Billy Wilson currently serves as Executive Director of the International Center for Spiritual Renewal. The Center’s mission is to help restore spiritual integrity, promote scriptural unity, and encourage social responsibility in the body of Christ.

Currently, the Center is facilitating Empowered21: The Commission on Holy Spirit Empowerment in the 21st Century. This ongoing initiative brings together leaders, scholars, and next-generation voices from around the world to address issues in the modern Pentecostal/Charismatic Spirit-empowered movement. Reverend Wilson was selected as chair at its inception in 2008 and has successfully guided Empowered21 through 17 unique conversations on 5 continents with almost 10,000 leaders from 95 nations, which culminatinged in a Global Congress in April of 2010 with 10,000 attendees from 95 nations. Empowered21 conversations and events continues to focus on the future and function as a vehicle for addressing some of Christianity’s most pressing concerns issues.

The Center also coordinates the Awakening America Alliance with Rev. Wilson serving as chairman of the Alliance Executive Cabinet. The Awakening America Alliance is uniting Evangelical, Pentecostal and Charismatic movements for an increased awareness of the deep spiritual need in today’s America and to pursue a new Christ awakening in the United States.

Reverend Wilson also serves as is also the executive producer and host of Voice of Salvation Ministries, and host of World Impact with Billy Wilson. This is a weekly television program is broadcast in all 50 states and more than 170 nations with a potential viewing audience of 500 million  people each week. His radio ministry can be heard in numerous nations on World Impact Radio and 5 Minutes to Victory, contemporary radio broadcasts.

Reverend Wilson was recently elected to the Oral Roberts University Board of Trustees where he serves as vice-chair. He also serves on numerous other Boards boards and committees including the Board of Trustees for the National Interfaith Cable Coalition, Inc., the governing body providing oversight for Odyseey Networks to Faith and Values Media. In this way, he serves as a Pentecostal voice among the nation’s largest coalition of Christian and Jewish faith groups dedicated to media production, distribution, and promotion.

Reverend Wilson served as the Executive Officer for the Azusa Street Centennial. The Centennial was held in Los Angeles, California, April 25-29, 2006, with more than 50,000 people gathering from 106 nations of the world to celebrate the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at the Azusa Street Revival.

During more than 30 years of ministry, he has served as church administrator, international youth director, senior pastor and international evangelist personally ministering in over 70 nations. He has authored numerous articles, sermon series, video projects and books. His releases include Fasting Forward: Advancing Your Spiritual Life Through Fasting.

A native of Owensboro, Kentucky, Reverend Wilson graduated from Western Kentucky University with a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education in 1979. He graduated from the Church of God of Prophecy Bible Training Institute at Cleveland, Tennessee, in 1983. He received his Master of Arts degree with a concentration in Evangelism and World Missions at the Church of God Theological Seminary in Cleveland, Tennessee, in 1997. He is currently enrolled in the studying toward his Doctor or Ministry programdegree at from the Pentecostal Theological Seminary. He is an ordained bishop with ministry credentials presently recognized in both the Church of God of Prophecy and the Church of God of Prophecy.

He and his wife, Lisa, currently reside in Cleveland, Tennessee. They have one daughter, Sara, who presently serves as a missionary in Paraguay with her husband Shaun and their children Abigail and Samuel. The Wilsons’ son, Ashley, is currently planting a church in Lexington, Kentucky, along with his wife Jamie and their children Anna, Aaron and Amelia.

For further information contact: International Center for Spiritual Renewal – 423.478.7078 – www.icfsr.org