At age 17 Pastor John had a powerful God encounter that sent him “searching for the One who touched him.” After ten years of religious activity, he found the truth and received Jesus Christ as Savior. Holy Spirit’s supernatural activity was in his life from the beginning. But it wasn’t until years later that he recognized and received the full baptism and breakthrough of Holy Spirit. Pastor John is a revivalist pastor who is passionate that the unbelieving and ungifted hear the Word and have personal encounters with God. Since 2009, he has guided ELM to be a church that hungers for the presence of God. He has been used to develop a church culture that embraces the full work of the atonement, all the gifts and manifestations of Holy Spirit, and a supernatural Kingdom. PJ has been married to Roxanne since 1983. They have five grown children and lots of beautiful grandchildren.
