Early Life
Marcus was born October 7, 1957 in Macon, Georgia. He grew up in a Christian home, attending the East Macon Church of God with his family. 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. He graduated from high school at a young age and was enrolled at Cleveland, Tennessee’s Lee University at age sixteen. Three years later he graduated with Magna Cum Laude honors. In 1982, four years after finishing college, he married Joni Trammel of Greenville, South Carolina. The couple spent their early years of marriage as traveling evangelists. Marcus was ordained as a Bishop with the Church of God and they visited churches throughout the Southeast to teach the gospel.
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