Our Pastor
Joshua Paul Logan is an anointed radicalized trailblazer, a revolutionary force of ecclesiastic and social change, an Ambassador of our Lord and King’s One Universal Kingdom, The Church Universal.
A child after God’s own heart he is the blessed son of his beloved parents, the late Patriarch Father Abraham, and Matriarch Mother Elaine Logan. He is well known for his many business accomplishments, entrepreneurial endeavors, and social activism. His initial water baptism was at the Hope Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church in Utica, New York.
His seeds of faith were sewn and cultivated in him by Rev. Dr. E. M. Wilson, and the Greater Walters AMEZ Church family. In March of 1990, Joshua was baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ and filled with the Holy Spirit evidenced by the speaking in other tongues at the True Believers Glorious Pentecostal Church under the pastorate of now Apostle, Ernest Quick Jr.
In 1991, Joshua became Minister Logan under the leadership of now Bishop Dennis Jefferson (Pastor of the P.E.C. – P.A.W.). Minister Logan served as the Youth President and Pastoral Armor Bearer to Bishop Jefferson in Palmer Park, Maryland until 1995 when he was ordained as an Elder in the World Assemblies of Restoration where His Excellency, Bishop James D. Nelson Sr. was the Presiding Prelate.
In 1999, with the help of The Lord, he founded a revolutionary cross denominational movement of ministries, now known as Promised Land Ministries.
On May 26, 2002, the Church of the Promised Land had its first Sunday Morning Worship Celebration. Pastor Logan was installed as Pastor of the Church of the Promised Land in November of 2002 by the World Assemblies of Restoration.
The Church of the Promised Land endured trials and tribulations but with due diligence, and the Lord’s empowerment, The Lord blessed the works of the hands of his devoted servant, the Church of the Promised Land became the Churches of the Promised Land, where he is the Founder and Chief Protector, having established, and or affiliated churches, and Para-church ministries in Washington DC, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, Texas, California, New York, Philadelphia, Missouri, North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. His ministry without walls is headquartered in Metropolitan Washington DC, “The CHURCH Without Walls”, PLM-HCOC. On
The Metropolitan of the 3rd Provincial Metropolis (Promised Land Ministries – Cross Denominational Ministerial Alliance,) of the autocephalous Eastern Rite Orthodox – Holy Communion Of Churches “HCOC”, and Coadjutor to the Patriarch Archbishop, ††Timothy Paul of the HCOC, he was consecrated with unbroken lines of Apostolic Succession (by the HCOC) traceable directly to the historical ancient faith church founded by Jesus Christ and His Holy Apostles, he possesses a provocative Apostolic mantle on his life, and is a humbled man of vision, and with power.
October 4, 2014, ††Joshua Paul was joined in Holy Matrimony to Lady Vonda Yvette Logan becoming her king, priest, protector, provider, lover, confidant, and friend.
In May of 2018, ††Joshua Paul Logan was appointed as Senior Pastor of Oak Grove A.M.E. Zion Church in Gaithersburg, MD by Bishop W. Darin Moore. ††Joshua Paul is a true example of what God can do through a revolutionary submitted to the Will of God with a Radically Shifted Paradigm! Follow the journey as he continues to lead the people of God to their Promised Land. God is raising up an army, “The Game Changers – THE CHURCH UNIVERSAL: Ancient in Faith, Convergent in Doctrine, and Resurgent in Revolutionary Actions.
In the words of ††Joshua Paul Logan; “We WILL FIGHT, and WE WILL WIN, in the Name of JESUS, our Lord and reigning King!”