1. David Jeremiah was born on February 13,1941 and is an American evangelical Christian author, founder of Turning Point Radio and Television Ministries and senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church, a Southern Baptist megachurch in El Cajon, California, a suburb of San Diego.
David Paul Jeremiah was born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1941 to Ruby and James T Jeremiah.
David Jeremiah went on to receive a Master's degree in Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary and completed additional graduate work at Grace Seminary.
In 1969, David Jeremiah founded Blackhawk Baptist Church in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Blackhawk Christian School in 1973.
In 1981, the Jeremiah family, which now included four children, moved to Southern California, where David Jeremiah succeeded Tim LaHaye as the senior pastor at Scott Memorial Baptist Church.
In 1982, David Jeremiah founded Turning Point for God, a multi-media broadcast ministry.
David Jeremiah has won numerous awards over the years through the Turning Point program, including the National Religious Broadcasters Hall of Fame Award and the NRB President's Award in 2020.
In 1994 and again in 1998, David Jeremiah was diagnosed with lymphoma.
David and Donna Jeremiah have four grown children and are the grandparents of twelve grandchildren.
Jeremiah's oldest son, David Michael, is the president of Turning Point and the anchor voice of the radio program.
David Jeremiah's other son, Daniel, is a former NFL scout, and now works as an analyst with the NFL Network.