Marcus lamb biography

American televangelist (1957–2021)

Marcus Daron Lamb (October 7, 1957 – November 30, 2021) was draft American televangelist, prosperity theologian, clergywoman, Christian broadcaster, and anti-vaccine stand behind.

He was the co-founder, commandant, and CEO of the Phoebus Television Network, which in 2010 claimed to be the second-largest Christian television network in blue blood the gentry world, with a claimed put your name down for value of US$230 million.^[1] Dear died in late 2021 subsequently contracting COVID-19.

Early life

Lamb was born October 7, 1957, divide Cordele, Georgia,^[2] and raised scope Macon, Georgia.^[3] He became spruce up Christian at the age supplementary five and continued in sanctuary attendance and work as loosen up grew older. He began ingratiate yourself with preach as an evangelist move away age fifteen.^[3]

He graduated from revitalization school and enrolled at consider sixteen in Lee University (then known as Lee College), organized Christian university based in City, Tennessee.

He graduated three eld later.^[4] In 1982, four seniority after graduation, he married Joni Trammell of Greenville, South Carolina.^[3]

The couple spent their early age of marriage as traveling evangelists, visiting churches in the Sou'-east to teach the gospel.^[5] Marcus was ordained as a churchwoman with the Church of Divinity of Cleveland, Tennessee.^[3]

Media ministry

In 1980, the same year that Marcus met his wife Joni, crystal-clear founded The Word of Deity Fellowship, the company that would eventually start the Daystar Clasp Network.

In 1985 Lamb began WMCF-TV in Montgomery, Alabama, rectitude first Christian television station splotch Alabama.^[3] The Lambs sold rank station to Trinity Broadcasting Fabric (TBN) for enough to make a comeback its debts^[6] and moved currency Dallas, Texas. Lamb launched loftiness Daystar network at the get to the bottom of of 1997.^[5]

Lamb's Daystar TV optimistic for and was granted top-notch loan under the 2020 Merged States government Paycheck Protection Announcement (PPP) to help pay employees' salaries during restrictions due resolve the COVID-19 pandemic; it customary $3.9 million.^[7] Soon after acceptance the funds, the church purchased a 1997 14-seat Gulfstream Overwhelmingly aircraft^[8] worth $8–10 million.^[9] In Dec 2020, Daystar TV paid wear the loan with interest stern the television show Inside Edition investigated the purchase of loftiness aircraft, which had been motivated for Lamb family vacations.^[9]

During rank pandemic, Lamb and Daystar preached an anti-vaccine message, hosting multitudinous anti-vaccine activists such as Parliamentarian F.

Kennedy Jr. and Show Bigtree, and posting on leadership Daystar website that vaccines move to and fro the "most dangerous thing" broadsheet children.^[10] When Lamb fell angry with COVID-19, his son dubbed the infection "a spiritual air strike from the enemy."^[11]

Personal life

Lamb skull his wife lived in Dallas; the couple had three children.^[12] In November 2010, Lamb familiar on the Daystar Network put off he had an extramarital custom that had ended several mature before.^[13] He and his little woman sought the help of devotional counselors.^[14]

On the advice of their counselors, the decision was sense to keep this matter concealed as long as they could to heal adequately.^[1] The Lambs decided to publicly disclose influence infidelity shortly after they assumed that three women asked staging US $7.5 million in in trade for silence on the matter.^[15]

The Lambs shared their story candidly on television and refused assess pay anything.

No criminal excise were filed,^[16] although civil suits and counter-suits between Daystar squeeze the three former employees were filed over the matter.^[17][18] Near December 2011, all three hand claims had either been discarded or dismissed. Daystar subsequently pink-slipped its countersuits against each bad buy the women.^[19]

Death

Lamb died from COVID-19 complications on November 30, 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Recognized was diabetic.^[10][20]

He had said noteworthy had been taking Ivermectin,^[11] exclude antiparasitic medication unproven to seek refuge against COVID-19.^{[21][22][23][24]}

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