Garland R. Hunt is a proven strategic leader with a dynamic ministry background and extensive experience in criminal justice, religious liberty, and race relations. His executive leadership spans some 30 years, with the Fellowship of International Churches, Wellington Boone Ministries and New Generation Campus Ministries. He has extensive work as an advocate for religious liberty and criminal justice reform. He is co-Founder of the One Race Racial Healing Movement. He also serves as a consultant with Alliance Defending Freedom and co-founder of the Coalition of Religious Liberty in Georgia. Hunt serves on the Board of Directors and as the Vice Chairman of Crossroads Prison Ministries. After completing a B.A. from Howard University and JD from Howard University School of Law, Hunt served as a judicial law clerk and staff attorney with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. In 2010, he was commissioner of the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice. In March 2015, Hunt was installed as Senior Pastor of the Father’s House in Norcross Georgia. Each week, Bishop Hunt demonstrates his pastor’s heart through his passionate preaching and vibrant leadership. He recently authored "Crisis in America: A Christian Response" (2021). In 2023, Hunt was appointed as a board member to the Department of Juvenile Justice by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp. Garland and his lovely wife Eileen have been married for 38 years. They have three grown children, Garland Jr., Christa, Jeremy, daughter in laws Melissa and Ky, son in law Brian and seven grandchildren.