Senior Pastor Cecil Warren

 

Pastor Cecil Warren has been the senior pastor of the Word & Worship Center for 25 years. The church is the former St. Timothy's Lutheran Church of Cutler Bay. Cecil was raised in a Southern Baptist environment but it was when he began attending a Lutheran church that he met his wife Julie. They have three daughters and a son. His daughter Kelley Warren-Augi, is a globally renowned worship leader and lead worship at Catch The Fire, Toronto, formerly known as the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship, during the 'Toronto Blessing' years of the 1990's. His wife, Julie, is also the highly anointed worship leader at Word & Worship. 

 Prior to entering the ministry Pastor Warren was a very successful high school football coach and choral director at local Miami high schools during the 70's. Upon hearing the word of God, he attended and graduated from a Lutheran Seminary at the top of his class and became a the Pastor at the largest Lutheran church in Charleston, South Carolina, a church of 6,000 members. It was while serving in Charleston that he and his family began traveling around the South, leading worship at various churches. It was during that time, in a little charismatic country church that he  experienced the baptism of the Holy Spirit that caused a hunger for more of the Lord and, in his words, "hasn’t been the same since".

 

Pastor Warren is an extremely anointed Teacher presenting the gospel in ways that are dramatic and intelligent. His concepts for interior decoration for special services are renowned and make the message visible for all ages. When God called him back to Miami, and away from the mega church in Charleston, He gave him a vision of a ministry that would have 200 sent out teachers, ministers and missionaries. Cecil has sent out dozens of people in ministry all over the globe and the Word & Worship Center has come to be known as a Spirit Renewal Center. When the congregation started to consider a new way to identify our ministry the two words that always came to the surface were “Word” and “Worship” - and isn't that really what it's all about?