Reverend Dr. Elliott Cuff

Reverend Elliott Cuff is the senior pastor of the Lincoln Heights Missionary Baptist Church, Woodlawn, Ohio.  Dr. Cuff is known as a visionary leader who builds his ministry around transforming the lives of the disadvantaged, the disenchanted and the distressed masses through an anointed message of the gospel that promotes liberation, empowerment, and deliverance; especially for families and individuals broken through the power of sinful displacement.  He is a strong advocate for economic self-sufficiency, for community based education and educational reform, as well as for the involvement of private and governmental partnerships in restoring moral, economic, social integrity and wholeness to depressed communities.

Since coming to Lincoln Heights, Dr. Cuff has founded and organized the Voices of the Valley, a consortium of pastors in valley churches whose concern, goals and interests is to impact and effect the total community.  Also, Dr. Cuff is currently leading his congregation in the development of a vision project entitled “The Isaiah Oasis” which is being launched with the construction of a five million dollar multipurpose center that will serve and provide an array of social, human, economic, and spiritual programs for families, children, and youth. 

Dr. Cuff, as a part of mission team from Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention, has preached and taught in Nigeria, 2003 and South Africa, 1999.  In 2005, Dr. Cuff was selected to be a participant in the Eli Lilly Pastoral Program scheduled for international immersion missions in 2006, 2007 and 2008.  Also in 2005 Dr. Cuff was appointed to the Curriculum Committee, Congress of Christian Education, National Baptist Convention, and U.S.A.  Dr. Cuff has preached extensively in churches, conventions, colleges around the nation, as well as in several nations in Africa.

Dr. Cuff is a graduate of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the New York Theological Seminary, where he earned the Master of Divinity Degree, and the United Theological Seminary in Dayton Ohio where he earned the Doctor of Ministry Degree in Social Justice Preaching.  Dr. Cuff is also a life member in the NAACP and holds joint membership in the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature.  He has written many articles and essays for Christian publications, including his sermon work in the African American Pulpit published by Judson Press and his essay on African American preaching published in the Jubilee Bible by the American Bible Society.  In April 1999, Dr. Cuff was inducted into the distinguished Board of Preachers, Martin Luther King, Jr. Chapel, Morehouse College, in Atlanta Georgia.  Dr. Cuff is married to the vivacious and charming Virginia E. Cuff.  And they are the proud parents of their daughter, Lorell Evelyn Cuff.  Dr. Cuff’s preaching motto is, “Be Radical, Be Relevant, but most of all, Be Right!”