Our Pastor
About Our Pastor
The Rev. Solomon Iyobosa Omo-Osagie II, PhD has a Divine Calling to teach, preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and lay hands on the sick by the power of the Holy Spirit that they may recover and be made whole. The Lord saved him from the claws of death while he was a teenager and brought him out of a life of disobedience and darkness and gave him a brand new light, walk, and talk. His late mother, Elder (Ms.) Laura L. K. Ezekwe orchestrated his emigration to the United States of America where God ordered his footsteps. With God’s help, he received several academic scholarships for undergraduate and graduate education. After his graduate education in Ohio, the Lord led him back to Baltimore. In 1995, the Lord sent him a saved, dignified, humble, and God-fearing woman, Andrea Antoinette Myers. Her parents, the late Elder Robert Isaiah Myers Sr., and Mother Annie M. Myers were diligent and faithful members of the Maryland Church of God In Christ. Rev. Omo-Osagie and then Sister Andrea Myers dated the old fashioned way before they became engaged. Two years later, Pastor Stafford B. Sutton Sr. united them in holy matrimony at the Maryland Church of God In Christ. From that point forward, the Lord detailed him to be under Pastor Sutton’s leadership, mentorship, and tutelage, where he served faithfully as his Chief Adjutant before being called to the pastorate.
He received his ministerial license in September 2004. In November of the same year, he made his pilgrimage to Memphis, Tennessee, the spiritual home of the Church of God In Christ where he had a transformational encounter at the Prayer Room in the Mason Temple. It was in the Prayer Room after much tarrying, weeping, and supplication to the Lord that he received the Holy Ghost with evidence of speaking in tongues as the Spirit of God gave him utterance. In August of 2006, he was ordained an Elder by the late Bishop David Washington Spann, Sr., then Prelate of the Greater Maryland First Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the Church of God In Christ. In May of 2008, he founded the Impact Pentecostal Fellowship COGIC with twenty (20) members and located to Eastern Baltimore County, Maryland where he serves as the Founding Pastor.
Pastor Omo-Osagie is a scholar. With God’s help, he earned several academic degrees: PhD in History from Morgan State University, Maryland; MA in Theology from the St. Mary’s Seminary and University, Maryland; MA in Political Science from Bowling Green State University, Ohio, and a BS in Social Sciences from Coppin State University, Maryland where he graduated cum laude, as a McNair Scholar, and the Student Senate President in 1993. In 2001 and 2007, he received the prestigious National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar and Institute Fellowships at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy and at the University of South Carolina. He is the recipient of several awards, the author of two published books and more than 40 commentaries and articles, and is currently a full professor of political science and history at the Baltimore City Community College where he has done research in the areas of African American political and labor histories, African American religious history, twentieth century United States history and Africans in the Diaspora. Notwithstanding all these academic degrees and accomplishments, he is most humbled for being saved, sanctified, and filled with the Holy Spirit. Pastor Omo-Osagie is a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., a dedicated family man, and the satisfied husband of one wife, Lady Andrea and father of two beautiful and graceful daughters, Shalom Chidimma and Keturah Osarieme. God bless and keep Pastor Omo-Osagie and the Impact Church family.
