The Reverend Dr. Marcus D. Cosby serves as the Senior Pastor ofWheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston, Texas. He was born the third child of Rogers and Bobbie Cosby in Chicago, Illinois. There he received his elementary education at .. the Emmanuel Christian School and secondary education at Whitney M. Young '. Magnet High School. He further received the Bachelor of Arts Degree in Religion and English from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, the Master of Divinity Degree in Homiletics and Christian Education from the Morehouse School of Religion at the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) in Atlanta, Georgia and the Doctor of Ministry Degree in Homiletics from Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Lombard, Illinois.  Since his early youth, Dr. Cosby has been actively involved in the work of the Church. He was licensed to preach and ordained to the Christian Ministry at the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois where the Reverend Dr. L.K. Curry served as Pastor. It was at Emmanuel that he met and married 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.