The author, JOSEPH SS HOPEWELL'S
first passion is MISSIONS & EVANGELISM. He is a preacher, teacher, mentor, educator, minister, musician, song writer, a talented artist and the author of the SOUL CONVERSATIONS series of books. His recent works include TIDYING THE HOUSE, WOVEN & DOMINION. He is also humbly known for his love of drawing and art. Some of his various sketches/artworks graces the faces of countless Greeting cards around the world.
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He is a minister of the SPIRIT FILLED FELLOWSHIP and was instrumental in establishment of the movement in 2005. He is the APOSTOLIC BISHOP and the INTERNATIONAL MISSION OVERSEER for this Body of Christ.
[www.sffglobal.org] He serves on the academic board of The Spirit Filled Aacdemy & on the educational board of JHM Global Academy.

He has been in pastoral ministry for over 35 years having started in ministry as a young man at an early age. He pastured his first whilst he was a student in the university in the seventies.

He is married to Pastor Jannet Hopewell [an accomplished author & minister] and they have four children, Sophie, Anna Marie, Michelle & Smart Jnr, who are all pastors and are involved in international missions.

He was raised in the Prophetic & Charismatic tradition of the Celestial Church of Christ. He eventually became ordained by the Trinity Evangelical Church before being appointed and elevated by the Spirit Filled Fellowship in 2005 to the office of The Apostolic Bishop.

He is responsible for the affairs of over 1,000 churches scattered in the Diaspora around the world and has been responsible for bringing various large Church bodies under the COVERING of the fellowship. He oversees missions work in the United States, United Kingdom, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Malawi, Pakistan, India and in other places. He currently oversees over 2,000 pastors and the numbers are growing by the day.

His pastoral and ministry style is PROPHETIC!
His anointing is most suited for breaking down strongholds of the enemy! He is a PRAYER WARRIOR who is TOTALLY reliant on the POWER of the Name & BLOOD of the Lamb!

He is a passionate advocate of EQAULITY FOR WOMEN both in ministry and in life. And he spends a substantial part of his ministry time and work in these areas, with special emphasis on encouraging churches to allow WOMEN to rise to their TRUE DESTINY within the body of Christ as CHRIST intended when He positioned women for His BIRTH, in His MINISTRY, at His DEATH and especially at His RESURRECTION!

He is affectionately known as THE MESSENGER! When asked who his favourite prophets are, he said; "I submit myself to GOD ALMIGHTY and I am forever praying and asking him that I may be made ready by Him & enabled to be SPIRIT DRIVEN all the time in the tradition of John The Baptist, Ezekiel, Jeremiah & Isaiah for the purpose of serving His Mighty Kingdom for such a time as this."