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Reverend Elliott Cuff is the senior pastor of the Lincoln Heights Missionary Baptist Church, Woodlawn, Ohio. Dr. Cuff is a graduate of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the New York Theological Seminary, where he earned the Master of Divinity Degree, and the United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio, where he earned the Doctor of Ministry Degree in Social Justice Preaching. Dr. Cuff is also a life member in the NAACP and holds joint membership in the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature. He has written many articles and essays for Christian publications, including his sermon work in the African American Pulpit, published by Judson Press and his essay on African American preaching, published in the Jubilee Bible by the American Bible Society. He is a member of the Harvard University Club of Cincinnati. In April 1999, Dr. Cuff was inducted into the distinguished Board of Preachers, Martin Luther King, Jr. Chapel, Morehouse College, in Atlanta Georgia. Additionally, he has served when asked and has been appointed to various local and national leadership roles in community, institutional, and denominational bodies. He serves as President and Founder of the Voices of the Valley Ministries Leadership and is the Dean of National Baptist Congress of Christian Education, NBCUSA INC. Dr. Cuff is married to the lovely, vivacious and charming Virginia E. Cuff. They are the proud parents of their daughter, Lorell E. Cuff. Dr. Cuff’s preaching motto is, “Be Radical, Be Relevant, but most of all, Be Right!”
11 AM - Rev. Lillian Gail Moore
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Dr. Ernest R. Flores, the pastor of Zion Baptist Church of Ambler, is a dynamic preacher, teacher, pastor and counselor who has pastored churches in New Jersey and Pennsylvania for 24 years. Dr. Flores earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California in History, a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy at Eastern University. Dr. Flores has preached the gospel in Mexico, Zambia, Italy, Burma as well as across the United States. He has also taught as an Adjunct Professor at Azusa Pacific University, Latin American Bible Institute, Eastern University, Esperanza College, Palmer Theological Seminary and he is currently an adjunct professor at Lincoln University, the first HBCU. Dr. Flores formerly served as president of the Philadelphia Baptist Association Ministers Council. In 2008, Judson Press published a book of his sermons called, “Tempted to Leave the Cross.”