Spiros Zodhiates was born of Greek parents on the island of Cyprus. He came to the United States in 1946 at the invitation of AMG International, an organization founded in 1942 in New York City as a ministry only to the Greeks and Greece. He became President of AMG in 1966 and AMG was relocated to Chattanooga in 1978. Dr. Zodhiates is a recognized authority on the Greek New Testament. He writes a weekly gospel message which appears as a paid advertisement in Greek newspapers and magazines around the world and is editor-in-chief of the leading Greek evangelical magazine, The Voice of the Gospel, published in Athens. He is the author of hundreds of books and booklets in English, as well as more than eighty books and booklets in Greek. He and his wife, Joan, have 4 children and 12 grandchildren.