A Life of Restoration
Born in Mullins, South Carolina, Dr. Ivery J. White’s story began far from the titles of Bishop, theologian, author, and leader that would later mark his life. After moving to Missouri in 1976, he was raised in Chillicothe, where much of his life, faith, and character would be formed.
His early years included hardship and painful experiences that could easily have shaped the direction of his future. Yet pain would not have the final word. In Missouri, life also brought nurturing, growth, opportunity, and people who helped him see what was possible. Parents, family members, teachers, professors, spiritual leaders, and other mentors each left their imprint on his life.
Perhaps that is why Dr. White has always found himself drawn toward the person who is hurting, overlooked, or struggling to find a way forward. He has never had much affection for bullies, but he has always had a heart for the underdog.
That compassion eventually became part of a much larger calling: to help people discover that darkness does not have to be their permanent address—that through faith, truth, compassionate care, and the grace of God, there is still a path toward hope, healing, possibility, and wholeness.
Leadership & Calling
Ministry Leadership
Dr. White entered ministry at nineteen years old and began pastoring at twenty. Nearly four decades later, what began as the calling of a young preacher has developed into a lifetime of preaching, pastoral ministry, counseling, discipleship, leadership development, mentoring, and building people.
Throughout his pastoral ministry, he has led congregations through seasons of meaningful numerical and spiritual growth. One of his particular leadership strengths has been the ability to recognize what is missing, create practical systems and structures, develop leaders, and help ministries become healthier and more effective.
Today, Dr. White serves as Jurisdictional Prelate and Senior Bishop of New Covenant Fellowship of Apostolic Ministries, where he helps equip churches, pastors, and ministry leaders. The fellowship's reach extends beyond the United States, including oversight and ministry relationships with pastors and ministries in Pakistan.
His philosophy of leadership remains remarkably practical: develop people who can develop people. He trains leaders, trains trainers, mentors pastors, disciples believers, and helps ministries build structures capable of supporting both spiritual growth and lasting fruit.
He also serves as Director of Christian Education for Souls Harbor Church of God in Chillicothe, Missouri. Over the years, his service has been recognized through honors including lifetime achievement and leadership excellence awards. Yet the measure that matters most to him has never been a title or award—it is whether people were helped and whether the work produced lasting fruit.
Theological Authorship
Dr. White believes deeply in ministry that makes sense and works in real life. His teaching brings biblical and theological truth into the everyday places where people wrestle with leadership, relationships, pain, faith, purpose, and personal growth.
His commitment to higher education and serious theological preparation led him to Missouri Western State University and later to Regent University, where he earned graduate degrees including a Master of Divinity and Doctor of Theology.
Writing became another expression of his calling. He began writing in 2009 and publishing in 2012, and has since authored approximately twenty books addressing spiritual growth, leadership, healing, relationships, and practical Christian living.
Through his books, preaching, teaching, Heart Talk, Wednesday in the Word, and other educational ministry, Dr. White seeks to make profound truth understandable without making it shallow. His goal is not simply to give people more information, but to provide biblical wisdom they can actually use to grow, heal, lead, and live.
Healing & Restoration
The work of healing is not an abstract subject for Dr. White. His compassion for hurting people was formed through both personal experience and decades spent listening to the stories of others.
Through years of pastoral counseling, mentoring, teaching, and walking alongside people in difficult seasons, he became increasingly convinced that people need more than encouragement to simply endure their wounds. They need safe places to tell the truth, sound wisdom to help them understand what happened, spiritual formation that renews the mind, and compassionate support as they move toward wholeness.
That conviction ultimately helped give birth to The Healing Academy and The Healing Center in Chillicothe, Missouri. Through teaching, coaching, encouragement, inspirational media, and practical resources, these ministries extend the work that has characterized much of Dr. White’s life: helping hurting people discover hope and helping growing people become whole.
He is the father of six children—four daughters and two sons—and the grandfather of ten. Beyond every position he has held and every accomplishment attached to his name, his desired legacy is much simpler:
That he helped people. That he was compassionate and kind. And that when people found themselves surrounded by darkness, he helped shine enough light for them to see that hope, healing, and wholeness were still possible.