About Stephen

STEPHEN BAKER is the author of nine books and various Bible studies.  

  • Trained by the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice in the use of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for group counseling.  
  • Certified as a SMART Recovery® group facilitator and trained in Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy.  
  • Experienced in the use of 7 Challenges Brief® curriculum for individual substance abuse counseling.   
  • Stephen has counseled incarcerated teens for drug and alcohol dependency since 2013.  
  • Stephen earned his Master’s Degree in Ministry from Crown College in Powell, Tennessee and has over twenty years of ministry and pastoral counseling experience.
  • Stephen served as a foreign missionary for five years.
  • He currently serves God as the pastor of a small Baptist congregation in Dalton, Georgia.  
  • Stephen is married to April. The Bakers have two children.