And in 2013 he became the Founder and CEO of Preaching with Power and Authority Ministries, a corporation committed to the pedagogy and promotion of relevant biblical preaching for the 21st Century.Īdditionally, Dr.
Board of Preachers at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. In 2008, he was inducted into the Martin Luther King, Jr. In addition to training the more than 100 ministers who comprise the Clergy Team of Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church, he serves as Adjunct Professor of Homiletics at Houston Graduate School of Theology and has taught the same at the Houston extension program of the ITC. Cosby has committed himself to equipping preachers for the work of the ministry.
With four Sunday worship services and a membership of more than 15,000, he has led the congregation to ensure its impact both on and far beyond the church campus with the inception of the Wheeler Avenue Christian Academy, serving children from 6 weeks old through the second grade by opening a transitional housing facility for homeless single mothers in the Third Ward community of Houston through cultivating a missional outreach in multiple villages in South Africa and maintaining a passion for creatively impacting the lives of the forsaken and forgotten wherever they may be found.Īs a consequence of his passion for qualitative preaching, Dr. Lawson, Pastor Cosby has been blessed to continue the ministry of this intentionally intergenerational congregation in the inner city of Houston, Texas since 2004, having served as Associate Pastor since 1998. Cosby.Īs the successor to the Founding Pastor of Wheeler Avenue, Dr. Audrey Marie Cosby, and they have been blessed with three beautiful daughters, Adrienne Marie, Ashley Marie and Aliyah Marie and two sons, Marcus D., II and Matthew D. Cosby is married to his high school sweetheart, Mrs. Curry served as pastor, Cosby received the Bachelor of Arts Degree in Religion and English from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, the Master of Divinity Degree in Homiletics and Christian Education from the Morehouse School of Religion at the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) in Atlanta, Georgia and the Doctor of Ministry Degree in Homiletics from Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Lombard, Illinois.ĭr. A proud native of Chicago, Illinois and a product of Emmanuel Baptist Church where Dr. Cosby, serves as the Senior Pastor of Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston, Texas. Cosby, the third child born to the late Mr.
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