House Of The Lord
Akron OH
44320-4002
Who we are
We purpose to glorify God, through the power of the Holy Spirit, by winning the lost at any cost, accepting them as members of this local family of God, making disciples of all who choose to follow God, and equipping them for ministry, first in Akron and then in all the world.
The vision of The House Of The Lord is to glorify God by providing saving and restorative healing and support for those in Northeastern Ohio who are consciously hurting, through the Good News of Jesus Christ, offered in a relational environment, so that these people may develop significant relationships with God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, and other believers.
We strive to do this primarily through services that are celebrations of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, which are built around the Spirit-filled preaching of the Word of God and a sense of the presence of God, which is experienced in two predominant impressions: God's transcendent greatness, which is experienced as a sense of awe or excitement when we sense He is present; as well as God's immanent closeness, which is experienced as a sense of God's love that often manifests itself in a corporate worship experience with sensations of community and love from other people in the community. This sense of the presence of God would be accompanied by a freedom to express mature emotions, which would result in the conviction of sinners who are present and Christians who are built up, committed to Christ and His church, challenged to grow towards His vision for them, and demonstrating all of this in evangelism.
We also strive to realize our vision through Christian Education and discipleship that entails maturing people in the image of Christ, through the Sunday School and educational events, and the one another ministry of believers who exercise their spiritual gifts, through the power of the Holy Spirit, one-on-one and in small groups, so that the local body of Christ may build itself up in love.
We continue to pray that God would open doors for our continued expansion as we seek to minister to the Akron Community, Northeast Ohio, and the world.
The vision of The House Of The Lord is to glorify God by providing saving and restorative healing and support for those in Northeastern Ohio who are consciously hurting, through the Good News of Jesus Christ, offered in a relational environment, so that these people may develop significant relationships with God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, and other believers.
We strive to do this primarily through services that are celebrations of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, which are built around the Spirit-filled preaching of the Word of God and a sense of the presence of God, which is experienced in two predominant impressions: God's transcendent greatness, which is experienced as a sense of awe or excitement when we sense He is present; as well as God's immanent closeness, which is experienced as a sense of God's love that often manifests itself in a corporate worship experience with sensations of community and love from other people in the community. This sense of the presence of God would be accompanied by a freedom to express mature emotions, which would result in the conviction of sinners who are present and Christians who are built up, committed to Christ and His church, challenged to grow towards His vision for them, and demonstrating all of this in evangelism.
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Leadership
Leader Name:
Bishop Joey Johnson
Leader Position:
Organizer & Senior Pastor
Phone:
Leader Email:
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Leader Bio:
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, author, educator, conference speaker and workshop facilitator. His experience in leading one of the city’s largest churches for over forty 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 practical and down to earth skills as a communicator to train and mentor senior pastors and church leaders to be more effective in their local churches. As a result, these pastors and church leaders are being better prepared and equipped to impact 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.
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 four decades of pastoral wisdom and guidance to the senior pastors of these churches and their congregations.
Bishop Johnson’s heart for the Akron Community includes participation in the National Day of Prayer Service on the Courthouse Steps, hosting a Citywide Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration Service, and helping out a local grocery store with a Henry’s ACME Day which resulted in hundreds of members walking across the street and buying groceries.
The Fugitive Safe Surrender Program, a collaboration with the U.S. Marshall Service, in 2007 and 2009 and the Ohio State Attorney General in 2014, and various Court Systems throughout Summit County, the Fugitive Safe Surrender (FSS) was hosted by Bishop Johnson and The House of the Lord®. Designed to give those with criminal arrest warrants against them a “second chance” and “favorable consideration” at sentencing, more than 5000 persons over those three sessions peacefully surrendered.
Bishop Johnson’s most recent community collaboration is The Village at New Seasons which features Low Income Senior Citizen housing and a fully staffed health care facility operated by SUMMA Health System. This facility is the only emergency health care facility in the West Akron Community.
Among his many accolades, Bishop Johnson is the winner of the first-ever “Praiseworthy Sermons! Contest,” in April of 2007, conducted by Church Business Magazine. The winning sermon was “Restoring God’s Witness To The Streets.” And on June 27th, 2007, Saint Thomas College and Theological Seminary conferred upon Bishop Johnson the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. In addition, he holds a graduate-level reading certificate in cultural anthropology and New Testament Interpretation from the Theology Department of Creighton University in 2004.
In 1983, Bishop Johnson authored The Church: The Family of Families, reprinted March 2013. The popularity and power of his 1997 sermon series entitled, “Family Mess” inspired him to write God Is Greater Than Family Mess, whose popularity encouraged the updated and revised version, reprinted in 2009. Bishop Johnson completed his third book, The Eight Ministries of the Holy Spirit: From Denomination to Reformation: An Introduction to Biblecostalism® and released the accompanying Study Guide. In 2011 Bishop Johnson completed and released two books, The Biblical World through New Glasses and Lord of the Flies: A Leadership Fable.
Bishop Johnson is married to Pastor Cathy Johnson. In October 2014, Bishop Joey and Pastor Cathy, were the 2014 Community Service Awardees of the 2014 Achieving the Dreams Celebration of Project GRAD. Project GRAD Akron is a non-profit education reform program, which began in the Akron Public Schools in 2002.
As Bishop Johnson increasingly ministers to the community of faith not only in the city of Akron, but around the world, his participation and influence in the community continues to grow on so many different levels. One example of this is his commitment to attacking and solving the problem of poverty in our city. To do this, Bishop Johnson continues to humbly invite city and state leaders to sit at the same table. He is careful to reject the role of a hero, while he has embraced, with the good of all in mind, the role of being a host of conversations.
Bishop Johnson is a renowned Bible Scholar, counselor, author, educator, conference speaker and workshop facilitator. His experience in leading one of the city’s largest churches for over forty 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 practical and down to earth skills as a communicator to train and mentor senior pastors and church leaders to be more effective in their local churches. As a result, these pastors and church leaders are being better prepared and equipped to impact 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.
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 four decades of pastoral wisdom and guidance to the senior pastors of these churches and their congregations.
Bishop Johnson’s heart for the Akron Community includes participation in the National Day of Prayer Service on the Courthouse Steps, hosting a Citywide Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration Service, and helping out a local grocery store with a Henry’s ACME Day which resulted in hundreds of members walking across the street and buying groceries.
The Fugitive Safe Surrender Program, a collaboration with the U.S. Marshall Service, in 2007 and 2009 and the Ohio State Attorney General in 2014, and various Court Systems throughout Summit County, the Fugitive Safe Surrender (FSS) was hosted by Bishop Johnson and The House of the Lord®. Designed to give those with criminal arrest warrants against them a “second chance” and “favorable consideration” at sentencing, more than 5000 persons over those three sessions peacefully surrendered.
Bishop Johnson’s most recent community collaboration is The Village at New Seasons which features Low Income Senior Citizen housing and a fully staffed health care facility operated by SUMMA Health System. This facility is the only emergency health care facility in the West Akron Community.
Among his many accolades, Bishop Johnson is the winner of the first-ever “Praiseworthy Sermons! Contest,” in April of 2007, conducted by Church Business Magazine. The winning sermon was “Restoring God’s Witness To The Streets.” And on June 27th, 2007, Saint Thomas College and Theological Seminary conferred upon Bishop Johnson the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity. In addition, he holds a graduate-level reading certificate in cultural anthropology and New Testament Interpretation from the Theology Department of Creighton University in 2004.
In 1983, Bishop Johnson authored The Church: The Family of Families, reprinted March 2013. The popularity and power of his 1997 sermon series entitled, “Family Mess” inspired him to write God Is Greater Than Family Mess, whose popularity encouraged the updated and revised version, reprinted in 2009. Bishop Johnson completed his third book, The Eight Ministries of the Holy Spirit: From Denomination to Reformation: An Introduction to Biblecostalism® and released the accompanying Study Guide. In 2011 Bishop Johnson completed and released two books, The Biblical World through New Glasses and Lord of the Flies: A Leadership Fable.
Bishop Johnson is married to Pastor Cathy Johnson. In October 2014, Bishop Joey and Pastor Cathy, were the 2014 Community Service Awardees of the 2014 Achieving the Dreams Celebration of Project GRAD. Project GRAD Akron is a non-profit education reform program, which began in the Akron Public Schools in 2002.
As Bishop Johnson increasingly ministers to the community of faith not only in the city of Akron, but around the world, his participation and influence in the community continues to grow on so many different levels. One example of this is his commitment to attacking and solving the problem of poverty in our city. To do this, Bishop Johnson continues to humbly invite city and state leaders to sit at the same table. He is careful to reject the role of a hero, while he has embraced, with the good of all in mind, the role of being a host of conversations.
Administration
Admin Name:
Sis. Pat Reese
Admin Position:
Secretary/ Receptionist
Phone:
Fax:
3308641617
Admin Email:
Click here to contact Sis. Pat Reese
Driving Directions to House Of The Lord
Travel/Direction Tips
From Canton:
Follow I-77 N to V. Odom Ave/Rt. 261 exit, Go straight through the flashing light, The off ramp becomes Diagonal Rd., The House of the Lord is on the left-hand side.
From Kent and Youngstown:
Follow I-76 W to I-77 N, Get off at the V. Odom Ave/Rt. 261 exit, Go straight through the flashing light, The off ramp becomes Diagonal Rd., The House of the Lord is on the left-hand side.
From Cleveland:
Follow I-77 S to V. Odom Ave./Rt. 261 exit, Turn left on Wooster Ave., Turn left on Frederick Blvd. (first light), Turn right on Diagonal Rd. (first light), The House of the Lord is on the left-hand side.
Follow I-77 N to V. Odom Ave/Rt. 261 exit, Go straight through the flashing light, The off ramp becomes Diagonal Rd., The House of the Lord is on the left-hand side.
From Kent and Youngstown:
Follow I-76 W to I-77 N, Get off at the V. Odom Ave/Rt. 261 exit, Go straight through the flashing light, The off ramp becomes Diagonal Rd., The House of the Lord is on the left-hand side.
From Cleveland:
Follow I-77 S to V. Odom Ave./Rt. 261 exit, Turn left on Wooster Ave., Turn left on Frederick Blvd. (first light), Turn right on Diagonal Rd. (first light), The House of the Lord is on the left-hand side.
House Of The Lord Service Times
Praise & Worship Service Schedule
Sunday Service - 8:00 AM & 10:30 AM
Wednesday (Mid-week) - 7:00 PM
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Sunday Service - 8:00 AM & 10:30 AM
Wednesday (Mid-week) - 7:00 PM
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Radio Broadcast Schedule
Weekdays, 11:30-12:00 Noon, WHK 1220 AM
Internet Broadcasts (LightSource.com )
Television Broadcasts Schedule
Monday & Wednesday at 7:00 AM, PAX Cable Channel 23
Weekdays, 11:30-12:00 Noon, WHK 1220 AM
Internet Broadcasts (LightSource.com )
Television Broadcasts Schedule
Monday & Wednesday at 7:00 AM, PAX Cable Channel 23
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Office Hours
Sunday: 8:00-8:40 AM, 11:00-11:30 AM, 1:00-1:30 PM
Daily: 8:30 AM - 6:30 PM {5:00 PM on Friday}
The Church offices are closed on Saturday.
Sunday: 8:00-8:40 AM, 11:00-11:30 AM, 1:00-1:30 PM
Daily: 8:30 AM - 6:30 PM {5:00 PM on Friday}
The Church offices are closed on Saturday.
House Of The Lord History
Grant me, O Lord...
Grant me, O Lord, to know what I ought to know,to love what I ought to love, to praise what delights Thee most, to value what is precious in Thy sight, to hate what is offensive to Thee. Do not suffer me to judge according to the sight of my eyes, nor to pass sentence according to the hearing of the ears of ignorant men; but to discern with a true judgment between things visible and spiritual, and above all, always to inquire what is the good pleasure of Thy will.
House Of The Lord listing was last updated on the 2nd of January, 2020
