Marcus Lamb

Background

Marcus was born October 7, 1957 in Macon, Georgia. He grew up attending the East Macon Church of God.

Education

He graduated from high school and enrolled at age sixteen in Lee University (then known as Lee College), Cleveland, Tennessee-based Christian university. He graduated three years later.

Career

The network has 90 television stations and satellite and cable coverage that reaches 100 million United States. households and more than 200 countries. The estimated value of the network is $230 million. He became a Christian at the age of five and continued in church attendance and work as he grew older.

He began to preach as an evangelist at age fifteen.

The couple spent their early years of marriage as traveling evangelists, visiting churches in the Southeast to teach the gospel. In 1984 Lamb moved to Montgomery, Alabama to begin WMCF-television This was the first full power Christian station in the state.

The Lambs sold the station to Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) in 1990 and moved to Dallas, Texas. Lamb launched the Daystar network at the end of 1997.

Lamb is a regular speaker and teacher on his network and as a visitor to other churches.

His most regular public forum is on Celebration, the Daystar flagship program Every weekday, he hosts the show with Joni and speaks about the Bible and their network.

Achievements

• He is the co-founder, president, and Chief Executive Officer of the Daystar Television Network, the second-largest Christian television network in the world.