Dr. Horace W. Sheppard Jr.
Dr. Horace W. Sheppard, Jr. is the Senior Pastor of the West Oak Lane Church of God, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has been in pastoral ministry for twenty-eight years. His previous pastorates included serving churches in East Palo Alto, California and Kansas City, Missouri. In addition to pastoral ministry he also served three years as a full time evangelist. Pastor Sheppard has been used extensively as a revivalist, conference leader and convention speaker both nationally and abroad. He is a graduate of Mid America Nazarene University and is the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the Southern California School of Ministry.
Co-laboring along side of Dr. Sheppard is his wife Linda Marie Sheppard an ordained minister who also serves full time in the ministry of West Oak Lane Church. Pastor Linda has shared as a speaker both locally and Internationally. They have been married for thirty-four years and are the proud parents of three sons and one daughter and the delighted grandparents of eight grandchildren.