Dr. Albert G. Lemmons was born in 1936 in Northern Arkansas. He is from a lineage
of gospel preachers that dates back more than 150 years to John M. Lemmons who was
born in 1816 and was converted under the preaching of Ben Franklin and Barton W.
Stone, pioneers of the Restoration movement of New Testament Christ-
ianity. No generation
has since been without able preachers.
Lemmons was educated at Freed-Hardeman College, Henderson, Tennessee; Harding College,
Searcy, Arkansas; Harding Graduate School, Memphis, Tennessee; University of Miami,
Florida; Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas; and
Rice Seminary, Jacksonville, Florida, from which he received the Doctor of Ministry
degree in May, 1974.
He has been married to Patsy Davenport Lemmons for fifty-one years. They have five
children and eleven grandchildren.
Among the books authored by Lemmons are Prayer and Fasting, Teach Us to Pray,
Christian Trustee, Dynamic Faith, and Is Fasting for Today?
Dr. Lemmons has conducted more than 600 revival meetings, workshops, and seminars
during his fifty-two years of ministry, speaking in Asia, Africa, Europe, and South
America. His tape ministry is far-reaching.
The Lemmons live in Franklin, Tennessee, where he
serves as Associate Minister for
the one hundred and
seventy-five year old Fourth Avenue church of Christ. He
continues
to conduct seminars each year. In 2002, Dr. Lemmons was appointed as a National
Senior Advisor to the Presidential Prayer Committee.