Bishop Clarence McClendon,Ph.D, is the senior pastor of Full Harvest Church International and founder of Clarence McClendon Ministries in Los Angeles, California.

Clarence E. McClendon was born and raised in Decatur, Illinois and began
preaching at age fifteen. He assumed his first pastorate at age nineteen and today serves as the Senior Pastor of Church of the Full Harvest International, a rapidly growing global, multicultural congregation. Under the “umbrella” Clarence E.
McClendon Ministries (C.E.M.M.), Inc., Dr. McClendon is Founder and President of the Siloam Bible College and Clarence E. McClendon Leadership Institute,dedicated to “Empowering 21 st Century Leaders of Today With a Vision for
Tomorrow;” and The Full Harvest Network of Church Ministries and Entrepreneurs. C.E.M.M. is an enterprise that encompasses weekly national and international broadcasts and international ministry crusades. Currently more than
160 million homes have access to C.E.M.M. broadcasts through North America, Europe, Africa, South America and the Middle East. Bishop McClendon also hosts Gathering Force Crusades – annual conferences held in major cities across
America that draw in excess of 10,000 people to each location throughout the year.Dr. McClendon serves on the Bishop’s Council of the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship in charge of Fellowship Relations, and he has accepted a seat on the
College of Bishops of the International Communion of Charismatic Churches, both of which are interdenominational fellowships where he continues to build a reputation as a force for reconciliation and harmony across ethnic, denominational, generational and geographic lines. He also serves as a board member of the DoSomething Foundation, a thinktank of some of America’s top young leaders, and as a California Regent for President Bush’s Faith Based Initiative Faith Center. As a voice of authority regarding some of society’s most pressing issues, he has
appeared on the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, Nightline on ABC and Trinity Broadcasting Network, and Black Entertainment Television.

McClendon is a author, he has penned The X Blessing and And When You Pray: The Key to Accessing the Presence of God with other book projects forthcoming. His musical accolades include the Stellar Award nominated CD“Shout Hallelujah” which debuted on the Billboard’s top ten listing for Gospel music on the Integrity Gospel music label in 2001.

McClendon was once a rising star in the Foursquare Gospel denomination before he divorced his wife Tammera McClendon of 16 years. Seven days later, he married Priscilla Delgado. The name of his church before he changed to Full Harvest International was Church of the Harvest. His television ministry, Take It By Force can be seen on stations such as Trinity Broadcasting Network.
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