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Rev. Dr. Brian A. Cash, D.Min.

Lead Pastor

On January 1, 2020, East Mt. Zion Baptist Church embraced a new season of ministry by calling Reverend Brian Cash as Senior Pastor.

Rooted in the church’s scriptural vision from Luke 4:18–19, Pastor Cash is committed to preaching the Gospel, nurturing the body of Christ, and serving the community to glorify God, the Father, and bring reconciliation through Jesus Christ.

Raised in a Christian home, Pastor Cash accepted Christ at an early age and began preaching at just fourteen. By seventeen, he was licensed to preach at St. John Baptist Church. He later served as Youth Director for the Calvary Hill District Association, building a strong foundation in youth and community ministry.

After graduating from Cleveland Central Catholic High School, Pastor Cash was a recipient of the Josephine Scruggs Scholarship and attended American Baptist College in Nashville, TN, where he graduated with honors in 2013 as valedictorian with a Bachelor of Theology degree. During this time, he remained deeply connected to Cleveland, working with groups like Cleveland Renaissance, Inc., and Preachers with A Purpose to drive spiritual and social change in his hometown.

Driven by a passion for urban ministry and theological depth, Pastor Cash earned a Master of Divinity from Vanderbilt University Divinity School with a concentration in Black Church Studies.

He was active in campus leadership and served under Pastor Jimmy Greer at Friendship Baptist Church in Nashville, where he was ordained and gained valuable experience ministering to youth, college students, and adults alike.

From 2017 to 2020, Pastor Cash served as Minister to Children, Youth, and Young Adults at New Mount Olive Baptist Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, under Dr. Marcus Davidson. In February 2020, the Lord led him back to Cleveland to serve as the Senior Pastor of the historic East Mt. Zion Baptist Church.

Pastor Cash is dedicated to empowering believers to grow spiritually and live purposefully. A lifelong learner, he earned a Doctor of Ministry degree from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, focusing on community witness and leadership. His doctoral work centered on building intergenerational bridges within aging, traditional churches.

Above all, Pastor Cash is passionate about evangelism, discipleship, and reconciling the world to God through Christ.

Christa Eileen Cash

First Lady

Lady Christa Eileen Cash has encouraged, equipped, and empowered her peers and others to discover their God-given purposes in life.

Consistent with God’s call on her life, Christa is passionate about offering practical strategies to young women to identify and cultivate their identities as daughters of Christ. In Spring 2019, for example, Christa published a blog, “Debunk the Junk,” documenting her challenges as a young Christian woman facing adulthood and how she relied upon the Word of God and her relationship with the LORD to navigate biblically-sound solutions. Today, considering her recent move to Cleveland, Christa is pursuing new opportunities to minister, especially to young girls, college-age women, and Millennials pursuing their own journeys with the LORD.

Christa also has a passion for caring for babies and children. While her undergraduate degree was in psychology, shortly after graduating from University of Miami in Florida, she wrestled with next steps.

She soon realized that managing the complex challenges faced by babies and children which are addressed by speech therapy professionals was a very loving and practical way for her to serve. She then pursued a Master of Science degree in Speech Language Pathology from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. After several externships, Christa was employed as an acute care speech therapist at Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte, NC.Today, she serves as a Speech Language Pathologist for Cleveland Clinic Children’s in the inpatient setting.In closing, alongside her husband, Pastor Cash, Christa looks forward to honoring God’s call on her life to serve at her new church home of East Mount Zion Baptist Church. She is excitedly anticipating the ways He will use her to reach the heart of His people.
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Protect Your Season

August 18, 2024 - by Rev. Brian A. Cash, Pastor

Exodus 1:6-22

6 Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, 7 but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.

8 Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. 9 “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. 10 Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.”

11 So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh. 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites 13 and worked them ruthlessly. 14 They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.

15 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, 16 “When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.” 17 The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live. 18 Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”

19 The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.”

20 So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous. 21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.

22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.