The influential leader john edmund haggai biography

Dr. John Edmund Haggai, founder of Haggai International, a ministry to equip indigenous leaders for world evangelism to reach their own nations with the gospel, passed away at the age of 96 on the morning of November 18, 2020.

Born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1924, Dr.

Haggai served for 75 years in the ministry, leaving a legacy that equipped “more than 123,800 leaders in 189 nations who had led millions to a saving knowledge of Jesus,” according to CEO Dr. Bev Upton Williams of the international ministry, who wrote the tribute on Facebook.

According to the ministry’s official website, “a visit to Asia in the early 1960s convinced Haggai that changes in global geopolitics, brought about by the end of colonialism, required a new strategy for world evangelism.

In 1969, after years of research, prayer, and development, he presided over the first advanced leadership seminar, designed to em