Pastor Terry White
ABOUT OUR PASTOR/TEACHER
Pastor Terry Lawrence White is a native of Stamps, Arkansas. He is a graduate of Henderson State University in Arkadelphia,AR where he received his Bachelor of Science degree. He is also an Honors Graduate of the Dallas Institute of Funeral Services. He furthered his education at Brite Divinity School in Biblical Studies at Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, Texas.
Pastor White was called to preach the Gospel Ministry in 1981
under the leadership of the late Dr. Harry Blake at Mount Canaan Baptist Church in Shreveport, Louisiana.
He was licensed and ordained by the late Reverend C. G. Wilkins at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church in Houston, TX.
He is the former Pastor of Samaria Baptist Church in Van Alstyne,Texas | Greater New Hope Baptist Church in Sherman,Texas and Mount Carmel Baptist Church in Dallas, TX.
In August 1998, he accepted the call of the Marsalis Avenue Missionary Baptist Church.
Under his dynamic and visionary leadership, the church continues to grow in membership and ministry. The weekly “Prayer and Praise” Worship is the spiritual catalyst for the church, as Pastor White is a “Praying Preacher.” The church has been blessed to make property acquisitions and complete remodeling projects. In April 2007, the church completed its new addition of a 4,700 sq. ft. “Family Ministry Center” which consists of a fellowship hall, classrooms, business center, and executive office/suite.
In March 2018, the church underwent another upgrade with new Video/Media Screen to enhance the Worship Experience.
In July 2009, he received a Certificate for Advanced Religious Study in Textual, Exegesis, Hermeneutics, and Homiletics from Oxford University in Oxford, England. He is a Sermon Contributor in book entitled Oxford Sermons Vol. 3. Pastor White is also an Alumnus of
Bishop College Scholars of Proclaimers Place at Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY.
Pastor White is Vice Moderator of the North Texas District Association. He is 2nd Vice President of the Dallas Baptist Ministers Union; he is a member of the Oak Cliff Baptist
Ministers Union, the Interdenominational Ministers Alliance, the National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.,
where he is actively involved as the Executive Secretary/Treasurer of the NBCA Home Mission Board, and National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.
He is the former owner and operator of the Angelic Mortuary in Sherman,Texas. He is a Life Member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
He has two adult children,
Terris L. White, M.D., and Tierney White.