J. Drew Sheard earned a BS in education and a MEd in mathematics from Wayne State University. In 1988, he began his pastoral ministry at Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church in Detroit, Michigan. ...view moreJ. Drew Sheard earned a BS in education and a MEd in mathematics from Wayne State University. In 1988, he began his pastoral ministry at Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church in Detroit, Michigan. In 2021, he was elected to the Office of the Presiding Bishop of the Church Of God In Christ, Inc., the world’s largest Pentecostal group. Bishop Sheard and his wife have two children and two grandchildren.view less