Pastor Marcus D. Davidson is a native of Tuscumbia, Alabama. He is the son of Dr. Green Davidson, III and Mrs. Barbara Bostick-Davidson and has four siblings: Vanessa Batten, Latresha Davidson-Woods, Reverend Green Davidson, IV, and LaBradford Davidson. Pastor Davidson is married to Mrs. Yvokia Jones-Davidson, and they have one child, Layla Alexandria.Possessing a commitment to education, Pastor Davidson is a graduate of Deshler High School, Tuscumbia, Alabama; and he received his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Technology from Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University in Normal, Alabama. He later entered Heritage Bible College in Huntsville, Alabama; where he received his Master of Biblical Studies. He also graduated from Beeson Divinity School at Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama, with his Master of Divinity. In addition, he has studied at Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas; and abroad at the Caribbean Graduate School of Theology, Kingston, Jamaica in the West Indies. Pastor Davidson received his Doctor of Ministry degree (with an emphasis in Black Church Leadership) from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. His doctoral project was “Developing Church Members into Ministry Leaders.”At the age of six, Pastor Davidson accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior and united with the St. James Missionary Baptist Church in Leighton, Alabama under the leadership of his father, Dr. Green Davidson, III. When he was sixteen years of age, Pastor Davidson acknowledged his call into the preaching ministry.Currently, Pastor Davidson serves as Senior Pastor of New Mount Olive Baptist Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where he has served since 2010. He currently serves as Vice President of the Southeast Region for the National Baptist Congress of Christian Education, an auxiliary of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.