[4] Kolenda is a fifth-generation preacher who attended the Brownsville Revival School of Ministry in Pensacola, and later graduated from the Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida.

He has led tens of millions of people to Christ through massive open-air evangelistic campaigns in some of the most difficult and remote locations on Earth.

[5] Kolenda's work includes hosting two internationally syndicated television programs and authoring eight books, with bestsellers such as LIVE Before You Die and Slaying Dragons.

[6] He founded the CfaN Evangelism Bootcamp, aiming to "multiply labourers for the sake of the harvest," leading to the launch of hundreds of ministers and ministries.

[10] A few days earlier, on May 11, 2020, he had declared on the Christ for all Nations UK Facebook page, that no sickness or disease could stand in the presence of God and called on his readers to be "a light in the darkness" and not "cower in fear like those in the world whose only hope is in science, medicine, politics and economics.