Rod Parsley
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Parsley at World Harvest Church in 2015
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| Religion | Christianity |
| Denomination | Non-denominational Christianity, Pentecostal, Evangelical |
| Church | World Harvest Church |
| Personal | |
| Nationality | American |
| Home town | Columbus, Ohio |
| Born | Rodney Lee Parsley January 13, 1957 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Spouse | Joni Parsley (m. 1986) |
| Children | Ashton Blaire Parsley, Austin Chandler Parsley |
| Parents | James G. (Clyde) Parsley, Ellen Parsley |
| Senior posting | |
| Based in | Columbus, Ohio |
| Title | Senior Pastor |
| Period in office | c. 1977 - present |
| Religious career | |
| Website | RodParsley |
Rodney Lee "Rod" Parsley (born January 13, 1957) is a prominent American Christian minister, author, television host and evangelist. He is senior pastor of World Harvest Church, a large Pentecostal church founded in Columbus, Ohio with a sister campus in Elkhart, Indiana. Parsley is the founder and chancellor of Valor Christian College. He is the founder and president of The Center for Moral Clarity, a Christian grassroots advocacy organization, as well as the founder of Breakthrough (a media ministry), the Bridge of Hope missions organization, Harvest Preparatory School, World Harvest Ministerial Alliance, The Women's Clinic of Columbus, and iHarv
His television program, Breakthrough with Rod Parsley, airs daily on the Daystar TV Network, the Trinity Broadcasting Network, and The Word Network.
Parsley was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and was raised primarily in the Columbus area. His parents grew up in eastern Kentucky, and traveled there often to visit relatives when Parsley was a young boy. Young Parsley was raised as a Free Will Baptist, and had a "born-again" experience at Christian Center Church in Gahanna, Ohio, in the 1970s. After high school, he worked in real estate and at a pet-food factory before enrolling at Circleville Bible College (now Ohio Christian University).
As a young pastor, Parsley was strongly influenced by Dr. Lester Sumrall, an Indiana-based evangelist, missionary and broadcaster. Sumrall became Parsley's mentor, and the two traveled together often. He is married to Joni Parsley. They have a son, Austin, and a daughter, Ashton, both young adults. They live in Pickerington, an affluent suburb of Columbus.
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