Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook

Suzan Johnson Cook is the Senior Pastor of the Bronx Christian Fellowship, which she founded in the Bronx in 1996 after serving as the pastor of Mariners' Temple Baptist Church in downtown Manhattan for 13 years and growing their membership exponentially. A powerful preacher, Dr. Johnson Cook was recently described in The New York Times as "Billy Graham and Oprah rolled into one."

In 2002, Dr. Johnson Cook became the first woman to be elected president of the 10,000 member Hampton (Virginia) University Ministries' Conference, which represents all the historically African-American denominations. Her long list of other firsts includes: the first African-American woman called to serve as pastor in the American Baptist Church movement; the first woman appointed chaplain of the New York City Police Department; the first woman from the Bronx and the first woman Baptist minister to receive a White House Fellowship.

Featured in Ebony magazine in 1997 as one of the nation's top 15 women in ministry, Dr. Johnson Cook is the author of eight successful books, including: Too Blessed To Be Stressed, A New Dating Attitude - Getting Ready For The Mate God Has For You, The Sister's Rules for Ministry, Praying For The Men In Your Life, and Balancing Your LIFE, God's Plan For Hope And A Future.

A faculty member and graduate of Harvard University, Dr. Johnson Cook also received a Doctor of Ministry from United Theological Seminary (Dayton, Ohio), a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary, and a Master of Arts from Columbia University.