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The writer, named Michael at birth after the biblical archangel Michael, is the grandson of a sharecropper and the son of two preachers. Having been nurtured in the ways and admonition of the Lord from his youth, he was educated in the Rowan County, North Carolina public school system. Michael earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Education from North Carolina Central University in 1982, with honors. He taught in the Warren County public school system and graduated with honors in 1986 from the North Carolina Central University School ofLaw, Durham, North Carolina, with a Juris Doctorate degree.
Michael met Christ, while in law school in 1984, and soon afterwards he married Angela Culbertson. He is the father of two children and grandfather of four. In 1988 he recognized the call into the ministry and later enrolled in the Southeastern Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Georgia, under the late Dr. Gregg Singer of Salisbury, North Carolina.
Michael has published and written legal articles, religious skits and plays, songs and autobiographies. He has traveled widely, and hosted two regular radio programs. As the pastor of Damascus, Emmanuel Church, located in East Spencer, North Carolina, and as a bishop in the Emmanuel Churches worldwide, Bishop King has done extensive evangelism and missionary work in the poor areas of North Carolina, and Alabama and in the poor areas of South Africa. During his missionary journeys Bishop King learned that the poor regardless of their race or nationality all possess the same needs,aspirations and desires. They need hope and they all desire to do better in this life and the life to come. And during the South African visits Bishop King learned that the developing countries are in great need of teaching materials regarding the Will of God in the every day lives of the people. It is the Bishop's hope that the publishing and distribution of this work will greatly inhance the work in South Africa and other developing countries who hunger and thirst after the Word of God,
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