The Voices
Daniel Kolenda
Daniel Kolenda is an American Pentecostal evangelist and the President / CEO (since 2008) of Christ for all Nations (CfaN), the global evangelism ministry founded by Reinhard Bonnke (Tier 1).
Short bio
Daniel Kolenda is an American Pentecostal evangelist and the President / CEO (since 2008) of Christ for all Nations (CfaN), the global evangelism ministry founded by Reinhard Bonnke (Tier 1). At Bonnke's 2017 farewell crusade in Lagos, Nigeria, Bonnke publicly and officially appointed Kolenda as his successor; Kolenda had been functioning in CfaN leadership since 2008. Under Kolenda's continued leadership, CfaN has reported tens of millions of recorded decisions for Christ through mass-crusade evangelism, primarily in Africa but also in Asia, Latin America, and other contexts. CfaN reports 14 offices in 12 countries across 6 continents and 190+ million books published in 104 languages. Kolenda is also senior pastor of Nations Church (Central Florida) — a local-church base — and leads Nations College, a ministry training institution. He has authored multiple books and articulated CfaN's "Decade of Double Harvest" vision aiming at 150 million souls in the current decade.
What they believed
- Rapture Timing — Pre-millennial pre-tribulation rapture in classical Pentecostal-dispensational framework.
- Cessation — Strong continuationist; classical Pentecostal-AOG framework.
- Healing in Atonement — Affirmed in Bonnke-stream framework; healing follows gospel preaching as confirmation rather than primary emphasis.
- Deliverance Ministry Today — Affirmed; deliverance is integral to CfaN African-crusade context where traditional-religion / animism backgrounds require explicit deliverance ministry. *Slaying Dragons* is the explicit articulation.
- Baptism in Spirit Timing — Classical Pentecostal-AOG framework — Spirit-baptism distinct subsequent experience normatively initiated with tongues as initial evidence.
- Theology and Pattern — Modern revivals — particularly mass-conversion contexts in Africa and other unreached regions — are valid Spirit-given outpourings.
Notable works
3 listed
| Title | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Live Before You Die: Discovering God's Will for Your Life | 2018 | Kolenda's articulation of God's-will-for-the-believer's-life framework. |
| Slaying Dragons: What Exorcists See — And What We Should Know | Kolenda's articulation of deliverance ministry observed across CfaN's African crusade contexts. | |
| Christ for all Nations broadcast and CfaN crusade archive | 2008 | [founder: write here] |