Faith Church in Oklahoma City, OK. When he joined the staff, the 70-year old church had suffered from two difficult pastoral transitions, causing the church to fall from over 2,000 to only 300. While they began the turnaround process with the remaining 300 people (predominantly senior adults), and also began a second service (practically a new church within an existing church) that would appeal to younger families. Today, the church serves over 1500 people and they have two daughter-satellite churches, one in Spanish and one in English. Prior to his pastorate at Faith, Terry was senior pastor at two other churches, leading them as they broke through a variety of growth barriers. With God’s help in applying the growth principles he now shares in his book, Positioning Your Church, Terry is an expert in capturing vision, implementing structure and maintaining discipline to achieve ministry success.  

Using these insights, Terry has effectively partnered with churches of all sizes by helping them with their capital stewardship needs from $100,000 to over $12 million in the churches where he has personally coached. Through his strategic planning and team building skills, pastors are able to see their ministries raise the funding they need to see their dream become reality. In addition, Terry has developed an exclusive Solutions Team which consists of leaders who have led or are leading some of America's largest churches; giving them the insights and ideas needed to help larger ministries in their stewardship campaigns. 

During more than 30 years of ministry, he completed several consultant and coaching certification programs and has shared his leadership and ministry experiences around the world, including being one of the trainers for Dr. John Maxwell’s Million Leader Mandate in which he was personally involved in training over 250,000 leaders. Today, he provides consulting, coaching and conference services for Dr. Stan Toler’s BGW | Forward in Faith and BGW | Vibrant, as well as his own Vision Ministries, Impact 5000 and Christian Leadership International. He is the host of the weekly television and radio ministry “Discover Faith” and is a regular host on Trinity Broadcasting Network and guest on Daystar Television Network. 

Terry and Robin Bates have been married for over 25 years and have three children Rachael, Naomi and Jason, who are all actively involved in ministry.