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Houston | December 9, 2007
By now, most people who pay attention to such things know that Houston's Lakewood Church, led by Joel Osteen, draws more than 42,000 souls to four worship services every weekend at the former Compaq Center. But they may not know that nearly 8,000 of those come not to hear "Pastor Joel" but "Pastor Marcos," the multitalented singer-songwriter-author-preacher Marcos Witt, who leads the Servicio en Espanol and serves as spiritual shepherd to one of the largest Hispanic congregations in the nation.
Though Witt was relatively unknown among Anglo audiences when Osteen invited him to lead Lakewood's Hispanic ministry in 2002, he was a major celebrity in Hispanic Christian circles throughout the U.S. and Latin America. Texan by birth (he was born in San Antonio, in 1962) but Mexican by upbringing (his parents were missionaries in Durango), Witt has recorded 31 albums of Christian music, selling more than seven million copies and winning four Latin Grammys (the most recent for 2006's Alegria). He has also written eleven books,...
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