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Dr. Jerry M. Williams is the retired founder and senior pastor of Agape Word Fellowship in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is an Apostolic Spiritual Father who proclaims the kingdom of God is at hand with a life-changing message of unconditional love and acceptance, reconciliation, and restoration. He also has a history of church planting, training and equipping believers for the work of the ministry. 

 

Dr. Williams was the founding father of International Covenant Connection (ICC), a relational network connecting ministries in covenant. He served as president of Sonship Bible College for twenty-three years, he also serves the Body of Christ as a teacher, conference speaker, and consultant to churches in areas of church administration, ministry management and leadership development. 

 

Over the last fifty years, he has been a local church entrepreneur and has served as senior pastor of four churches in three states; preached as a missionary in various countries in Africa, and in Panama; hosted daily radio and weekly television programs, podcasts, and blogs; and has helped establish and plant other churches. He has also trained and developed church leaders and sent out numerous ministries into fruitful works. He currently hosts virtual church ministries: Agape Word Online and A Word Power Nugget.

 

He is also a retired North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission Certified Superior Court Mediator who was approved to conduct mediated settlement conferences in Superior Court civil actions. His mediation practice and interests included civil law actions, church and ministry disputes, family, business, consumer, employment, and intra-organization disputes. He was also a member of the North Carolina Bar Association, Dispute Resolution Section.

 

Dr. Williams was called to the Gospel ministry in 1974 and has been licensed and ordained by Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, and Full Gospel churches. He graduated from West Liberty State College, West Liberty, West Virginia, with a B.A. in Psychology; he attended the University of Minnesota Law School for two years prior to enrolling in seminary, where he earned a Master of Sacred Literature, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Trinity Theological Seminary in Newburgh, Indiana, and a Juris Doctor degree at William Howard Taft University’s Taft Law School in Santa Ana, California. 

  

Dr. Williams resides in Raleigh, North Carolina with his lovely wife Joyce. They have five children: Jason, Jerrae, Jenelle, Jereel, and Jeremiah.