Rev. Dr. Curtis L. West, Jr. was born and reared in the small town of Homer, Louisiana. He is the fourth of six children of the late Rev. Curtis L. West, Sr., and Dorothy Anne West.Dr. West is a 1990 graduate of Homer High School in Homer, Louisiana. He graduated in 1995 from Grambling State University in Grambling, Louisiana with a B.A. degree in Psychology. In 1998, he received a Master of Divinity Degree from the Interdenominational Theological Center (Phillips School of Theology) in Atlanta, Georgia with a concentration in Christian Education.

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There, he was presented with the R.B. Shorts Pastoral Award and the B. Julian Smith Social Justice Award. Dr. West earned his Doctor of Ministry degree from Perkins School of Theology, in Dallas Texas in May of 2016. His emphasis was on creating an Intergenerational Ministry Model in the local church. Dr. West is an Ordained Elder in Full Connection in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. He has served as the Dean of Mississippi Leadership Training School and is involved with many organizations including the SCLC, Rainbow PUSH Coalition, NAACP, Optimist International Club, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., and has served on many boards.Recently, Dr. West was invited by former Vice President Al Gore to the Union Theological Seminary in New York to study “Ministry in the Time of Climate Change”. He is a graduate of the Mississippi Black Leadership Institute and has received the Pastor of the Year Award by the Mississippi Gospel Music Awards. Dr. West received special recognition from the Louisiana House of Representatives and the NAACP Presidential Award in Homer, LA.Dr. West was joined in blessed matrimony to Rev. Amarylis Didley West of Augusta, GA, and is the father of two lovely daughters, Cymone and Lauryn, and one son, Curtis L. West, III.