Pastor Stephen E. Richardson is the Pastor of Jordan Temple M.B. Church.  He pastors over 1,000 and is known as the “miracle preacher”. Rev. Richardson took over as leader of Jordan Temple in February, 1993, when his father-in-law and pastor, Rev. Willie F. Jordan Sr. passed. Over the past eleven years the gospel message has drawn hundreds to Christ through Pastor Richardson, and the church has continued to proper. The church owns its main sanctuary, a parking lot, the church annex, and two coach buses, and in January 2003 we purchased a 12,500 foot Christian Family Educational Facility located in Hillside, Illinois called The Sanctuary.

Pastor Richardson has an extensive background in real estate, dating back to being employed by a major bank as a Properties Officer, overseeing office buildings in Chicago and New York, he was a Director at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange overseeing Facility Operations, and he was the first Facility Manager of the Harold Washington Library Building in downtown Chicago, employed by Tishman Management. Pastor Richardson and his wife Cynthia have been entrepreneurs for fifteen years, owning a variety of businesses from hair salons, dance studio clothing store, commercial cleaning, drywall, and painting business, and most recently general construction.

In the early 1990’s Pastor Richardson had severe heart problems and had to have a pacemaker implanted. Then on Lady Richardson’s birthday in 1996, he was admitted into the hospital and placed on the heart transplant list, where he stayed for 3 months. On November 11, 1996, he was preparing to renew his vows of another heart transplant patient while both in the hospital, he received the good news that a heart had been donated. Since receipt of the new heart Pastor Richardson’s ministry has taken a new direction, with unlimited power and authority, and his commitment to Christ is stronger than ever before. He lives to tell of the Good News of Jesus Christ. He’s been from wheel chair to running for the Lord, so when he says, “it’s good to be here”, he really means it.