Attempt something so great for God, it’s doomed to failure unless God be in it.   

-Dr. John Edmund Haggai

Attempt something so great for God, it’s doomed to failure unless God be in it.   

-Dr. John Edmund Haggai

Attempt something so great for God, it’s doomed to failure unless God be in it.

-Dr. John Edmund Haggai

Perimeter Church, as well as my life, have been shaped in countless ways by Dr. Haggai. I would hate to think where my ministry and our church would have been without the friendship, instruction and insights of Dr. Haggai.

So I am uniquely honored and blessed to have been a disciple of Dr. Haggai. His ministry will live on through my life and ministry as well as untold numbers of people like me and ministries like Perimeter. Few will be as worthy of his Master’s words to him entering glory, “Well done thou good and faithful servant.”

Pastor Randy Pope
Founding Pastor, Perimeter Church, Johns Creek, GA
President of Life on Life Ministries

Perimeter Church, as well as my life, have been shaped in countless ways by Dr. Haggai. I would hate to think where my ministry and our church would have been without the friendship, instruction and insights of Dr. Haggai.

So I am uniquely honored and blessed to have been a disciple of Dr. Haggai. His ministry will live on through my life and ministry as well as untold numbers of people like me and ministries like Perimeter. Few will be as worthy of his Master’s words to him entering glory, “Well done thou good and faithful servant.”

Pastor Randy Pope

Founding Pastor, Perimeter Church, Johns Creek, GA
President of Life on Life Ministries

Perimeter Church, as well as my life, have been shaped in countless ways by Dr. Haggai. I would hate to think where my ministry and our church would have been without the friendship, instruction and insights of Dr. Haggai.

So I am uniquely honored and blessed to have been a disciple of Dr. Haggai. His ministry will live on through my life and ministry as well as untold numbers of people like me and ministries like Perimeter. Few will be as worthy of his Master’s words to him entering glory, “Well done thou good and faithful servant.”

Pastor Randy Pope

Founding Pastor, Perimeter Church
Johns Creek, GA
President of Life on Life Ministries

A look back on the life of Dr. John Edmund Haggai

  • Early Years

    John Haggai was born on 27 February 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky. Here he is on his great-grandfather’s lap, with his mother, Mildred Daisy Steere Haggai, and grandfather, Edmund T. Steere.

  • Called To China

    As a 10-year-old boy in Garards Fort, Pennsylvania, John Haggai felt God calling him to serve as a missionary in China. He had accepted Christ as Savior and Lord at 4 ½ and was called to preach at age 6.

  • Family

    John Haggai (age 17)(back left) with his brothers, Tom (age 10) and Ted (16), and Rev. Waddy A. Haggai and Mildred Haggai. At the time, his father pastored Brookville Baptist Church in Holbrook, Massachusetts.

Recent Tributes

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Notable Reflections

“John Haggai was a man who did not just speak about God, but who truly experienced Him.”

Woodrow Walker

Founding Pastor
Cross Culture Church, Lithonia, GA

“I am uniquely honored and blessed to have been a disciple of Dr. John Edmund Haggai.”

Randy Pope

Founding Pastor
Perimeter Church, Johns Creek, GA

“I have learned untold life lessons from Dr. John Edmund Haggai.”

Dr. Michael Youssef

Founding Rector
The Church of the Apostles
Atlanta, GA

“John Edmund Haggai never wavered in his determination to fully obey the Great Commission.”

Dr. William M. Hinson

Notable Reflections

“I have learned untold life lessons from Dr. John Edmund Haggai.”

Dr. Michael Youssef

Founding Rector
The Church of the Apostles
Atlanta, GA

“I am uniquely honored and blessed to have been a disciple of Dr. John Edmund Haggai.”

Randy Pope

Founding Pastor
Perimeter Church, Johns Creek, GA

“John Haggai was a man who did not just speak about God, but who truly experienced Him.”

Woodrow Walker

Founding Pastor
Cross Culture Church, Lithonia, GA

“John Edmund Haggai never wavered in his determination to fully obey the Great Commission.”

Dr. William M. Hinson

Notable Reflections

“John Haggai was a man who did not just speak about God, but who truly experienced Him.”

Woodrow Walker

Founding Pastor
Cross Culture Church, Lithonia, GA

“I am uniquely honored and blessed to have been a disciple of Dr. Haggai.”

Randy Pope

Founding Pastor
Perimeter Church, Johns Creek, GA

“I have learned untold life lessons from John Haggai.”

Dr. Michael Youssef

Founding Rector
The Church of the Apostles, Atlanta, GA

“John Edmund Haggai never wavered in his determination to fully obey the Great Commission.”

Dr. William M. Hinson