Integrity Music recording artist Jonathan Nelson, his wife Chris, and their two children, are headed to the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida area to join Faith Center International. “Bishop Henry Fernandez will be my new pastor and covering,” Nelson says of his new church home. “This has been a very emotional time for my family and myself to leave this family of believers that we’ve known and loved for so long but God has called us to a new place.”
 
For seven years, Nelson has been minister of music at Baltimore, Maryland’s Empowerment Temple. Within the last couple of years, he’s become one of the most promising stars on the gospel circuit. He’s either written or co-written such modern day gospel smashes as Youth for Christ’s “The Struggle is Over” which was #1 on Billboard magazine’s Hot Gospel songs chart for a dozen weeks in 2007. He also penned other chart hits such as Donald Lawrence’s Top 10 smash “Healed”, Rudolph McKissick Jr.’s “The Right Place” and “Manifest” from Bishop T.D. Jake’s Grammy-winning “A Wing and a Prayer” CD.

Nelson is now writing hit songs for himself. The uplifting radio single “My Name is Victory” has spent a year on the Billboard Hot Gospel songs chart and over six of those months in the Top Ten. The second single, a rousing ballad entitled “Right Now Praise” is now quickly climbing the charts. The CD of the same name won three Stellar Awards and two Dove Award nominations.