Daniel Kolenda at Camp Meeting 2026

Missionary Evangelist & President of Christ for all Nations

Daniel Kolenda is a missionary evangelist whose ministry has carried the Gospel to some of the most remote and difficult places on earth. A fifth-generation preacher, he serves as President and CEO of Christ for all Nations (CfaN), the global evangelistic ministry founded by Reinhard Bonnke in 1974. Bonnke personally chose Kolenda as his successor, and the two ministered side by side until Bonnke's passing in 2019 — a deliberate handing-on of one of the largest evangelistic mandates of the modern era.

Under his leadership, CfaN has continued to host some of the largest Gospel campaigns in history. Kolenda has personally led tens of millions of people to Christ face-to-face through massive open-air meetings, and the ministry has now recorded more than 100 million documented decisions for Christ across five decades. Its reach extends far beyond the crusade field: CfaN has printed over 190 million books in 104 languages and operates fourteen offices across twelve countries on six continents.

His burden is not only to reap a harvest but to raise the reapers. Through the "Decade of Double Harvest" vision he is believing for 150 million salvations to be documented by 2030, and to that end he founded the CfaN Evangelism Bootcamp in Orlando — an intensive training ground that has already launched hundreds of evangelists into the nations. He sums up the assignment in a single phrase: to be "in hot pursuit of a generation for Christ."

Beyond the platform, Kolenda is the Lead Pastor of Nations Church in Orlando, Florida, and the author of eight books, including the bestsellers "LIVE Before You Die" and "Slaying Dragons." He hosts two internationally syndicated television programs and has been a defining voice at gatherings like The Send, calling a younger generation back to bold, public witness. He was trained at the Brownsville Revival School of Ministry and is a graduate of Southeastern University.

At Camp Meeting 2026, Daniel Kolenda brings that evangelistic fire to the Fertitta Center in Houston, Texas. Expect preaching that leaves no room for spectators — a clear call to salvation, an expectation of signs following the Word, and the same unrelenting passion for souls that has carried his ministry from the mission field to the world's largest open-air altars.