Career
Veazey"s name was presented to the church in March 2005 by a joint council of church leaders led by the Council of Twelve Apostles, as the next Prophet-President. Delegates elected to a special World Conference of the church approved Veazey and he was ordained as the eighth President of the High Priesthood, Prophet, and President of the Church on June 3, 2005. Veazey has been a full-time minister in the church since 1983.
In April 2002, he was set apart as president of the Council of Twelve and assigned by the First Presidency as director of Field Ministries.
He has also brought support and leadership to Church Planting Ministries and Young Adult and Campus Ministries. His areas of ministry have included missionary and administrative work in the Southern United States of America Mission Field, the Africa-East Central Field.
The South Central and the East Central States Regions. The Division of Program Services, Outreach Ministries.
The North Central Region.
The Advanced Leadership Studies at World Church headquarters. And the African-American Ministries. Before 1983, Veazey was an executive minister to the Fremont, California congregation and was in charge of a missionary development project funded by the World Church for San Francisco Bay Stake.
He holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of Tennessee and a Master of Arts in religion from Park College.
On January 17, 2010, Veazey presented another document which became part of the Doctrine and Covenants. A very short message of inspired counsel was included in the President"s April 5, 2009 address to the church.
lieutenant is now included in the Doctrine and Covenants as section 164.
