Pastor Elisha Lawson

Pastor Elisha Lawson is a native of Kinston, North Carolina.  He is the senior pastor and visionary of Jesus World Outreach Center. 

At the age of 18, he enlisted with the United States Army, where he served honorably, before retiring in 1995.  Through Pastor Lawson, Jesus World Outreach Center was birthed in 1986 and today bears several covenant churches in Germany and the United States with regular outreach mission support to the Philippines, India, Kenya and Uganda. 

Pastor Lawson is also the founder of the Real Men’s Conferences held annually in Heidelberg, Germany.  Other annual conferences are hosted in America, Asia, Europe and Africa and in September 2003, Nigeria for the very first time.  He’s a man of confidence, commitment, compassion, communication and good conduct; a true shepherd, who leads, guides, protects and provides for his flock.

Pastor Lawson is blessed with numerous talents.  He released his first album “Light” in 1993 and has gone on to produce another, “The Outreach Family Project”.  His radio broadcasts reaches millions in Southeast Asia and Africa, as does his TV broadcasts to millions in Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and America.   Not only is he an anointed speaker of the Word, but also Pastor Lawson is an author with two publications to his credit entitled, “Did I Really Get Saved?” and “It’s About Vision, Not People”.

He is an avid sportsman with a passion for keeping fit and healthy and also a “Do It Yourself” enthusiast.  Pastor Lawson is married to Pastor Phyllis, his wife of 24 years.  He is the father of 3 robust boys, Jamal, Elisha and Elijah, two grandsons Caleb and Isaac and a granddaughter Ariana.