Bruce Wilkinson

Bruce Wilkinson is a popular speaker, #1 New York Times best-selling author, leader of various global and humanitarian causes, and media producer.  He has written over 60 books in 30 languages, been #1 in New York Times, #1 in the Wall Street Journal, and #1 in USA Today. His is the only book in history to win “Book of the Year” two years in a row.  Publisher’s Weekly reported The Prayer of Jabez as the “fastest selling book of all time” (2001), and the first religious non-fiction to hit the #1 New York Times in first week was A Life God Rewards.  Bruce has served on the Overview Committee of the New King James Version of the Bible; he is also the author of the Outlines of the Books of the Bible for the best-selling Open Bible, and is Executive Editor of three Bibles. He is the author of The Prayer of Jabez, The Secrets of the Vine, A Life God Rewards, Beyond Jabez, Set Apart, Experiencing Spiritual Breakthroughs, and The DreamGiver.

Bruce built the largest seminar organization to the religious market in the world and has been the keynote speaker to Presidents, CEO’s, Marriage and Family conferences and major national events including stadiums of 30,000 to 80,000.

Mr. Wilkinson has conducted and keynoted national leadership conferences literally around the world. He has launched and led the massive global initiative, WorldTeach that recruited and trained over 30,000 indigenous leaders in 83 nations to conduct various life skill courses.

Bruce launched Heart for Africa (previously Dream for Africa) which mobilized first-world volunteers who planted over 500,000 backyard vegetable gardens for the orphans and hungry. He also launched the “Beat the Drum for AIDS” movement and recruited over 1,000 college students from eleven nations to conduct week-long AIDS training in every high school in the #1 HIV/AIDS nation in the world with dramatic results solidified by various local initiatives.

At the request of the President of Kenya (President Moi), Mr. Wilkinson worked to produce the most award-winning motion picture on AIDS: Beat the Drum (28 awards), now in distribution in over 100 nations. He has been a featured guest on many major television and radio shows, and has been a keynote speaker on over a hundred internationally distributed video/TV sessions. He is currently working on a major new Hollywood motion picture

Bruce is married to Darlene with three children and six grandchildren. The Wilkinsons reside outside of Atlanta, Georgia.