Joni and Marcus Lamb. The father of 3, Jonathan, Rachel, and Rebecca, was married to Joni Lamb for over 38 years. Photo courtesy of Daystar.
Marcus Lamb, a co-founder of Daystar Television Network, and popular televangelist, has died after contracting COVID-19.
Daystar Television Network announced his passing November 30th via the official Facebook page.
“It’s with a heavy heart we announce that Marcus Lamb, president and founder of Daystar Television Network, went home to be with the Lord this morning. The family asks that their privacy be respected as they grieve this difficult loss. Please continue to lift them up in prayer,” the statement reads.
Several Christian leaders including popular televangelist Jentezen Franklin, the senior pastor of Free Chapel, have paid tribute to Marcus Lamb.
“Heartbroken over the loss of our dear friend Marcus Lamb. The impact of his life will carry on forever. Marcus was one of the greatest visionaries and evangelists of our time,” he said.
Reports show that Daystar Television Network shares the gospel with over 200 nations and 680 million homes globally every day.
“This morning at 4 a.m. the president and founder of Daystar and the love of my life went to be with Jesus,” said Marcus’ wife, Joni, on a Tuesday. “I wanted you to hear from me that he’s with the Lord.”
Joni Lamb, according to Religion News, said that her husband had diabetes and that he had been hospitalized for COVID-19 after his oxygen levels dropped. She also said that he had tried alternative treatments but was not able to recover.
Before his passing, Marcus had hosted a series of vaccine skeptics on his television program and claimed that the truth about COVID-19 was being censored.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that this is a spiritual attack from the enemy,” Lamb’s son, Jonathan, said about his father’s COVID-19 illness on a Nov. 23 broadcast of the Ministry Now program. “As much as my parents have gone on here to kind of inform everyone about everything going on to the pandemic and some of the ways to treat COVID — there’s no doubt that the enemy is not happy about that. And he’s doing everything he can to take down my Dad.”
About Marcus Lamb.
Marcus was born October 7, 1957 in Cordele, Georgia and raised in Macon, Georgia.
He became a Christian at the age of five and continued in church attendance and work as he grew older. He began to preach as an evangelist at age fifteen.
Marcus graduated from high school and enrolled at age sixteen in Lee University (then known as Lee College), Cleveland, Tennessee-based Christian university. He graduated three years later. In 1982, four years after graduation, he married Joni Trammell of Greenville, South Carolina.
The couple spent their early years of marriage as traveling evangelists, visiting churches in the Southeast to teach the gospel. They later founded Daystar Television Network in 1997 to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ around the world. The Television network is today the second-largest Christian television network.
