Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church: Beliefs, Service Times, Locations, And Pastor:The Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church was founded in March of 1962 when 13 pioneering worshipers gathered in the lounge of Texas Southern University’s Baptist Student Union with the sole goal of creating a holy form of expression through which the worship of God as well as service to humanity could coexist.
From the initial 13’s trustworthy tenacity, the congregation has grown to 12,000 members.
In 1962, the Southern Baptists gave the church its first sanctuary, which became known as “The Chapel.” The William A. Lawson Christian Life Center and Community Life Center are part of the church’s mission complex, which also includes a prayer chapel, a scout house, a sanctuary for worship, and a shipping and receiving facility.
The founding pastor of Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church, the Reverend William A. Lawson, declared during the anniversary celebration on June 6, 2004, that he was ready to hand the reins over to another shepherd after 42 years of serving the flock.
Beliefs
The Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church have their core belief in the following:
- God; They believe in an all-powerful, all-knowing Creator-God who fashioned His universe, probably in the image of His own Heavenly realm. He placed humans, made in His image-He is a spiritual Trinity, was as earthly families- in this very good universe to manage it for Him.
2. They hold the belief that human pride led them to attempt to usurp God’s authority as Ruler of the universe, and in consequence both humans and the universe have been corrupted and damaged, and that we are condemned to be destroyed.
3. Redemption: Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church believes that because of His omniscience, God foresaw a rebellion and had previously devised a plan to restore order to the cosmos and humanity. This plan would develop through a chosen servant (Abraham), a chosen country (Israel), a body of divine law, a string of trials that were under the divine control, a message delivered by selected prophets, a personal visit to earth by God’s own Son, and His death and resurrection.
4. Stewardship: Lastly, they believe that God requires a total stewardship of our personal selves, our time, our gifts, and our treasure; our families and any friends we may influence to join us in His holy work; He expects that total stewardship to call us to personal piety and to social action. They believe that He wants to use us in sanctuary and in market-place, to preach conversion and civic justice, as church members and as professionals or students or homemakers, as total servants bringing a total message to the total human condition.
Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church Locations
Service Times
Sunday: 8:00AM, & 11:30 AM
Sunday School: 10:00 AM
Children’s Sunday School: 8:00 AM
Children’s Church: 11:30 AM
Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church Pastors
Rev. William A. Lawson:Â Rev. William A. Lawson is Pastor Emeritus of Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston, Texas. He retired in 2004
Lawson was born in St. Louis, Mo., and raised by his parents, Walter and Clarisse Lawson Cade in Kansas City, Kansas. He graduated from Sumner High School, Kansas (1946). He went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology at Tennessee A. & I. State University in Nashville (1950). However, he returned to Kansas City to attend Central Baptist Theological Seminary, which he acquired Bachelor of Divinity and Master of Theology degrees.
While in seminary, he married Audrey Hoffman Lawson, who is a native of St. Louis. The Lawsons have four children, two grandchildren, and celebrated their 61st wedding anniversary in January of 2015.
Rev. Dr. Marcus Cosby: The Reverend Dr. Marcus D. Cosby, is the current senior pastor of Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston, Texas. He is the third child born to the late Mr. Rogers Cosby and Mrs. Bobbie J. Cosby.
Cosby is a native of Chicago, Illinois, and a graduate of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, whose pastor was Dr. L.K. Curry. He graduated from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, with a Bachelor of Arts in Religion and English, from the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) in Atlanta, Georgia, with a Master of Divinity in Homiletics and Christian Education, and from Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Lombard, Illinois, with a Doctor of Ministry in Homiletics.
Dr. Cosby is married to his high school sweetheart, Mrs. Audrey Marie Cosby, and they have been blessed with three beautiful daughters, Adrienne Marie, Ashley Marie and Aliyah Marie and two sons, Marcus D., II and Matthew D. Cosby.
Social Media
You can follow them on the following social media platforms for their live services:
Instagram: @wheeleravenuebc
Facebook: @WheelerAvenueBC
YouTube: Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church
Twitter: @WheelerAvenueBC