Suzanne Bates (MAC ’99), a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), brings a wealth of experience from the counseling field into the classroom as Assistant Professor of Counseling. She provides counseling part-time as Staff Counselor for New City Fellowship – St. Louis, a position she has held for more than a decade. She serves Covenant students and the body of New City Fellowship Church with the wisdom she has gleaned over the years as she counsels, shepherds, and/or teaches them through counseling courses, Bible studies, women’s groups, and more. She is also entering her fourth year of doctoral studies in Counseling Education and Supervision at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Suzanne, a native of St. Louis, has four grown children and two grandchildren.