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"The Lord God has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary." Isaiah 50:4 NKJV For more information and speaking engagements contact: Cathedral of Praise Community Church and International Kingdom Strategy Center 6400 Haverford Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19151 www.CathedralofPraiseInternational.org
The Reverend Doctor LaVerne Adams is a self improvement specialist and has a passion for helping people to become empowered to reach their highest potential and has spent a lifetime doing it. The Reverend Dr. La Verne Adams celebrates over twelve years as Pastor, Teacher, and Vision Architect of the Cathedral of Praise Community Church, located in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This church began with about 35 members who were mostly senior citizens. Today the church is thriving with vibrant worship and countless community outreach programs to youth, which is the signature of this growing ministry. Her leadership has helped the church to develop disciples and prepare leaders in the Kingdom of God.
As pastor, Dr. Adams has instituted the COPCC Leadership Academy that strengthens spiritual growth and accountability with plans underway for the development of the International Kingdom Strategy Center that will prepare leaders to strategically expand God’s kingdom in the marketplace. The Net-Get- Connected Small Group Ministry was created to help keep members connected and supported. Another divinely inspired innovation was the Biggest Loser Life Changing Experience, where participants were led through an eight-week journey, shedding weight from the body, soul, and spirit. The group collectively lost almost 100 pounds as well as some unnecessary emotional and spiritual baggage. To address the needs of adolescent youth, Pastor Adams is the innovator of the Cathedral Crossroads Rites of Passage Program, offering supportive activities for youth between the ages of 13 and 18.
As Executive Director, she developed programs at the church’s 30,000-square-foot facility, which ministers to over 100 families in the community daily, though the Motivational Achievement Program (MAP), a before- and after-school program which continues into a full-day Techno Arts Summer Camp specializing in the arts, media, and technology. The Cathedral Learning Center is a full-service preschool, with a curriculum that is literacy-based and includes the “I Can Read Program” to inspire infants to preschoolers to have a love for reading. These community programs employ over 30 people from the community. In the newly renovated computer lab, the church hosts a community computer program for all ages, helping to bridge the digital divide as well as prepare area residents with advanced technology skills and better employment opportunities. In its newly renovated kitchen, the church sponsors health programs and teaches nutritional cooking classes to children. These creative and innovative ministries have made the Church the center of the community as it touches and changes lives every day.
As community leader, Dr. Adams has been awarded Community Service Awards by Mayor Michael Nutter, State Representative Louise Williams Bishop, and State Senator Vincent Hughes. She has also been awarded numerous federal, state, city, and private grants to continue her work in the community. Continued efforts are being made to provide relevant opportunities to community residents—turning this once deteriorating neighborhood into a place “where God lives in the Praise” (Psalm 22:3).
As professor, Dr. Adams is a graduate of Palmer Theological Seminary with a Doctor of Ministry degree focused on the Renewal of the Church for Mission and the holistic needs of youth in church and community. She was nominated for “Who’s Who in American Universities” in 1996. Since 1998, she has served as professor at the Eastern School of Christian Ministry and adjunct faculty of Palmer Seminary teaching professionally courses in Community Focused Ministry, Stewardship, and Small Group Ministry. Dr. Adams also teaches Bible and Foundations for Christian Spirituality at Eastern University’s Esperanza College. She is a recognized church leader with the American Baptist Churches, USA and is a member of the Abundant Harvest Fellowship of Churches under the direction of Bishop David Evans.
As Scholar Practioner, Dr. Adams is recent recipient of the Lilly Endowment National Clergy Renewal Program award, which gave her the opportunity to hone her Spanish-language skills through lengthy sojourns in Latin America with the expressed purpose to learn the language and the culture to minister to more effectively to a multicultural audience.
Dr. Adams is a dynamic preacher, teacher, and transformational speaker. She believes that her God-given calling is to make God truly known to every person she encounters. She is host of “A Life Changing Word” radio broadcast. As the Doctor of Destiny she is a certified life coach to busy professionals and celebrities in need of spiritual guidance and affirmation. She is affectionately known as Dr. “V” as she hosts “Livin’ It!”—a Web TV & web radio talk show that discusses how you can live the Christian life with victory in a post-Christian world. Dr. Adams has been seen on Fox Television and in Redbook magazine and is known for her victorious, vivacious spirit and zest for life.
Dr. Adams has world-wide apostolic influence and has been launched to the nations, traveling internationally spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ. She has traveled to Africa, India, the Caribbean, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Venezuela. She is host to the Christian Women’s International Empowerment Conference launched in Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies and scheduled to span to locations around the globe. We know that God has more in store for her as she avails herself to be God’s choicest vessel fit for the Master’s use in a new age, a new millennium, and a new world.
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