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Presiding Bishop F. Josephus Johnson II, better known as Bishop Joey Johnson, is the Organizer and Senior Pastor of The House of the Lord in Akron, Ohio.

Bishop Johnson is a renowned Bible Scholar, counselor, educator, author, conference speaker and workshop facilitator.  His experience in leading one of the city’s largest churches for over thirty years has equipped him to impart wisdom for issues related to church growth and development, business management, leadership and team building.

As a visionary, Bishop Johnson founded The Pastoral Mentoring Institute, where he utilizes his considerable skills to train and mentor senior pastors and other church leaders to be more effective in their local churches and in making an impact on today’s society and generations to come for the cause of Jesus Christ.  As a lover of The Holy Scriptures with keen intellectual curiosity and insatiable appetite for reading, Bishop Johnson founded Emmanuel Christian Academy and Logos Bible Institute to present opportunities to both children and adults to be educated and equipped in the foundation of God’s Word.  He recently founded the company, Finished In The Fire, a series of workshops designed to challenge individuals by examining the process of developing and refining their character.

Bishop Johnson was promoted to Bishopric through the providential wisdom of God and at the request of the senior pastors he mentors.  His consecration and ordination in 2004 was accompanied by having the Doctor of Divinity degree conferred upon him by the Joint College of African American Pentecostal Bishops Congress.  Within the Christian community at large, Bishop Johnson’s apostolic responsibilities include the oversight of Beth-El Fellowship of Visionary Churches.  Beth-El was created to be a source of encouragement, practical leadership development and team building, as well as a haven of rest for senior pastors, their spouses, and other church leadership.  He offers over three decades of pastoral wisdom and guidance to the senior pastors of these churches and their congregations.

In 1983, Bishop Johnson authored The Church: The Family of Families.  The popularity and power of his 1997 sermon series entitled, “Family Mess” inspired him to write God Is Greater Than Family Mess in which he illustrates God’s sovereignty and power to work in the midst of the family problems of Abraham, the father of Israel and the Christian faith, and in the family trials of his spiritual children, believers in Jesus the Christ.  Bishop Johnson’s latest books are, The Eight Ministries of the Holy Spirit and The Eight Ministries of the Holy Spirit Study Guide.

Bishop Johnson is married to Elder Cathy Johnson; they have two adult children and six grandchildren.