Chicago Gospel Announcers Guild Officers
    
Dennis Cole - President

Deacon Dennis E. Cole has been a member of the Cosmopolitan Church of Prayer since May, 1966 under the dynamic leadership of Dr. Charles G. Hayes.
He is Co-Chairman of the Deacon-Trustee Board; Co-Director of the Junior Church Department; Church Co-Radio/Television Announcer; and serves as Administrative Assistant to Dr. Hayes in Communications and Promotions. Dennis is employed by Katten Muchin Zavis as a Legal Assistant/Secretary in the Corporate Insurance Department. He attends The Moody Bible Institute, pursing an Associate Degree in Biblical Studies. Deacon Cole hold an undergraduate Certificate in Administrative Techniques from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.


Professor Reggie Miles - Vice-President


Reggie is an award winning radio broadcaster, with 20 years of radio announcing and audio production experience. He is a member of the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago and Grace Apostolic Church in Washington, DC. A graduate of Columbia College B.A. (Liberal Arts) and Governor State University M.A. (Media Communications), 

Reggie worked as a television audio engineer for the
Apostolic Church of God in Chicago, radio
announcer/host for Crawford Broadcasting WYBA FM and
station manager of WKKC FM, Kennedy King College in
Chicago before joining the elite faculty of Howard
University.

When he’s not teaching, he makes the transition from professor to announcer/creative service engineer for Clear Channel Communications, WCAO Heaven 600 AM, in Baltimore, Maryland under nationally recognized program director Lee Michaels. Reggie is also a recording engineer and community radio/LPFM radio consultant.  Professor Miles is a member of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters and the Broadcast Education Association.

Website - http://www.reggiemiles.8m.com



 
Robert Marovitz - Second Vice President

Bob Marovich is a gospel music collector and historian, and hosts "Gospel Memories" on Chicago's WLUW 88.7 FM. 

"Gospel Memories" is a monthly radio program featuring vintage gospel, spiritual and jubilee recordings. 

He is the second vice president of the Chicago Area Gospel Announcers Guild and member of the board of directors of the Chicago Gospel Music
Heritage Museum.              

Deacon Joseph Manuel - Treasurer

Immanuel Music Inc. was created in 1995  by Deacon Joseph N. Manuel Jr. He is a Deacon and member of the Mars Hill Baptist Church pastored by Rev. Clarence E. Stowers Jr.

Deacon Manuel is no stranger to the gospel music industry, having done Promotions for Evangelist Beverly Crawford, the late O’landa Draper
,Severn Records, New Israelite M.B. Church, and Delois Barrett Campbell & the Barrett sisters. He  was  the treasurer for the Chicago Music Ministry Alliance, and is a member and now treasurer of the Chicago Area Gospel Announcers Guild. He is a member of the Gospel Music Workshop America (G.M.W.A), SAGMA (STELLAR AWARDS), and Toastmasters International. In 2002 completed he all courses from the Michael Smith and Associates School Of Artist Management in Nashville Tenn. and was also a 2005 Horizon award Radio nominee for the GMWA Announcers Guild. He is the host of EXALTATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT IN THE MORNING, a Gospel music program that airs on WSSD 88.1 FM on Thursday mornings 4:00AM Until 8:00AM & Friday mornings from 4 AM TO 12 PM. In 2007 Deacon Manuel was selected as Gospel Music Program Director for WSSD.88.1 FM. In Chicago Ill.  Deacon Manuel also consults with Gospel Synergy magazine @
WWW.GospelSynergy.com.


        
 


Zadella Curtis - Financial Secretary

C.A.G.A.G  Financial secretary 6 yrs.
Charter member of C.A.G.A.G 9 yrs.
2004 receipient of G.M.W.A-G.A.G radio promotions award
Former SAGMA Advisory Bd member 3 yrs.
Advisory B D member Newsome Awards
Exec Dir. Promotions: Marketing
Nu sound Entertainment- Atlanta, GA.
Nu Wave Records- Jackson , MS .
Good Book Productions-Los Angeles CA .
Promotions World Class Records- Memphis, TN.
Masterpiece Records- Rocky Mount, NC
78 INC.- Washington D.C
Advance Records- Chicago , IL

Member: G.M.W.A   - G.M.A    -  S.A.G.M.A     - N.A.R.A.S    - A.A.R.C
Former Parent Sponsor: Director for 12 yrs. for the Award Winning Hyde park Gospel Choir
Church mother and member of Tree Of Life Mission
Pastor: Rev. Betty Ray
On-Air  Radio Annoucer   WSSD 88.1 FM

CEO- Mama C'z promotions


Shirley Bell - Secretary

CEO- SPB Music Ministries
Recording Gospel Artist

C.A.G.A.G Secretary
Member G.M.W.A
On-Air Radio announcer WSSD 88.1 F.M

 


 


A. Jean Jennings - Sgt-at-Arms

Arron Hegwood
Administrative Assistant

On-Air AnnouncerWKKC 89.3 FM (part of Kennedy King College in Chicago)
6800 S. Wentworth Ave. Chicago, IL 60621
(773) 297-8262
gospelmusic4u@gmail.com

My passion is working in the Gospel Industry and Community offering my services.  God has anointed me to inspire with a Gospel Music Ministry.  I’ve been in radio for 5 years.  I’ve been a member of the Chicago GAG for 5 years.  I am a faithful member of Apostolic Penticostal Church of Morgan Park where my Pastor is Bishop Ellis.  I am a Promotional Coordinator for ICEE Records and have worked with various artist including Dr. Charles G. Hayes and the Cosmopolitan Church of Prayer “Warriors” who currently have the #1 Inspirational Song across the Country (Urban and Gospel).

 

Geraldine Bates - Hospitality

Deborah Seals - Product Servicing

Rev. Falicia Campbell - Chaplain

Reverend Falicia Campbell is a native of Chicago, Illinois, and is the daughter of Jacqueline Campbell and the late Deacon Felix Campbell. Born again at a very early age, Rev. Campbell was raised in the Methodist Faith at the Grant Memorial A.M.E. Church of Chicago under the Pastorate of the late Rev. Harvey Walden, where she served as the Mascot for the Senior Ushers Board. At the age of twelve, Rev. Campbell joined the Mt. Calvary Baptist Church where she was baptized under the Pastorate of the late Rev. A. Edward Davis, Sr., and later the Rev. Lacey Kirk Curry.

After the organization of the Emmanuel Baptist Church, with Rev. Curry as the Pastor, Rev. Campbell was in that number of those who marched into the Sanctuary in January of 1974, and became a member of the Emmanuel Fellowship serving as the Youth Choir Director and was a faithful member of the January Calendar Circle assisting then Captain, the late Sis. Elizabeth Bell in any way she could. After leaving Emmanuel Baptist Church, she became the Minister of Music at Chicago’s Fountain of Life Baptist Church, pastored by the late Rev. Marvin J. Yancy.

Rev. Campbell is currently the Pastor of the Love, Faith and Hope Church, located at 1923 West 51st Street, Chicago, Illinois. She was ordained an Elder at the 2003 C.M.E. Annual Conference. Love, Faith and Hope is the home of the For Your Consciousness Ministries and also Felix’s Place, an emergency response shelter for single homeless women and single homeless women with children in the Englewood community.

Rev. Campbell’s educational pathway of graduating progressions began at St. Brendan Catholic Elementary School, Mercy Catholic High School, Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech and Theatre, and Governor’s State University where she earned a Masters of Arts in Communications Research. Subsequently, she went to earn her Masters of Divinity degree from Chicago’s Lutheran School of Theology, and is currently working on her Doctoral Studies in Preaching at the Chicago Theological Seminary.

Rev. Campbell is the proud mother of two daughters, Angela and Antionette. She is the elder sister of Gospel Recording Artist/Actress, Ms. LeCresia Campbell. In addition, she has three other siblings, brothers – Jasper, Peter and Patrick Campbell.