Minister Fredel Williamson

Before the pulpit, Fredel Williamson's name was already known in the federal courts of Atlanta — and, in time, in the United States Supreme Court. He was convicted in a federal cocaine-conspiracy case and spent nearly twenty-five years in federal prison.

His appeal reached the highest court in the land. In Williamson v. United States, 512 U.S. 594 (1994), the Supreme Court used his case to draw the modern limits of the hearsay rule — a landmark evidence ruling that law students still study today. The Court vacated the judgment against him and sent the case back to the lower courts.

Somewhere inside those walls, God reached him. The man who walked out was not the man who walked in.

For years since, Minister Fredel has taught the Word — calm, deliberate, the way a professor teaches a class. For two and a half years he sat with the Book of Revelation alongside Rev. Oliver Legend; they did not preach it, they studied it, flipping back to Daniel, to Isaiah, to Matthew, line by line.

He does not shout at you. He teaches you. The ministry he leads is non-denominational; it does not divide. It stands on Scripture, on peace, and on the people.