Senior Executive Administrator & Overseas Bishop

Bishop Elect Emmett Johnson is a native of Augusta, Ga. He served twenty-seven years in the United States Armed Forces and is the Education Director for SafetyNet Academy in Montgomery, Alabama. He is a corporate organizational leader and conducts ministry around the world with a passion for leading people to the knowledge of Jesus Christ.

After being a part of a very prominent and growing congregation, Fresh Anointing House of Worship (Montgomery, AL), his pastor, Bishop Kyle Searcy, released him to fulfill the mandate for ministry deposited in his spirit by God from his years of faithful service. He immediately began working to make full proof of the apostolic mantle God placed on his life.

In 2004, Pastor Johnson Founded and is the current Pastor of Gateway Ministries, a non-profit organization and church located in Millbrook, AL. He believes that if there is a biblical foundation, a sound plan, it will produce a structure of faith that if full of potential and power. A place where hope is inspired and promise is revealed in the hearts and minds of dedicated believers’. Additionally, it’s a place where the people and community grow together. As his tent stakes were strengthened he began to expand into different territories to duplicate what God had given him for ministry globally. To this end, a partnership with Anointed Remnant International Ministries commenced. With the support of Bishop Willie Bradley, they’ve begun to establish global partnerships with men and women of faith without a covering to take the message of the kingdom to the world.

Bishop Elect Johnson is recognized by many as a voice that reverberates across pulpits and through airways with a charismatic flair to touch, change, and challenge the Body of Christ to victory. He extends his support to those in need and has a heart of compassion for the hurting with a message of empowerment to the oppressed.

Beyond the pulpit, he is known as an in-season apostolic preacher that is reachable and teachable. He is an infectious leader, visionary, proactive thinker, and entrepreneur. He serves and leads a plethora community, civic and church organizations. He has countless years of in ministry various positions and continues to be the of voice of innovation, inspiration, and influence in Christendom to many both far and near. He holds degrees from Ashford University, Faulkner University, Excelsior University, and The Community College of the Air Force.

He is a father of four with wife of thirty-eight years, Deborah Johnson. Bishop Elect Emmett Johnson credits a praying wife, his upbringing and God’s grace and mercy as the source of his perseverance and endurance.