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Dr. C. Herschel Gammill was born into a pastorium in rural southern Mississippi on October 16, 1942. At age 17, he accepted his personal call into the ministry. He began ministry on street corners, to prison inmates, and conducting revival crusades. He enrolled the following year at Lee Bible College in Cleveland, Tennessee, he later received his Doctorate of Divinity from Vision University. However, it was at Lee College that Herschel met his future wife, Gail. Prior to their marriage, they worked together, ministering to teen gangs and drug addicts on the streets of New York City with David Wilkerson in the Teen Challenge Ministry. Cathedral of Life is an interdenominational, interpersonal, and interracial church founded on the inerrant Word of God. It was established as a Bethesda meaning: House of Mercy. Dr. Gammill, Aphesis Inc.'s 1999 Pastor of the Year, brings to the pulpit an unmistakably God given authority. His Apostolic anointing, Prophetic ministry, Evangelistic alter-calls, and Teacher's thoroughness are all balanced by his over-whelming gift of Mercy and Grace manifested in a true Pastors heart. He is a man who gently, but firmly asks you to grow, as he himself continues to do so. Dr. Gammill has also authored a book entitled Covered Not Concealed, dealing with restoration and healing. |
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Bishop & Founding Pastor:
After
college, Herschel traveled as an evangelist and ministered in multi-denominational
settings. He has ministered at major camp meetings, conferences
and crusades from coast to coast and in over twenty (20) nations
of the world. He has had an extensive television and radio ministry
for over twenty-three (23) years. Over the past 40+ years, he has
established, built, and pastored seven churches in Utah, New Jersey,
Alabama, Illinois, and Ohio. In August of 1974, the Gammill family
came to Canton, Ohio to pastor the Canton Temple Church of God.
In October of 1981, Bishop Gammill felt directed of God to withdraw
from his church denomination and start a new church. Thus, the Cathedral
of Life was born.