Lesly Joseph

Lesly G. Joseph, born in 1975, is the senior pastor and founder of Church of All Nations International. He is also a Doctor in Ministry and the founder of UBDN (Université Biblique Des Nations, Church of All Nations Bible University).
He is married and has three children: Lesly Keenan, Nathan Keith, and Evangeline.
Early life
Dr. Lesly JOSEPH grew up in Brooklyn, NY until the age of 15, and then followed his parents who moved to Miami, Florida.
In the beginning of the year 1998, he was studying in a Christian University and also working as a very young minister in a large church in . He was highly involved in the ministry of evangelism of students of a local university near by (PLU), and several successful on-site outreach programs were implemented. As he was praying one day, he felt deeply in his heart that he had to go to Paris, France as a missionary. He began to see himself walking in the streets of Paris and preaching in front of crowds.
This is how he left the US and arrived in Paris in September 1998 as a missionary to work and to establish a church under the spiritual guidance of his sending church in Graham, Washington.
Early 1999 he began to gather a few people (seven) in the basement of a gift shop lent to him for free twice a week at 8pm. After laboring for 5 and half months in Paris, he found a place to rent for Sunday meetings. In 2000, the Church was officially registered at the Police Prefecture of Paris under the law of 1905 for religious associations.
The church quickly grew to be an assembly of 60 members within a few months.
But this was not going to last, as the home church in the US asked him to come back to work and teach evangelism to the school. When he told his leaders about the worries concerning the early stage of this church in Paris, they just told him he had to give up his assembly in Paris to go back to the USA…
He was offered a comfortable position in the church of Graham, a large amount of money and a house for him and his wife so that they would give up the church in Paris and stay in the US to work for the mother church. Then the leaders came to France to officially close the church, because it was not based on their legalistic point of view.
After staying in the home church for 6 months and after a lot of prayers, Dr. Joseph came back to Paris in 2002 to find a group of only 5 people. They had no place to meet, no money and no help. But he kept on trusting in the vision he received.
Ministry
Up until today, here are the fruits of his ministry:
* A spreading ministry on several continents: Asia, Africa, Europe and America.
* Over 20,000 people baptised.
* Churches in Ghana, France, in the West Indies, in India & Pakistan with more than 100 churches under the guidance and influence of Church of All Nations’ ministries.
* In Guadeloupe (French West Indies), 7 churches and a Bible school.
* In Haiti, a missionary trip took place in November 2012 in order to ultimately implement an orphanage and a Bible school.
* Numerous missionnary trips all around the world (UK, Germany, China, India, The Netherlands, USA, Ghana...).
* Since 2000, Dr. Joseph spent countless hours preaching, not counting the seminars all over the world, the teachings given during mid-week services, and those given in the UBDN that he founded. The teachings of UBDN amount to several thousands supplementary hours of teachings.
* Thousands of people gave their lives to Christ through this ministry’s dedication and love for the souls.
* Numerous wedding ceremonies celebrated and hundreds of married couples restored through counseling.
* He coached several business and government leaders in France and around the world.
Activities
Dr. Joseph is involved in various activities through different associations he created: he writes books, creates music, helps the poor, teaches, gives leadership conferences, and is the president and founder of the CFCC (French Council of Christian Worship).
EDN Publishing
Dr. Joseph is the author of several books and brochures targeted to a large readership, men and women, young and older readers. Among these books are ’Dear Lord’ (a book gathering his personal thoughts and his daily prayers addressed to God) and ‘Gentlemen’s rules’.
EDN Records
Dr. Joseph writes, composes and produces Gospel music in eclectic styles : Hip Hop, Rap, Pop, Lounge (Jésus ma passion « Jesus my passion ») and even Afro-Caribbean (Sous le soleil « Under the sun »).
Entr'Aide
Entr’Aide is an organization located in Paris dedicated to helping the poor by reaching out to them in various ways (food, clothing, administration, daily needs…). It reaches out to native French and immigrants from around the world.
Dr. Joseph always had the desire to help the stripped & homeless and was able to convey the love for the needy to a team of volunteer.
EDN Radikalz
EDN Radikalz is a Christian youth group, gathering young people from 15 to 25 years old passionnate about Jesus and radical for him.
This group’s aim is to share the Gospel through all types of music (traditional & modern Gospel, Rap, R&B, Reggae, et Rock/Pop), and also various comedies, drawings, texts,…
CFCC (French Council of Christian Worship)
Dr. Joseph is the president and founder of the CFCC (French Council of Christian Worship), which purpose is to defend the dignity and the interests of the Christian of France.
Its goal is to facilitate and nurture meaningful relationships among member ministers, equipping and enabling them to be more effective in the callings, for the purpose of building and multiplying strong local churches in the nation of France and around the world.
UBDN (Church of All Nations Bible University)
Since 2007, « UBDN » (Church Of All Nations Bible University) has been established, and its mission is to train mature Christians to become students of the Bible, to become disciples of Christ and to reach the world. A branch of UBDN has also been created in the Caribbean islands, with more than 40 graduates to date, among which many have started and are pastoring various ministries. Since the creation of this Bible University, there have been 6 graduation ceremonies.
From the very beginning, UBDN was affiliated to the School of Ministry (USA), where people likeT. L. Osborn, Dr. Franck DAMAZIO, Bill SCHEIDLER, Pr. Wendell SMITH have taught.
After Lesly Joseph got his Doctorate in Ministry (DMin) in June 2012 at the Bakke Graduate University, UBDN merged with a theological university in California named Union University of California becoming its French branch, the French Language School of Theology, and Dr. Joseph became its dean. on October 1, 2013.
Media
Dr. Joseph has reached over 65 million people all around the world solely through the media : television, press, radio, internet… Lots of people around the nation of France saw and heard his testimony through French television.
Here are some example of his appearances in the French media:
* 66 Minutes, (French Sixth National Channel), 2nd of March 2008
This report showed Dr. Joseph’s path, from his beginning as a Marine to his present pastoral mission. They covered several weeks of his everyday life.
* , Publication of January 2008 (n347)
This magazine dedicated its first portrait of the year to Lesly Joseph, describing him as one of the men who help the very poor in their primary and urgent needs without expecting anything in return.
* The « 19/20 » (Television News), France 3 (French Third National Channel), 23rd of December 2008
In this report called France, land of mission, the journalists wanted to show « Christianity’s new face », precisely the evangelical churches through the Church of All Nations and the life of Lesly Joseph: outreach, evangelism, baptisms.
* « Dans les yeux d’Olivier », France 2 (French Second National Channel), 29th of March 2011
Through this T.V show called Les mystères de la foi (‘The mysteries of faith’), the French journalist Olivier Delacroix participated to some very important moments of the life of Church of All Nations, the re-location of the church to its new building and the dedicatory service was broadcast to the whole nation of France.

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