Bio for rich wilkerson jr
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Rich Wilkerson Jr. is an American preacher, author, and speaker who gained widespread attention after marrying rapper Kanye West and Kim Kardashian in 2014.
As a pastor, he’s recognized for his engaging preaching style and his focus on teachings from the Bible that connect with younger audiences. Alongside his wife, DawnCheré, they share messages of faith and encouragement on social media.
Beyond his role as a pastor, Rich Wilkerson Jr. has written books to inspire and uplift readers on their spiritual journey. One of his notable books, “Sandcastle Kings: Meeting Jesus in a Spiritually Bankrupt World,” explores how encountering Jesus can change lives.
Biography
Pastor Rich, whose full name is Richard Peterson Wilkerson Jr., grew up in a deeply Christian family. He hails from four generations of pastors in his family on both his mother’s and father’s sides. His second cousin was David Wilkerson, the well-known author of the Christian book, The Cross and the Switchblade.
His parents, Robyn and Rich Wilkerson Sr., lead Trinity Church, a large church in Miami that’s part of the Assemblies of God. Despite his family’s strong religious background, Rich didn’t have a personal encounter with God until he was 17 years old. This experience mark
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Rich Wilkerson Jr.
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The Ministry of Fun
Usually the church comes first, then TV. For most of televangelicalism's history, that's how it's worked. But when Vous Church was born last fall, its arrival was documented on an Oxygen reality show called Rich in Faith, and even then, the titular Rich, Pastor Rich Wilkerson Jr., was already almost famous, having officiated the wedding of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, guested on Kourtney and Khloé Take the Hamptons, and attended to the soul, such as it is, of Justin Bieber.
Vous may still be, in Pastor Rich's terms, a "baby church," but when I visited earlier this year, he was filling three services every Sunday. Each was staged to perfection, from the neo-emo praise band to the climactic baptisms in front of a DJ spinning in the courtyard. The Sunday I attended, Rich was preaching about John the Baptist, the "original Christian hipster." First, though, he wanted to talk about Leonardo DiCaprio. Rich loves talking about Leo, because he looks like Leo. Or rather, he insisted, Leo "looks like me." The guests—the term Rich prefers to members—always laugh, because at Vous it's not vanity if it's true.
Vous is short for Rendezvous, a weekly youth service Rich hosted for seven years at his father's megachurch before