Yolanda Adams, Fred Hammond, and Bishop Hezekiah Walker Among Several Receive Honorary Doctorates

Next Dimension University, an accredited Bible College based in Ontario, California, is had its most celebrated commencement exercise to date, on Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 3PM at the West Angeles Cathedral, located at 3600 Crenshaw Blvd in Los Angeles, CA. The event was free and open to the public

Gospel music greats Yolanda Adams, Fred Hammond, Hezekiah Walker and Judy Jacobs were among several people bestowed with honorary doctorate degrees for their
long, distinguished works in ministry. Former NFL quarterback-turned pastor, Randall Cunningham and minister/former reality TV star Omarosa Manigault will also received honorary doctorates.

More than 150 people graduated and were honored during the festivities. Dr. Cecil L. “Chip” Murray , the longtime former pastor of First AME Church of Los Angeles was the commencement speaker. “I am utterly thrilled and trembling knowing that I was chosen to address the people of God,” he said via a phone conversation from his office on the campus of the University of Southern California. “This is an awesome assembly and it’s going to be a great honor to stand before them on Holy ground.”

A capacity crowd of over 5000 people filled the beautiful West Angeles Cathedral. “This is our most impressive graduating class ever and we couldn’t be happier to see what the Lord is doing,” said Dr. Joel McLeod, the founder and chancellor of Next Dimension University. “I believe it’s a milestone in Christian education and it’s going to debut the whole cause of stomping out Biblical illiteracy on a global scale and prepare master teachers to help facilitate that mission.