Kyle F. Stephens (B.A., B.D., Th.M, Th.D.) is the pastor of Blessed Hope Baptist Church in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, where he has pastored for over thirty-five years. Saved at ten years old, he did not begin to grow in the Lord until his early twenties. He and his wife Marcia have been married over thirty-five years and have four grown children and a growing number of grandchildren.