About the author
Pastor Larry Stockstill is the former senior pastor of Bethany World Prayer Center, a multisite congregation begun by his father in 1963, of which he assumed leadership in 1983. His son Jonathan assumed the role of senior pastor in October of 2011. His wife, Melanie, and he have five other children, all of whom are involved in the ministry.
Stockstill's book "The Remnant: Restoring Integrity to American Ministry" is distributed nationwide and worldwide to promote renewed standards of holiness in leadership. He is also director of Surge, a worldwide church-planting movement that planted 20,000 new churches in 12 world zones from 2000-2010, and serves on the board of Church Growth International in Seoul, Korea, with David Yonggi Cho.