About Clarion Seminary and School of Ministry

 Dr. Robert Johnson is the President and Founder of Clarion Seminary

Dr. Lee Martin is the Texas Regional Director for Clarion Seminary and the administrative assistant to Dr. Johnson 

 “The more training a minister has, the wider his field of usefulness will be. Training one’s mind promotes accuracy and preciseness of thought. It is significant that when God chose a man to write most of the epistles in the New Testament, he selected Paul – a man who had one of the best educations of his time.” -Gordon Lindsay

Clarion Professors are Listed in the Student Manual by the Courses They Teach. 

A Word from the President:

The word “clarion” literally means “a clear and certain sound.” In ancient times, it was the kind of sound you would expect to hear from the King’s Herald, bearing a message from the King himself. Clarion World Ministries began in the Autumn of 1987. It was originally designed to provide “a clear and certain sound” for the training and instruction needed by native pastors and evangelists throughout the world and to provide for them the equipment necessary for reaching their own nations with the gospel of Jesus Christ. It was later incorporated and developed partnership with Dr. Lyndon Purifoy and New Covenant Ministries. We soon expanded to include the founding and operation of Schools of Ministry, first in the Philippine Islands, then in Uganda, Zimbabwe, and of course, the United States. Our purpose has always been to share the heart of God with the ends of the earth. That is still our main thrust.

We conduct Leadership Training Seminars in foreign countries on a regular basis: sometimes as many as five or six in one calender year. We help to set up Bible Schools for the training of native pastors and evangelists, and provide the necessary curriculum including courses on audio and video cassette tapes. We provide bibles, concordances, dictionaries, and other helpful study books. When finances are available, we provide computers, printers, tape duplicators, sound systems, overhead projectors, and chain saws. We often take to the foreign field money to purchase horses, bicycles, motorbikes, and other vehicles for transportation. We buy clothes for the needy, medicine for the sick, and food for the hungry. Sometimes we buy, or help to buy plots of land to construct church buildings. We have provided the finances to build lots of churches and/or parsonages over the years.

Now God has provided the opportunity for us to help our brethren here in the USA in a very special way. Many powerful preachers of the Word of God have never had the opportunity to attend a Bible School and earn a degree. In our day the lack of a degree can sometimes be a real hindrance.

CSM has been accredited by the National Accrediting Agency for Christian Schools (NAACS) in Atlanta, Georgia. We can award credits for life experience, years spent in the military and/or active ministry, and we can transfer credits from other reputable institutions. While many of us had thought we could never recover all our years of labor and turn them toward a valuable degree, Clarion School of Ministry now makes it possible. A ministerial degree may well be within the grasp of all who read this. We are honored that God has favored us, opening the way for our affiliation with this great institution, providing us a way to help you claim the degree you need and deserve.

For His Glory,


Dr. Robert O. Johnson
President and Founder