Bishop Wellington Boone is a pastor and biblical strength coach who has been training Christian leaders for the past 50 years. He is a best-selling author and founder and chief prelate of Fellowship of International Churches. He is also president of Coalition on Revival and the Boone Foundation. For several decades he has served on boards advising megachurches and major Christian organizations and universities. He is a former member of the Board of Trustees of Regent University and the Evangelical Council of Financial Accountability (ECFA). The Regent University Library houses the Bishop Wellington Boone Collection that includes more than 40 years of his manuscripts, recordings, research, and other archives.
Bishop Boone teaches the inerrancy of the Word of God, a lifestyle of humility, prayer, and consecration, unborn life that begins at conception, servanthood, a biblical worldview of racial reconciliation, lifelong marriage between a man and a woman, and preparation for eternity. He was married to the late Katheryn Watley Boone for 48 years before her passing in 2022 and has three adult children and nine grandchildren.
Millions have seen him via Promise Keepers, Billy Graham Association, Christian television, and international ministries. He is recognized as a leading Black voice for reconciliation and biblical world view. He believes that the biblical principles of God’s sovereignty, respect for Jesus and the church, creative order, marriage, and sanctity of life are demonstrated most often in public policy by conservatives. His “Eternity Training” focuses on finding your destiny and developing Christlikeness, self-government and intimacy with God.
Quick video highlights from 50 years in ministry
Watch the Fox News author interview of Wellington Boone about his bold book Black Self-Genocide: What Black Lives Matter Won’t Say
Bishop Wellington Boone Collection at Regent University Library
Wellington Boone donated his ministry archives to the Regent University Library (below). In the Spring of 2010, they were received by Dr. Pat Robertson, University Chancellor (above). Click this link to view the video of tributes at this inspiring presentation event.
Ministry Highlights in 8 Minutes
Wellington and Katheryn Boone were married for 48 years, until her passing in 2022. They met at the American High School in Bremerhaven, Germany. He called her his Kingmaker and she rated him “an 11” on a scale of 1 to 10 before 80,000 men at a Chicago Promise Keepers stadium event. Watch this 8-minute video for that moment and other highlights of ministry events.
At a memorable Promise Keepers event in Nashville (above), Wellington Boone’s spiritual son Larry Jackson sang “Hear Our Prayer,” which he wrote in South Korea when they traveled there together for a time of prayer and consecration. Watch the stirring song of prayer.
Archives of the Wellington Boone Collection were delivered to Regent University Library by Cynthia Ellenwood (left), archives manager for Bishop Boone.
Bishop Boone has been a keynote speaker for Promise Keepers, ministry consultant, and in some cases a board member for national and international organizations:
Anglican Communion, in coordination with Bishop Bill Atwood
American Association of Christian Counselors with Tim Clinton
Coalition on Revival (president)
CRU (Campus Crusade for Christ) and its founder, the late Bill Bright
CBN’s 700 Club and his long association with the Robertson family
Regent University Library, founded by Pat Robertson, holds the Wellington Boone Archives
ECFA, Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, where he served on the board
TBN, where the late Jan Crouch produced his weekly TV show "Heaven in Your Home"
Family Research Council with Tony Perkins
Focus on the Family founded by Dr. James Dobson
Frederick Douglass Leadership Institute, directed by FOIC Bishop Garland Hunt, Sr.
March for Jesus, former member of the board and chairman.
Morningstar Ministries with Rick Joyner, Dave Yarnes, and Chris Reed where he has served on the Board for more than 20 years
New Life Christian Fellowship and Providence School, Jacksonville, Florida, where he also served many years on the board
NRB (National Religious Broadcasters)
Regent University, where he served many years on the Board of Trustees under the late Dr. Pat Robertson and remains active in university events.
Salvation Army. In addition to speaking at their events he often includes in his books the history of their founders and their great Christian work
Southern Baptist Convention. Published Wellington Boone’s first book, Breaking Through, to demonstrate their repentance for racism
TBN. Weekly series “Heaven in Your Home.” Praise the Lord broadcasts.
Victory Church, founded by Dennis Rouse and pastored by Johnson Bowie, where he also served many years on the board
Recognized Voice for Racial Reconciliation
Christian researcher George Barna and co-author Harry R. Jackson, Jr., named Bishop Wellington Boone the most outstanding Black voice for reconciliation in the 20th Century in their book High Impact African-American Churches.
Wellington Boone enlisted in the U.S. Army and served on active duty in Vietnam. (Above) With Army buddies in May 1968 before shipping off to Vietnam.
Bishop Wellington Boone – a proven, powerful, anointed, prophetic voice for spiritual awakening and racial reconciliation.
In the United States, Germany, and South Africa, Bishop Boone’s passion is building disciples who stand on the truth of biblical principals regardless of personal cost.
Biblical Strength Coach
For 50 years he has been developing national leaders from the local churches and ministries he has founded. He is a full-time Biblical Strength Coach who travels internationally, training pastors and leaders in the church and business communities how to lead from the strength of a genuine relationship to God. He teaches private consecration, conflict resolution, and biblical principles for forming national policy. He develops disciples who stand on the truth of Jesus Christ, remain faithful in marriage, and have a lasting impact on the culture without compromising on the Word of God.
The Bible says that Jesus commanded us to reach and DISCIPLE all nations.
“Jesus came and told his disciples, ‘I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you” (Matthew 28:18-20 NLT).
Associations & Establishments
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Fellowship of International Churches
Bishop Boone is the founder and chief prelate of the Fellowship of International Churches, a cross-cultural, global network of bishops, pastors, missionaries, and Bible-based churches and Bible schools. Thousands of churches and Bible schools that he and his bishops oversee are located in Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Virginia, Wisconsin, as well as other states and nations in Africa, Asia, and Europe.
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International Discipleship and Missions—Germany
Bishop Boone and his wife returned to Germany in 2017 to establish a mission base to “Win Them, Train Them, and Send Them” from the New Reformation Embassy. He will establish a 24-hour prayer network, Biblical Institute for Leadership Development (BILD-Germany), and missions outreaches to immigrants as well as crusades in Germany, Europe, and other nations.
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International Discipleship and Missions—South Africa
In 2001 in South Africa with his daughter Nicole he established a missionary outreach providing supplemental Learning Centers for the children of Kurland, near Port Elizabeth, South Africa, called Goshen International. Since that time, the Goshen team has dramatically improved the lives of Black and Colored children and their families by supporting their entire educational experience from the early years through college. In 2019 Bishop and Mrs. Boone returned to South Africa to establish a new Eternity Training outreach to churches alongside a mission of conflict reconciliation and revival.