Bishop T.D. Jakes, Senior Pastor of the Potter’s House in Dallas, Texas, has given over leadership of the congregation to his daughter and son-in-law.
Jakes reportedly announced his decision on Sunday morning, April 27, 2025, weeks after having a severe heart attack while speaking at the congregation.
The clergy stated that being hospitalised after suffering a major heart attack on stage influenced their decision.
T.D. Jakes, the founder of The Potter’s House in 1996, has confirmed that his daughter and son-in-law, pastors Sarah Jakes Roberts and Toure Roberts, will take over in July.
He went on: “You have been faithful to God, and you have been faithful to me.” And I’m very grateful.
“I cannot afford, especially after November, to risk something happening to me and you be sheep without a shepherd.”
Sarah Jakes Roberts remarked, “I am grateful and honored to be your daughter.
“I’m so happy you’re going to get some rest.”
Meanwhile, in an interview with American reporter Craig Melvin on the TODAY show, Jakes described the catastrophic heart attack.
Jakes said he had no signs of a cardiac arrest, but physicians later informed him that he was preaching with just half of his heart functioning.
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He stated, “I didn’t realize what was happening to me onstage until I arrived at the hospital in an ambulance, fussing that it happened onstage because I didn’t want it to happen, and the doctor leaned over my ear and said, ‘You had a massive heart attack.'”
“I didn’t realize it because I didn’t have any of the symptoms they described.
“No numbness, acute pain, or anything. I simply dozed off to sleep. I didn’t know what it was, but I almost died.
“(The doctor) said five minutes later, I’d have been dead on arrival.
“The right side of my heart had completely stopped getting blood at all.”
