Marcus Lamb

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Marcus Lamb (born October 7, 1957 in Cordele, GA) is a Minister, Christian broadcaster, founder, president, and CEO of the Daystar Television Network, the fastest growing Christian Television Network in the world. Daystar is also the second largest Christian Network in the world. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Lee University in Cleveland, TN entering his final semester at age 19. Marcus Lamb married Joni Trammell of Greenville, SC in 1982. Joni Lamb is the Vice President of the Daystar Television Network.

In 1980, Marcus founded Word Of God Fellowship, which is currently the parent company of Daystar Television Network. Five years later, Marcus built WMCF-TV 45 in Montgomery, Alabama which was the first Christian television station built in the history of the state of Alabama. At age 27, Marcus was the youngest person ever to build a television station in the United States.

After he sold this station in 1990 to another ministry, the Lambs moved to Dallas, TX to build KMPX-TV 29. The Lambs quickly gained recognition as “a new breed of televangelist,” as one of the CBS anchors put it. TV 29 went on the air full power in September of 1993. On January 1, 1998, Marcus began Daystar Television Network, which today owns and operates 70 TV stations across the nation and broadcasts into 80 Million households in the Unite States. As of 2009 the network reaches over 525 million households in over 200 countries around the world.

Marcus and Joni host the Daystar flagship program, Celebration that is broadcast “live” via satellite daily around the world. Marcus and Joni also minister at various churches across the nation on a regular basis and have a heart for souls and spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Marcus has a unique gifting in preaching and teaching the Word of God. As an evangelist, he has committed to memory large portions of scripture and has been called “the walking bible” by many faith-based leaders around the globe. Marcus ministers with great sensitivity to audiences with an emphasis on praying at the altar and moving in the gifts of the Spirit. It is his desire to see people saved, healed and revived with the fire of God.

In 2005, Lamb was listed as number 34 in The Church Report Magazine 's Top 50 most influential Christians in America.

He currently resides in Dallas, TX with his wife Joni and their three children, Jonathan, Rachel and Rebecca.

DayStar Network

The Daystar Television Network, founded by Marcus and Joni Lamb, is headquartered in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas metropolis area in Bedford. Daystar is streamed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on its website (www.daystar.com) and has production facilities in Dallas, Houston, Denver and the Tri Cities. Daystar programming is available on every major satellite and cable system in existence today including Comcast, DirecTV (369), Time Warner, DISH (263), Cablevision (NYC), Cox, Charter, Bright House, GloryStar and several others. In March of 2004, Daystar launched internationally on the HotBird 6 satellite broadcasting into 74 countries, and on Thaicom 3, broadcasting into 59 countries internationally. Daystar can also be viewed on international satellites including AMC-4, NSS 806, PAS-10, BskyB, VIASAT and OPTUS B-3, covering the entire footprint of the planet reaching into 200 countries.

Daystar original programming includes: Celebration, the flagship show hosted by Joni and Marcus Lamb; Joni, a half-hour talk show hosted by Joni Lamb; Check The Sound, hosted by the Lamb Children, Jonathan, Rachel and Rebecca; Gospel Music Showcase, featuring top Christian music artists, and Celebracion En Daystar, which features top Hispanic ministers and leaders.

Daystar television programs can also be seen online from anywhere in the world by going to www.daystar.com.

Beginnings

Marcus was raised in Macon, Georgia, and in 1962 at the age of five years old he became a Born again Christian at the East Macon Church of God where his family attended. He was very much involved with church activities while growing up in Macon. He attended Sunday school, church camps, and camp meetings into his teens.

While Marcus was attending a camp meeting in Atlanta, Georgie in 1973 he heard Evangelist Ronnie Brock preach. This was an inspiration for him. At the age of 15, Lamb began preaching as an Evangelist. He then went on to become an Ordained Bishop in the Church Of God Cleveland, TN. Marcus began traveling in the South preaching at revivals, and in the autumn of 1980 while preaching at a revival in Greenville, South Carolina, Marcus met Joni Trammell in her home church, the Tremont Avenue Church of God. They began dating and were married two years later in 1982.

Together they began to travel and minister at various churches through out the southeastern part of the United States and eventually went nationwide preaching at revivals.

External links and references

• Marcus and Joni Lamb Biographies and the history of the Daystar Network
• The Church Report's 50 Most Influential Christians in America
• Daystar Network - Marcus and Joni Lamb Bios

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