10/07/14

Stephen Mays, pastor of Calvary Church South Bay and author of two Bethany House publications, Overcoming and Overwhelmed by God and Not Your Troubles, passed away on Friday, October 3, due to complications following back surgery. Mays was sixty-four years old and is survived by his wife, Gail, two grown children and four grandchildren.

Mays was the senior pastor of Calvary Chapel South Bay in Gardena, California, for more than thirty-one years. He was a well-known conference and commencement speaker, author, and radio personality through the Light of the Word broadcast, heard by thousands throughout the country and abroad. He had also taught at the Christian Embassy United Nations in New York, as well as at the Ambassador Study, the Diplomat Study, and the Pentagon in Washington, DC.

Bethany House wishes to express their condolences to Pastor Mays’s family, friends, and church for this great loss.

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