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Pastor Donald E. Battle
Speaking God’s Message With Boldness!

Pastor Donald E. Battle is one of the nation’s premier Pastors
whose message of hope, love, and prosperity in God has
compelled countless people to pursue God’s best for their lives.
A native of Birmingham, Alabama, Pastor Battle met and married
his high school sweetheart and wife of 37 years, Gwen Battle. To
their union, they have been blessed with three lovely daughters,
Minister TaVondria Battle (Vonnie B), Jamie Howard and Christin
Smith, all of whom work diligently within the ministry. Pastors
Donald and Gwen are also blessed with six grandchildren.

For six years, Pastor Battle served in the U.S Army as well as 15
years in Georgia law enforcement as a police detective for the
City of Atlanta. He graduated from Georgia State University with
a B.S. in criminal justice. To his educational merit he has also
received a Masters of Divinity and an honorary doctorate degree.
Despite his great success in the law enforcement arena, Pastor
Battle could not ignore God’s calling. Out of obedience and the

profound leading of the Holy Spirit, he and his wife co-founded Divine Faith Baptist Church in
1990. Pastor Battle’s consistent obedience to God has taken Divine Faith Baptist Church from
60 members to what is now known as Divine Faith Ministries International (DFMI). With a current
membership of over 8,000, DFMI is now one church in three locations: Jonesboro, Buford, and
the Generation Now youth facility also located in Jonesboro.

Equipping disciples for Christ, Divine Faith Ministries International is experiencing exponential
growth both spiritually and physically. The biblical foundation of DFMI is to teach God’s plan for
humanity. The ministry is a model church that expresses God’s love through community outreach
and ministry abroad in Haiti. Through Pastor Battle’s vision of Joseph’s Warehouse, DFMI has
become the number one distributor of food and clothing in the community of Clayton County. His
genuine love for people and uncompromising message has afforded Pastor Battle the opportunity
to minister throughout the U.S. and abroad; and he continues to operate under the anointing of
Jesus Christ knowing that it is the favor God that has brought him thus far.

Pastor Battle is a true community leader who has served as president of the Policy Action
Committee, for the Association of Christian Ministers of Clayton County. Under his leadership, the
Clayton County Public Schools’ Mentorship Forum was established. The forum includes County
business leaders, state court judges, politicians and pastors who serve as advisers to assist high
school students with establishing and realizing their goals. Pastor Battle also led the charge to
establish a youth offenders program in Clayton County that encourages state court judges to get
the churches involved with the young adult offenders’ community service program.

As servants of God and of the people in the communities surrounding the ministry, Pastors
Donald and Gwen Battle operate a full service Christian Academy and School of Biblical Studies.
DFMI also has a state of the art television studio where the Soaring With Eagles Television
Broadcast is produced and reaches thousands of homes weekly. Various recording artists and
ministries have utilized the studio for their recording needs. The studio facility is also home to
one of the nation’s most innovative youth broadcasts, Stir-It-Up TV, hosted by Minister TaVondria
Battle also known to the youth as Vonnie B.

Currently DFMI holds four powerful worship services each Sunday and two midweek services all
of which are streamed live. Also, Pastor Battle hosts early morning prayer so he can personally
touch and agree with his members and global partners virtually through Justin TV. In a time when
the economy has caused businesses and major corporations to downsize, DFMI is in the process
of building a Family Life Center adjacent to the south church facility, completing renovations to
the youth facility, and has expanded to a new north church facility in Buford, Georgia. Pastors
Donald and Gwen Battle not only teach faith but they live it and are spearheading these
expansion projects debt free!

Pastor Battle respects the mantle of great leadership especially that of his spiritual father and
mentor, Rod Parsley, world-renowned Pastor of World Harvest Church and Breakthrough
Ministries in Columbus, Ohio. Under Pastor Parsley’s tutelage, Pastor Battle served as the World
Harvest Church Ministerial Fellowship South East Regional Director for the states of Georgia and
Florida. He currently serves as the National Director of WHCMF. In an effort to bring together a
covenant fellowship amongst pastors and leaders, Pastor Battle founded the International
Covenant of Christian Churches organization (I3C).

Pastor Battle’s message of faith and belief that with God ALL things are possible is what gives
him the fervor and fortitude to preach the gospel with boldness! This awesome man of God
continues to speak life to the lost and hope to the broken-hearted and will not stop until he has
impacted the world for Jesus Christ!

To book Pastor Donald E. Battle for your organization or ministry event, please contact
Elder Verna Walsh at 770-814-9992 Ext. 266 or via email at vwalsh@divinefaith.org