‘More than one man’: T.D. Jakes reflects on his 50 years of ministry
As clips of Bishop T.D. Jakes preaching across five decades played Sunday inside The Potter’s House, the congregation heard the sermons that made the 69-year-old pastor one of the country’s most recognizable religious leaders.
For Jakes, the recordings also brought back what he had been thinking and enduring when he delivered them.
“When you all play those little messages, you hear what I said, but I hear what I thought,” he said. “I hear what I had to go through to preach it.”
The clips, he said, reminded him of struggles that were never captured on camera.
He described beginning with a small West Virginia congregation and traveling to preach when the offering sometimes did not cover the trip. Money was so tight, he told the crowd, that he would put his car in neutral and coast downhill to conserve gasoline.
“It does not matter where you start,” he said. “It only matters where you finish.”
The remarks came during “The Sound of 50,” a service tracing Jakes’ path from a 19-year-old preacher in West Virginia in 1976 to a nationally known pastor, author, film producer and entrepreneur.
The program mixed archival footage, music and testimonials with video tributes from public figures including Oprah Winfrey, filmmaker Tyler Perry and civil rights leader and former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young.
Winfrey said Jakes’ influence could not be measured solely through institutions.
“Legacy is one thing. It’s every life you’ve touched,” she told him. “You’ve touched mine.”
Jakes redirected much of the praise toward relatives, ministers, staff members and congregants. He asked his children and grandchildren to stand and thanked them for the sacrifices they made during his decades of travel.
“You sacrificed,” he said. “You put up with it while I traveled around the world, often helping other people, and you needed me to be at home.”
Jakes described his wife, Serita, as essential to building and sustaining the ministry. He thanked her for getting up at 3 a.m. to cook when he was sick and making sure he had his medication. Over the years, he said, they took turns caring for one another.
Jakes experienced a medical emergency while preaching in November 2024. He later said he had suffered a “massive heart attack.”
In April 2025, he announced he would leave the day-to-day leadership of The Potter’s House. His daughter, Sarah Jakes Roberts, and son-in-law, Touré Roberts, were installed as co-senior pastors on July 6, 2025. Jakes remains chairman of the church’s board and its spiritual overseer.
“The Potter’s House was never just Mr. Jakes,” he said Sunday. “It never was, and it never will be. What we built is more than one man.”
From West Virginia to Dallas
Jakes preached his first sermon in 1976 and was ordained in 1979, according to The HistoryMakers, an archive documenting prominent Black Americans.
He later led a storefront church in West Virginia before moving to Dallas in 1996. About 50 families formed the core of The Potter’s House, and more than 2,000 people attended its first service, according to the church’s history.
The nondenominational congregation grew into a megachurch as Jakes’ work expanded through conferences, books, gospel music, television and film.
In 2001, Time placed Jakes on its cover and asked, “Is This Man the Next Billy Graham?” The magazine described him as a religious “polymath” whose books, broadcasts and conferences carried his influence beyond Dallas.
Jakes later produced or executive-produced films including Jumping the Broom, Heaven Is for Real and Miracles from Heaven. He also served as an executive producer of Lifetime’s Seven Deadly Sins anthology.
Jordan A. Hora, executive director of public relations and communications for the T.D. Jakes Group, said those projects reached people who might never walk into a sanctuary.
“People might not come to the church, but they’ll watch a movie,” Hora said. “People might not come to a Wednesday night Bible study, but they’ll listen to an album.”
Jakes also appeared with political leaders from both parties. In 2005, President George W. Bush publicly thanked him for mobilizing religious communities to help people displaced by Hurricane Katrina. Jakes later preached at a national prayer service after the storm.
On Jan. 20, 2009, he delivered a sermon at a private service at St. John’s Episcopal Church before President Barack Obama’s inauguration.
Hora said that willingness to appear with leaders from both parties widened Jakes’ reach.
“He’s not afraid to bring everybody together, Democrats, Republicans,” Hora said.
A closer measure
Longtime member Chris Howell offered a more personal measure of Jakes’ influence.
Howell first came to The Potter’s House on Dec. 28, 1997, when he and his wife were 23 and nearing divorce. He was a Blockbuster Video district manager making more money than he ever had, but his success at work had not carried into his home.
“Professionally, I was successful, but personally, I was a failure,” Howell said.
He, his wife and their three children went to the altar that day. Their children, now in their 30s, still call Jakes their “forever bishop,” Howell said.
Jakes’ combination of biblical teaching and practical counsel gave Howell a model he had lacked growing up, he said. Delivering church announcements later helped him move into broadcasting, including work for Christian radio station KCBI-FM and as an NBC 5 contributor.
Howell and his wife, Dominique Bryant Howell, later founded the Chris Howell Foundation.
“To hear everyone come and give him his flowers while he can still hear them and smell them, I really appreciated that,” Howell said.
Kelley Cornish, president and CEO of the T.D. Jakes Foundation, followed Jakes’ televised ministry for more than 30 years before being chosen to lead the foundation.
“He can take the word of God and make it apply to your life in such a practical way,” Cornish said. “It’s not just in a sanctuary. He is taking what he gives you and modeling it around the world.”
Billy Martin, a member since 2000, said he has spent 26 years participating in the church’s prison and juvenile outreach.
“I’ve seen the impact of what it does outside of what others can see,” Martin said.
Near the end of the service, Jakes spoke about his admiration for Dolly Parton and how Whitney Houston transformed Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” for another generation.
He then borrowed the song’s title for his final message to the congregation.
“I appreciate every last one of you,” Jakes said. “And once again, I will always love you.”
North Texas audiences and viewers everywhere are invited to attend or stream The Sound of 50, a live, multi-generational celebration of Bishop T.D. Jakes’ influence across faith, culture, entertainment, leadership, economic empowerment and community life. The service begins at 9:00 a.m. CT at The Potter’s House in Dallas; doors open at 7:45 a.m. CT, and the program will stream on The Potter’s House official website and official YouTube channels. Fifty years ago, this month, Bishop Jakes began preaching as a 19-year-old in West Virginia. In the decades since, the Dallas-based leader has built a platform whose reach extends from a multicultural congregation and global broadcasts to bestselling books, leadership forums, gospel music, film and television storytelling. His work has helped bring faith-based stories to mainstream entertainment while connecting faith with conversations about race, leadership, entrepreneurship and the nation’s civic life. “The Sound of 50” will be a living record of influence: a gathering of public servants, entertainment figures, ministry leaders, business leaders, celebrities and thousands of people whose lives and careers have been shaped by Bishop Jakes’ teaching, training and mentorship. Through a celebration of the decades, the program will examine how his vision has intersected with—and helped inspire—change in North Texas, across the nation and around the world. The event also signals Bishop Jakes’ next chapter. As he transitions from his full-time, day-to-day pastoral role, he is directing even greater energy toward the T.D. Jakes Group and investments in the next generation. That longstanding commitment to “throwing back the ladder” is reflected in community-focused work that includes mixed-income housing development, grocery access, entrepreneur training, access to capital and technology education. As the nation marks 250 years, the celebration places Bishop Jakes’ five decades of influence within the broader story of American faith in public life and the leaders carrying that influence into the future.
Sunday, September 13 At-A-Glance:
What: The Sound of 50 — a celebration of Bishop T.D. Jakes’ 50 years in ministry and a look ahead to the legacy being carried forward
When: Sunday, September 13, 2026. Doors open at 7:45 a.m. CT; service begins at 9:00 a.m. CT.
Where: The Potter’s House of Dallas, 6777 W. Kiest Blvd. Dallas, TX 75236 The program will stream on The Potter’s House official website and official YouTube channels.
Who: Invited leaders from public service, ministry, business and entertainment; special guests; performers; and members of the community whose lives and leadership have been shaped by his work
Bishop T.D. Jakes’ five decades in ministry were celebrated September 13 at The Potter’s House in Dallas with “The Sound of 50,” a special service tracing the faith, relationships and creative work behind his international reach.
Oprah Winfrey, Mellody Hobson, Pastor John Hagee, Tamron Hall and Pastor Joel Osteen were among those who offered congratulatory messages. Their tributes brought voices from television, business and Christian leadership into a retrospective connecting Jakes’ earliest sermons with a ministry that expanded into gospel music, books and film.
For music listeners, the anniversary also offered a moment to revisit the recorded work associated with Jakes and The Potter’s House. His album A Wing and a Prayer won the 2004 Grammy for Best Gospel Choir or Chorus Album, according to the Recording Academy’s awards archive.
That achievement forms part of a history in which preaching and music have shared a platform. The official anniversary announcement outlined a musical tribute drawing on 30 years of music from The Potter’s House, placing the church’s creative history within the larger celebration of its founder.
The program’s story began long before awards or worldwide recognition. According to the service’s accompanying description, “The Sound of 50” explored a childhood that taught Jakes to keep trying after failure, his first sermon and a growing dedication to studying Scripture.
Older siblings recalled witnessing his calling firsthand, while longtime friends remembered the first time they heard him preach. Those personal accounts gave the anniversary a perspective rooted in the people who knew him before his ministry reached a global audience.
The retrospective followed that expanding reach across Australia, Zimbabwe, Haiti, Israel, Nigeria and the United Kingdom. It also explored how books, film and music carried his messages of mercy and grace beyond the pulpit.
Music provided a natural thread through that account. A recording can preserve a particular period in a congregation’s life, allowing listeners to return to the voices and songs they associate with worship, encouragement or personal change. Including that repertoire in the anniversary connected the church’s musical memory with the story of its founder.
The Potter’s House’s co-senior pastors reflected on Jakes’ courage to be different and the groundwork his decisions laid for others. Jakes himself looked back on Pentecost, the harvest and grace, returning the celebration to the spiritual convictions behind his work.
[UPDATE: Add named performers, setlist highlights or notable quotes from the tributes once the full on-demand replay or official recap is available.]
The occasion also brought together two milestones: Jakes’ 50 years in ministry and The Potter’s House’s 30-year history. Together, they framed a retrospective encompassing both an individual calling and the community that grew around it.
“The Sound of 50,” dated September 13, 2026, is available through The Potter’s House’s official on-demand archive.
(RNS) — Celebrities, fellow pastors and his Dallas megachurch’s next-generation leaders celebrated Bishop T.D. Jakes’ 50th anniversary of ministry during a service Sunday (Sept. 13), as he thanked his congregation and family for their support during a tenure in which he “dared to be talked about.”
“We can imagine, but we don’t know how much it cost you to let your light shine,” Pastor Touré Roberts told Jakes, his father-in-law, in front of the congregation. “But you did it. You dared to be different. You dared to be talked about. You dared to be ostracized. You risked it all in order to let it, and we want to say thank you.”
Over more than three hours, Jakes’ ministry trajectory was described — often via archival and recent video, and with musical interludes — as speakers recalled his youthful interest in preaching, his first church in Montgomery, West Virginia, and, eventually, the 1,500 people who joined The Potter’s House of Dallas, his megachurch, on its first Sunday in 1996.
“I am standing in the exceeding abundant grace of God that has done more than I could ever imagine,” Jakes, a onetime storefront preacher, told more than 5,300 congregants gathered in the sanctuary. An additional 64,000 watched the service on YouTube as of Monday afternoon.
Gratitude for Jakes also came via video from a range of celebrities from church, entertainment and political circles, including media moguls Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry, and fellow Texas pastors John Hagee and Joel and Victoria Osteen.
“It’s been a pleasure working with you and knowing you through these years,” said the Rev. Andrew Young, a civil rights leader and former United Nations ambassador. “And every time I hear you speak, you stir something in my soul. And when I think of your ministry, I realize how much you mean to so many people.”
Jakes, 69, turned over the leadership of the nondenominational church to his daughter, Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts, and Touré Roberts in April of last year. They were officially installed as senior co-pastors three months later. He has continued to serve as chair of the boards of the church and the T.D. Jakes Group, which includes his foundation and enterprises.
He also started a new podcast, “NXT Chapter with T.D. Jakes,” late last year and is expected to speak in October at a conference of the Good Soil Movement, an entrepreneurial organization he founded in 2023.
From the mid-1980s to mid-1990s, Jakes expanded his ministry from a West Virginia church to leading revivals across the state and then the nation.
Pastor Lawrence Robinson, who moved with Jakes from West Virginia to Dallas in the 1990s, recalled in a video that the minister once had the hair and fashion style of Black popular culture in the 1970s — “Jheri curls and bell bottoms and stacks,” or chunky-heeled shoes. And, he was so committed to the Bible “he’d be in the woods reading the Word,” Robinson said.
Career highlights included his “Woman, Thou Art Loosed” enterprise, related to the healing words of Jesus to a woman with an 18-year disabling condition. That expanded from a Sunday school class to cassette tapes to stadium events. The title of one of his dozens of books, it eventually became the focus of a play and a 2004 movie.
Throughout the years, Jakes has had numerous other business enterprises, including other movies and affordable housing projects in the United States. He also founded United MegaCare, a not-for-profit organization that works to enhance health, education and disaster relief worldwide.
During the service, his T.D. Jakes Foundation announced plans to donate $25,000 to support an orphanage and school in Nairobi, Kenya, and to give another $25,000 to the Jakes Divinity School, an online institution he founded in 2019.
Jakes’ family members acknowledged that beyond or behind the accomplishments, he experienced challenges and controversy over the 50 years.
Less than two years ago, Jakes suffered what he later revealed was a massive heart attack in front of his congregation. The day after, his lawyers filed a defamation lawsuit on his behalf, arguing a Pennsylvania minister, Duane Youngblood, had falsely accused Jakes of attempted sexual assault. In October 2025, Jakes informed the court the lawsuit had been voluntarily dismissed “by consent of all parties” involved in the litigation.
Sarah Jakes Roberts said her father’s legacy would continue.
“Your legacy is not coming to an end; it is just beginning,” she said. “Generation after generation are going to reap the harvest of what God has done on the inside of your life. The only thing we want you to do, in between reaping the harvest and sowing again, is to find moments of rest.”
Earlier in the service, Pastor Paul Adefarasin, founder of House on the Rock, a Nigeria-based church, expressed gratitude to Jakes for being a role model for clergy across the globe to expand their work beyond traditional church walls.
“We want to say thank you on behalf of how you have reshaped the pattern of ministry,” he told Jakes, who was seated in the front row next to his wife, Serita Jakes, for most of the event. “You taught us not to be locked up in church — to get the salt out of the shaker and get the light out of underneath the bush and then put it on the mountain.”
The event’s international focus included flags being carried onto the stage, representing more than 20 countries with which Jakes has interacted. A choir sang “Let’s Just Praise the Lord” in English, Spanish and French.
Jakes, who spoke for about 18 minutes near the end of the service, spent much of his time at the microphone thanking his family, his colleagues and his church.
“We built something that God said he wanted in the earth, and I want to applaud each and every one of you who pressed your way today and yesterday and the day before to be here,” he said. “The Potter’s House is never just Bishop Jakes. It never was, and it never will be.”
He also noted the recent death of singer-songwriter Dolly Parton, describing her “brilliance” and stating the words of one of her most well-known songs that became a global hit when recorded by singer Whitney Houston.
“So today, because I am so speechless, I want the Potter’s House to know I will always — I will always love you,” Jakes said.
More than two weeks after severe storms and prolonged power outages in Northwest Indiana, two Texas-based organizations brought relief efforts to Gary.
“True ministry is seeing the need and meeting the need and that’s what they did today,” said Bishop Roosevelt Dixon of Christ Center Church.
“This is where the long-term recovery efforts come in,” said Tiffany Brinkley of United Megacare. “This is not a one-time outreach. We were boots on the ground today, but if this was ever to happen again, God forbid, we want to know that they have family.”
The Potter’s House of Dallas and United Megacare gave away 1,500 boxes containing essentials like food, water, and toiletries for families.
Federal help is available across Indiana for victims of storm damage.
FEMA disaster assistance has mobile intake centers through Sept. 5.
Indiana also has its own disaster relief fund. Residents can apply online and receive up to $5,000.
After four months away from the pulpit, Sarah Jakes Roberts returned with a message forged through pain, uncertainty and a personal journey that left her with screws in her neck and titanium in her throat. With it, though, she brought a testimony that God can breathe life into what looks broken.
Roberts returned to preaching after experiencing a trampoline injury, giving a sermon titled “The Same, But Different,” centered on John 20 and Jesus’ appearance to His disciples after the resurrection. But before diving deeply into her message, Roberts acknowledged the physical ordeal that had kept her away.
“I said, ‘Lord, you break your neck, and you can’t get no Wi-Fi. Got to get some things together on my return,’” Roberts joked.
Yet underneath the humor was a much deeper testimony.
Roberts candidly admitted that the season had taken a toll not only physically. She told the congregation she had been “struggling with depression, struggling with worries, struggling with uncertainty,” describing moments when she strained to see where God was in the middle of everything happening around her.
That struggle became the heartbeat of her message.
Drawing on the creation account in Genesis, Roberts argued that what appears to be chaos to humanity can become an opportunity in God’s hands.
“When God sees chaos, God sees an opportunity,” Roberts said.
Roberts connected this to the disciples after Christ’s crucifixion. Frightened and uncertain, they locked themselves away. Yet the resurrected Jesus entered the room anyway, bringing His presence directly into the place fear had convinced them to hide.
The passage carried particular weight after everything she had endured.
The message reached a powerful crescendo as she turned to Ezekiel 37 and the valley of dry bones. This time, Roberts did not simply preach about resurrection. She pointed to her own body.
“I got screws in my neck. I got titanium in my throat,” Roberts declared. “I came here to tell you that bones do, in fact, live again.”
She continued with a declaration that seemed to summarize her entire return: “The enemy tried to knock the wind out of me. Little did he know I got breath on reserve.”
Roberts then urged the congregation to breathe, dream and pray again, reminding those who have endured seasons that nearly took everything from them that exhaustion is not the end of their story.
“You going to have to become somebody new to do it,” Roberts said. “But that’s all right. He specializes in creating. He specializes in doing a new thing.”
By the conclusion of the message, Roberts confirmed just how significant the moment was: “I ain’t preached in four months.”
She may have returned to the same pulpit, but Roberts’ message was clear: encounters with pain, chaos and God’s restorative power can leave us the same—but profoundly different.
By Abby Trivett
T.D. Jakes wants to change the world, one nonprofit at a time. The T.D. Jakes Foundation, an organization that aims to bridge the gap in underserved and underrepresented communities by driving economic mobility, educational access, and workforce readiness, has revamped its T7 Summit and will put significant funding behind nonprofits working in several sectors. And this time, the opportunity known as the Social Challenge Grant is open to the public.
“We understand that some funds are drying up, and it’s a strain on the people who are giving,” Kelley Cornish, president and CEO of the T.D. Jakes Foundation, told EBONY. “We are looking for nonprofits that have some of the focus areas that we have, and then we’re looking to fund them, to help with their reach and impact.”
Over the past year, the foundation has been expanding its impact by building partnerships with nonprofits across the country. “We know we don’t do anything on our own; we have to do it through partners to scale,” said Cornish. “We’re really out to find more partners to help accomplish our mission around financial inclusion, workforce readiness, and educational access, community transformation and well-being … In the past, we only did it by invitation. This time it’s open. So if you’re a nonprofit 501(c)(3), you can apply online through August 23.”
That opportunity is crucial for nonprofits today. According to reports, one-third of U.S. nonprofits reported government-funding disruptions in the first part of 2025, which included funding losses, freezes, delays or stop-work orders. For those nonprofits, government funding represented about 42% of their revenue. And in March 2025, 400 grants totaling $1.7 billion that the administration categorized as DEI or environmental-justice grants were canceled. That is something that the T7 Summit wants to address.
Birthed out of Bishop Jakes’ International Leadership Summit, the Thriving 7 (T7) Summit is dedicated to bringing the information and resources people need to run a successful and financially stable nonprofit across the globe.
“T7 Summit: Seven Continents, One World. We named it that because our chairman has impacted every continent in the world, and being his legacy organization, we are positioning to keep this going in perpetuity,” Cornish explained. “The T7 Summit is really a place to discuss social impact, create a community around it, provide information and resources.”
Finalists of the Social Challenge Grant will be invited to unveil their requests at the conference, which takes place November 12 to 14 in Atlanta. “We’ll have our pitch competition … nonprofits haven’t had the opportunity to really pitch to someone and show their passion.”
For people and organizations who attend the summit, there’s the opportunity to expand their knowledge to more efficiently manage their nonprofits, like using AI to write grant proposals.
Cornish hopes participants walk away from the Summit with a sense of accomplishment, education and partnership. “Know that they have a champion through the T.D. Jakes Foundation, and have a better picture about what funding looks like,” she shared.
“By attending the conference, you can learn about how to keep going, and other pockets to look in. A lot of people don’t have their finances together, their case for support ready, their positioning statement to get funding. Those attending will walk away with support, information, community, and, I believe, courage.”
(AURN News) — The Potter’s House in Dallas is using scholarships, college support and dorm room makeovers to help change the lives of students across the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
TPH Outreach announced new projects to support young people heading to college, including covering one incoming student’s first semester at the University of North Texas, transforming dorm rooms for foster youth and awarding scholarships to high school students attending historically Black colleges and universities.
The effort is focused on students who may be starting college without the same financial support, family structure or resources as some of their classmates.
TPH Outreach has partnered with The HBCU Project to award scholarships to five high school seniors attending HBCUs.
The organization also helped 10 students in foster care during freshman move-in day at UNT. Interior designers and volunteers furnished and designed the students’ dorm rooms, giving them a stronger start as they begin college.
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For many students, the first semester of college can come with financial pressure, uncertainty and the challenge of adjusting to a new environment. For students coming out of foster care, that transition can be even more difficult.
TPH Outreach says the goal is to make sure those students are not walking into that next chapter alone.
The projects are part of a larger push to help students in the Dallas-Fort Worth area not only get to college but also feel supported once they arrive.
DALLAS, Aug. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — This back-to-school season, The Potter’s House of Dallas, Inc. (TPH) is closing the gap between ambition and access for young people who have been left on the margins of America’s higher education system and doing it in a way that no policy or government program has managed on its own. In a country where only 8% to 12% of foster youth earn a college degree and 87% of executives report critical workforce skill shortages, the cost of inaction falls hardest on the communities least equipped to absorb it.
In the span of just a few weeks, The Potter’s House’s local philanthropic response ministry, TPH Outreach, has launched three distinct but deeply connected initiatives: transforming dorm rooms for foster youth entering college, surprising an incoming University of North Texas freshmen by paying this deserving student’s first semester in full, and awarding college scholarships to high school seniors bound for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU).
This Sunday, August 9th, during the morning service at The Potter’s House of Dallas, a young man will learn for the first time that his entire first semester of college has been paid in full by the church. The young student is a dedicated son and student, a soon-to-be mechanical engineering student, and a devoted member of the Firehouse — TPH’s youth ministry — where younger children look up to him as a mentor and role model. He came to the church not with his hand out, but with a question: “how do I make this work without relying entirely on the government?” Cameras are invited to attend Sunday’s service as the announcement is made live.
In the weeks ahead, TPH Outreach will also announce a scholarship initiative in partnership with The HBCU Project, awarding five Dallas-area high school seniors with college scholarships to support their enrollment at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The awards will be presented at the organization’s annual College Fair at the AT&T Discovery District. Details on recipients and the full scope of the partnership will be announced in the coming weeks.
Recently on August 3rd, in partnership with Greater Than Expectations (GTE) and the UNT PUSH (Persevere UNTil Success Happens) program, The Potter’s House co-presented the 4th Annual Freshman Fresh Move-In Day at the University of North Texas — welcoming 10 incoming students who have experienced foster care. Volunteers and professional interior designers transformed empty dorm rooms into fully furnished, personalized living spaces stocked with furniture, bedding, décor, hygiene essentials, school supplies, and food. The North Texas Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. joined as a co-presenting
This year, The Potter’s House of Dallas marks 30 years since its founding. Established in 1996 by Bishop T.D. Jakes, the church has grown into a 30,000-member, nondenominational, multicultural congregation and global humanitarian organization, widely regarded as one of the most significant large-model ministries in the United States. In 2025, Bishop Jakes announced the installation of Pastors Touré Roberts and Sarah Jakes Roberts as co-senior pastors, ushering in a new era of leadership. The transition reflects the church’s commitment to evolving its ministry for the next generation without departing from its founding mission. What has always distinguished The Potter’s House is not its scale alone, but its capacity to remain nimble enough to meet the immediate and specific needs of the communities it serves.
Potter’s House also announced updated service times, effective this Sunday, August 9th, Sunday morning worship services will begin at 10 a.m. CT in person and online. Services can also be streamed live on The Potter’s House official YouTube channel. The public and press are invited to attend Sunday’s service, where the first-semester scholarship announcement will be made live on stage.
About The Potter’s House
Founded in 1996 by Bishop T.D. Jakes, The Potter’s House is a global humanitarian organization and 30,000-member church based in Dallas, Texas. Known for its dynamic worship, far-reaching media presence, and unwavering commitment to social uplift, it remains one of the most influential and innovative ministries in the world. In 2026, the church celebrated 30 years of ministry shortly after a historic leadership transition, with Pastors Touré Roberts and Sarah Jakes Roberts installed as co-senior pastors to carry its mission into the next generation. For more information about The Potter’s House visit https://thepottershouse.org/
Contact:
Jordan A. Hora
jhora@thepottershouse.org
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