Our Bishop – Eagles' Nest Ministries Church

Our Bishop: Daniel J. Richardson, Senior Pastor

Bishop Daniel J. Richardson is an Apostolic Prophetic Visionary who thirsts after the very heart of God. He stands on the “watchwords” of Isaiah 62:10 because they embody the ministry standard and the spiritual impetus to execute the life-altering mandate for Ministry that God has commanded over his life. He is appointed to minister to the multi-dimensional needs of God’s people—a charge which he executes faithfully and without restraint.

On June 24, 2008, while serving as a Senior Pastor, he was Consecrated to the Office of Overseer in the Covenant Ecumenical Fellowship and Cathedral Assemblies (CEFCA), and appointed as the CEFCA Overseer Southern Diocese—an assignment that served as a “gateway” for the emergence of the Apostolic Reformation in the southern region of the United States. In 2010 he was appointed as CEFCA’s General Secretary where he continued to exhibit a measure of fortitude, faithfulness and focus that allowed him to serve as a front runner in executing the demands of his various Kingdom assignments.

On December 1, 2012, Bishop Richardson was Consecrated a Prince in the Lord’s Church by his Apostolic Father in the Faith, Bishop Donald Hilliard, II, Senior Pastor, Cathedral International (Perth Amboy, NJ) and Presiding Prelate of CEFCA and the newly established Pastors Leadership Alliance (PLA). Bishop Hilliard was joined by Co-Consecrators, Bishop H. Curtis Douglas and Bishop L. Spenser Smith, Episcopates from both the Joint College of African American Pentecostal Bishops, where the Archbishop J. Delano Ellis, II, serves as Metropolitan-Archbishop, and Kingdom Fellowship College of Bishops, where Bishop Ralph Dennis is the Presiding Prelate, respectively. It was during this process that Bishop Richardson was formally inducted as a Joint College Episcopate.

Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people. Isaiah 62:10

Bishop Richardson currently serves as the Senior Pastor of Eagles’ Nest Ministries Church in Huntsville, Alabama. As a spiritual “tent-maker,” he exercises his God-given Kingdom Authority to minister discipleship and evangelism. He is committed to equipping the saints of Eagles’ Nest and the surrounding community for the work of ministry and teaching excellence in execution in every facet of Ministry. Under his hand, ENMC has been forging new ground as an Apostolic Prophetic Church with over 35 functional ministries, fully operational in Five-Fold Ministry for the purpose of remapping the spiritual landscape of the region over which God has given him oversight.

Bishop Richardson is also the visionary and chief executive officer of DJR Gateway To The Nations Covenant Ministries (DJR GTTN)—his personal ministry, birthed by the Holy Spirit, to expand his spiritual “sphere of influence” from a local pastorate to one that would anticipate and then meet the needs of pastors, churches and ministries in a regional, national, and international realm. He is established in Covenant Relationship, providing spiritual guidance and covering to eight (8) Pastors, Churches, Para-Ministries and businesses. Through these connections, his international ministry has reached mission fields in Egypt, Germany, Mozambique, Japan, Afghanistan, Asia and Israel.

A powerfully anointed prolific preacher, Bishop Richardson evangelizes the Gospel of Christ with purpose and reckless abandon in the Lord! He is anointed to deliver a Word of healing, life, hope and deliverance so that the bound are loosed, the hurting are revived and restored, and the lost become the recipients of the fullness of the blessings of salvation. As a result, he is often in demand as a preacher, teacher, evangelist and facilitator for a broad variety of conferences, revivals and worship services—preaching the Word unto salvation is his passion! A relentless prayer warrior and intercessor with boundless faith in the Lord, Bishop Richardson was invited to submit a prayer for publication in the internationally acclaimed Gospel-centric Epitome Magazine. Anointed with a “breakthrough” anointing in praise and worship, he is fully able, under the unction of the Holy Spirit to usher God’s people into His Presence. Spiritually equipped as an apostle, prophet, pastor, teacher, and evangelist, he is positioned as God’s vessel to evoke a spiritual harvest. He is innovative and motivated in his desire for God to use him as a tool to equip and empower the saints to fully engage in every viable opportunity for in-reach and outreach to advance the Kingdom of God.

A graduate of the University of Alabama, School of Engineering, Bishop Richardson is the son of the late Mother Essie Richardson and the late Deacon Garnell Richardson of Shady Grove, Alabama. He is married to the lovely Lady Tiffany Elizabeth Richardson and he is the proud father of five wonderful children: Daniel, Joshua, Christian, Jasmine, and Gabriel.

By the unction of the Holy Spirit, this “champion of change” is God’s choice vessel, fully committed to the cause of Christ…and doing all to the glory of Almighty God.