American Christian minister and gospel music artist.
Bishop Carlton D. Pearson was one of the most popular and influential preachers in America and around the world, who sacrificed everything for a message of unconditional love and acceptance by God.
In 1977, Carlton launched his own ministry, Higher Dimensions, Inc., traveling the country with a small ministry team. In 1981, with the help of his college roommate, Gary McIntosh, Carlton started Higher Dimensions Evangelistic Center, with 75 people attending its first service in Jenks, Oklahoma. Quickly outgrowing the small, storefront location in Jenks, Higher Dimensions eventually settled at 8621 South Memorial Drive in Tulsa, becoming an integrated, multi-ethnic, cross-cultural congregation of more than 5,000 members.
A national television program launched in the mid-1980s, "Everything's Gonna Be All Right," expanded Carlton's outreach to a national and international audience, becoming at that time one of only two African American preachers with a nationwide television ministry. His annual AZUSA Conference, begun in 1988, became an international movement, giving national exposure to a number of preachers and gospel singers, bringing together believers of all denominations, cultures, races and walks of life. The annual conference attracted as many as 70,000 people to Tulsa each year, generating tens of millions of dollars to the Tulsa economy during the week-long conference, as well as smaller weekend conferences held across the country each year, such as Los Angeles, Atlanta, Philadelphia, San Jose, Tacoma, Buffalo and even Durban, South Africa.
His "Live at AZUSA" albums were nominated for multiple Dove and Stellar Awards, winning three Stellar Awards for "Carlton Pearson Live at AZUSA 2: Precious Memories."
On the opening night of AZUSA '96, a group of pastors and bishops recognized his leadership by declaring him "a bishop in the Lord's church." The opening night of the following year's conference, Bishop Carlton Pearson was officially consecrated in an ecclesiastical ceremony as the Presiding Bishop of the AZUSA Interdenominational Fellowship of Christian Churches and Ministries, establishing oversight of thousands of churches and ministries all over the world.
He gave counsel to multiple U. S. Presidents, as well as a number of international presidents, kings and other leaders, who were won over by his intelligence, charm, humor and kindness.
Bishop Pearson passed away peacefully the night of November 19, 2023, at the age of 70.
Bishop Carlton D. Pearson was one of the most popular and influential preachers in America and around the world, who sacrificed everything for a message of unconditional love and acceptance by God.
In 1977, Carlton launched his own ministry, Higher Dimensions, Inc., traveling the country with a small ministry team. In 1981, with the help of his college roommate, Gary McIntosh, Carlton started Higher Dimensions Evangelistic Center, with 75 people attending its first service in Jenks, Oklahoma. Quickly outgrowing the small, storefront location in Jenks, Higher Dimensions eventually settled at 8621 South Memorial Drive in Tulsa, becoming an integrated, multi-ethnic, cross-cultural congregation of more than 5,000 members.
A national television program launched in the mid-1980s, "Everything's Gonna Be All Right," expanded Carlton's outreach to a national and international audience, becoming at that time one of only two African American preachers with a nationwide television ministry. His annual AZUSA Conference, begun in 1988, became an international movement, giving national exposure to a number of preachers and gospel singers, bringing together believers of all denominations, cultures, races and walks of life. The annual conference attracted as many as 70,000 people to Tulsa each year, generating tens of millions of dollars to the Tulsa economy during the week-long conference, as well as smaller weekend conferences held across the country each year, such as Los Angeles, Atlanta, Philadelphia, San Jose, Tacoma, Buffalo and even Durban, South Africa.
His "Live at AZUSA" albums were nominated for multiple Dove and Stellar Awards, winning three Stellar Awards for "Carlton Pearson Live at AZUSA 2: Precious Memories."
On the opening night of AZUSA '96, a group of pastors and bishops recognized his leadership by declaring him "a bishop in the Lord's church." The opening night of the following year's conference, Bishop Carlton Pearson was officially consecrated in an ecclesiastical ceremony as the Presiding Bishop of the AZUSA Interdenominational Fellowship of Christian Churches and Ministries, establishing oversight of thousands of churches and ministries all over the world.
He gave counsel to multiple U. S. Presidents, as well as a number of international presidents, kings and other leaders, who were won over by his intelligence, charm, humor and kindness.
Bishop Pearson passed away peacefully the night of November 19, 2023, at the age of 70.
American Christian minister and gospel music artist.
Bishop Carlton D. Pearson was one of the most popular and influential preachers in America and around the world, who sacrificed everything for a message of unconditional love and acceptance by God.
In 1977, Carlton launched his own ministry, Higher Dimensions, Inc., traveling the country with a small ministry team. In 1981, with the help of his college roommate, Gary McIntosh, Carlton started Higher Dimensions Evangelistic Center, with 75 people attending its first service in Jenks, Oklahoma. Quickly outgrowing the small, storefront location in Jenks, Higher Dimensions eventually settled at 8621 South Memorial Drive in Tulsa, becoming an integrated, multi-ethnic, cross-cultural congregation of more than 5,000 members.
A national television program launched in the mid-1980s, "Everything's Gonna Be All Right," expanded Carlton's outreach to a national and international audience, becoming at that time one of only two African American preachers with a nationwide television ministry. His annual AZUSA Conference, begun in 1988, became an international movement, giving national exposure to a number of preachers and gospel singers, bringing together believers of all denominations, cultures, races and walks of life. The annual conference attracted as many as 70,000 people to Tulsa each year, generating tens of millions of dollars to the Tulsa economy during the week-long conference, as well as smaller weekend conferences held across the country each year, such as Los Angeles, Atlanta, Philadelphia, San Jose, Tacoma, Buffalo and even Durban, South Africa.
His "Live at AZUSA" albums were nominated for multiple Dove and Stellar Awards, winning three Stellar Awards for "Carlton Pearson Live at AZUSA 2: Precious Memories."
On the opening night of AZUSA '96, a group of pastors and bishops recognized his leadership by declaring him "a bishop in the Lord's church." The opening night of the following year's conference, Bishop Carlton Pearson was officially consecrated in an ecclesiastical ceremony as the Presiding Bishop of the AZUSA Interdenominational Fellowship of Christian Churches and Ministries, establishing oversight of thousands of churches and ministries all over the world.
He gave counsel to multiple U. S. Presidents, as well as a number of international presidents, kings and other leaders, who were won over by his intelligence, charm, humor and kindness.
Bishop Pearson passed away peacefully the night of November 19, 2023, at the age of 70.
Bishop Carlton D. Pearson was one of the most popular and influential preachers in America and around the world, who sacrificed everything for a message of unconditional love and acceptance by God.
In 1977, Carlton launched his own ministry, Higher Dimensions, Inc., traveling the country with a small ministry team. In 1981, with the help of his college roommate, Gary McIntosh, Carlton started Higher Dimensions Evangelistic Center, with 75 people attending its first service in Jenks, Oklahoma. Quickly outgrowing the small, storefront location in Jenks, Higher Dimensions eventually settled at 8621 South Memorial Drive in Tulsa, becoming an integrated, multi-ethnic, cross-cultural congregation of more than 5,000 members.
A national television program launched in the mid-1980s, "Everything's Gonna Be All Right," expanded Carlton's outreach to a national and international audience, becoming at that time one of only two African American preachers with a nationwide television ministry. His annual AZUSA Conference, begun in 1988, became an international movement, giving national exposure to a number of preachers and gospel singers, bringing together believers of all denominations, cultures, races and walks of life. The annual conference attracted as many as 70,000 people to Tulsa each year, generating tens of millions of dollars to the Tulsa economy during the week-long conference, as well as smaller weekend conferences held across the country each year, such as Los Angeles, Atlanta, Philadelphia, San Jose, Tacoma, Buffalo and even Durban, South Africa.
His "Live at AZUSA" albums were nominated for multiple Dove and Stellar Awards, winning three Stellar Awards for "Carlton Pearson Live at AZUSA 2: Precious Memories."
On the opening night of AZUSA '96, a group of pastors and bishops recognized his leadership by declaring him "a bishop in the Lord's church." The opening night of the following year's conference, Bishop Carlton Pearson was officially consecrated in an ecclesiastical ceremony as the Presiding Bishop of the AZUSA Interdenominational Fellowship of Christian Churches and Ministries, establishing oversight of thousands of churches and ministries all over the world.
He gave counsel to multiple U. S. Presidents, as well as a number of international presidents, kings and other leaders, who were won over by his intelligence, charm, humor and kindness.
Bishop Pearson passed away peacefully the night of November 19, 2023, at the age of 70.
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