Raymond, the son of the late Wilson H.  and May V. Johnson is the eighth child in a line of Johnsons.  He envisioned at a very young age the calling the Lord placed on his life. His struggle was with how he was going to be able to accomplish what the Lord had revealed to him for his lifetime mission.

 

He was trained in the ministry by the late Bishop Ernest Eugene Baltimore as a member of King’s Apostles Holiness Church of God in Ranson, West Virginia. He recounts this as some of his most memorable times in the ministry.

 

Upon completion of his pastoral training, he launched into a remodel project on a duplex located at 410 North Queen Street which would house his newly birthed church. Elder Johnson opened the doors of Trinity Temple Church of God on October 10, 1982. The mentoring relationship of the senior and junior pastors continued long after Elder Johnson began his own independent ministry.

 

The first year of his pastoral leadership was under the supervision of Bishop Baltimore. He was ordained as a National Elder by Bishop Baltimore on November 23, 1983. The senior cleric returned later to formally install his son-in-the - gospel as pastor of Trinity Temple.

 

Between 1982 and 1989 the church was at two locations: 410 North Queen Street and a store front at 214 North Queen Street. In1988, the Lord showed Elder Johnson a former pool hall building at 127 North  Charles Street ( Tuskegee Drive). The original church building on this site was completed and occupied in October 1989.

 

His education included an undergraduate degree from Shepherd University and a Master’s Degree in Safety from West Virginia University  College of Engineering and Mineral Resources.

 

Elder Johnson was consecrated to the Office of Bishop on November 24, 2007 by Bishop Floyd B. Brown. Bishop  Johnson added a 9500 square foot addition to the present church building.  The  addition was completed and occupied  in March 2013.